Henning Out...

agreed, those would be the first three that would come to mind for me, too. Of course, I guess it ends up being who was responsible for the units that were worst (and therefore possibly the ones who were in charge of shaping the personnel/deciding the personnel) that caused what happened to happen.

 

I doubt their plan was to pick three coaches to fire.

 

well, no, of course not, and certainly, I don't think that was what HB intended to state.

 

Maybe not but saying "If I was going to fire three coaches" kind of ignores the fact that they thought there is a problem that needed to be fixed and not just a change needed to be made for the sake of change.

Of course I am giving them the benefit of the doubt becuase if they caved to pressure and didn't actually think this was best for the team then that's a whole seperate issue. If that was the case I would question whether it isn't actually Fox that needs to go.

 

New York Post had a blurb saying the Panthers don't have permission to interview Pope.

Possible the initial report was just speculation, perhaps?

 

Maybe the Panthers requested permission and were turned down. Clayton may have assumed too much.

Ken Zampesee is coming in, though. The RHH has it.

 

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/SPORTS01/701170394/1042/SPORTS

"Notes: Special-teams coordinator Mike Sweatman is rumored to be ready to retire, but Mara said he hasn't been informed of that yet. ... Mara also denied a report that said the Panthers had asked permission to speak to tight-ends coach Mike Pope, one of the most valued members of Coughlin's staff. "That's the first I've heard of it," Mara said. ... Still no word on a new defensive coordinator, though former head coach and Coughlin assistant Dom Capers was expected to sign a three-year, $8 million deal to remain the Dolphins' defensive coordinator. "That's going forward, but let's let this be Jerry's day," Coughlin said."

 

they can deny permission, sure. Any non-head coach hire can, by the rules, be denied permission. That keeps you from stashing an OC type as QBs coach (Andy Reid) and putting an administrator type assistant as an OC title (Gil Haskell, Sherm Lewis, Maurice Carthon, and so on), but keeps the promising guys from taking a natural ascension upward.

I'm disheartened that we wouldn't get to speak to him about it, I feel like he could've been a good candidate.

 

I thought a team could only deny another team speak to a coach if it was for a lateral move (like Panthers asking to interview Cam Cameron or some other OC) but you couldn't say no if it was moving up (OC -> HC or something like that)

 

it used to be you needed permission for lateral moves, then the teams started getting creative (assistant head coach, etc) so they made the rule umbrella all assistants