Trgovac officially leaving

Another DL coach (while I'm trying to look up other coaches) and one with ties to Herm:

Tim Krumrie, DL Coach, Chiefs. He spent three years with Herm after spending over a decade with the Bengals. Two teams you think of when you think punishing defensive lines, right? Of course not. But Krumrie is such a technician-laden and tough coach, that he personally works out every defensive lineman at the combine himself. As in, he faces up to them (no pads) and whips some of them. If you have leverage issues, he finds them. If you have one good move, he'll exploit you. He's one hell of a coach and he expects the best out of situations where he hasn't always had much talent. He actually worked out USC linemen so hard at their pro day that he's banned from campus and pulled a tirade out of Pete Carroll.

Krumrie is also considered somewhat legendary by old-school standards for being a Pro Bowl NT, and some might remember his leg shattering in two places on national television against the 49ers. He's also the guy who injured Don Majkowski to start the Brett Favre era (Majkowski at the time was one of the recordholders for consecutive games played at QB)

 

I think that may be a significant factor as well. They figured if things go bad in 2009 the Panthers might fire the entire staff.

 

I really don't see that. To me, despite the gloom and doom, 12-4 probably buys Fox and whoever he wants around a couple more years unless there's some form of collapse, which I doubt.

 

wonder if they saw ownership was leaning towards bending to pamper Pepper's demands about schemes or whatever and said fuck it

 

I don't think there's much chance of that. I doubt Richardson would make those kinds of demands on Fox, and I certainly don't believe that Fox would accede to them regardless. Still, there would appear to be some compelling reason, as it's pretty unlikely that they all just decided to pick this same off-season coincidentally.

 

I don't really believe that either, just thinking through it

 

Just making reference to his "all the good coaches are gone" comment.

Read a while back how that combine drill got started. Krumrie had questions about a particular prospect's hand skills, so he walked over and started putting him to the test.

League guys were so impressed with the drill they made it a regular part of the combine. One team was so impressed with the young lineman's performance in the drill that they drafted him in the first round.

The young lineman's name: Jason Peter

The team: Guess who?

(wouldn't hold that against Krumrie though)

 

I saw Krumrie in action at Catawba College when they had a few guys invited to the combine. He beat the shit out of the two defensive linemen prospects - Lockhart and Peterson. I think Lockhart bounced around the NFL for a few years and they both played in NFL Europe.

 

They are trying to aviod a 7-9 or 8-8 season. Like in true Fox Fashion.

 

I think Collin is available to interview...but he's more of a Quarterback man.