Posted on 01/07/2020 7:38:54 AM PST by C19fan
Former Baylor head coach Matt Rhule is finalizing a deal to become the next Carolina Panthers head coach, according to Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel. He succeeds Ron Rivera, who went 76–63 in nine years with the team.
Rhule was was expected to interview with the New York Giants for their respective vacancy but never met with the team's front office. The Cleveland Browns were also interested in Rhule.
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Hoodie boy? Looks more like a little league coach.
He WINS everywhere he goes.
And Belichick looks like a hobo.
He’s done okay...
Does anyone still believe that NFL head coaches (MLB managers, for that matter) are autonomous and call their own plays, or write their lineups? They’ve all become slaves to analytics and the nerds who text them in plays, pitches during a game. McCarthy in Dallas will do no better than Garrett based on Jerry Jones and his meddling.
Mike McCarthy hired Mike Nolan to be DC at Dallas. I remember when Nolan coached the 49ers he wore suits in honor of his father Dick who was also a head coach of the 49ers. Nolan might have looked nicer than Ruhle or Belichick but was a failure as a head coach.
Precisely my point.
Belichick is like an autistic football coach.
Just let him coach and leave him be.
Spurrier comes to mind.
Saban also.
But seriously, hats off to the guy, he's brought Baylor back from the brink.
Owners just might have to accept the fact that he dresses funny. :)
And then Gase orchestrated the ouster of the GM - after the draft and free agency. I can't figure out what sort of voodoo this guy uses to get / keep such power in the NFL. He is famous for being Peyton Manning's offensive coordinator ... come on. Manning was the real OC and everyone knew it. Easiest job in football which he parlayed into a season a very mediocre offensive coordinator performance for the Bears which he parlayed into an objectively terrible head coaching performance for the Dolphins and now the Jets.
One of those coaches where if you look at their actual resume you find one minor thing that's not actually all that special that has carried them for half a decade.
Who wouldn't have to drive far...
Ruhle was scheduled to have an interview with the Giants today, and the Panthers hired him before he could even get on a plan to New York.
The sports radio guys are describing this as a devastating setback for the Giants, but I'm not sure why he even would have been their #1 choice to fill their head coaching vacancy. Ruhle has to be bought out of his Baylor contract, and the rumor is that this will cost at least $15M. So the team that hires him will have to pay him something like $6M to $8M per year to coach the team, plus the cost of the buyout. And in the case of the Giants, they still have to pay their LAST coach for the next three years, too -- to the tune of somewhere around $4M to $6M per year.
People must remember the stellar job McDaniels did coaching Denver ...not
The NYG are in a state of free fall. The ownership/mgmt suck. The Giants will end up with fired empty suit, Red Garret.
They have an unusual ownership arrangement where two different groups -- the Mara and Tisch families -- each own 50% of the team. It's a legacy of the original ownership under Tim Mara in the 1920s. He left his team to his two sons, and his grandson Tim sold his half to Steve Tisch in 1990.
The whole arrangement is a recipe for disaster, and most of the franchise's problems over the years can be attributed to the challenge of running a business like this.
Joe JUdge is coming to NY...
Ruhle supossedly called the Giants to ask if they were still interested befored he signed his contract... Giants declined.
That’s the first I’ve heard of that, and it makes a lot of sense from the NYG side. No way in hell should they be making an enormous commitment to a guy who has no NFL head coaching experience.
couldn’t agree more...
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