If Gase and Olsen's roles were reversed last year I am sure the Raiders would still have the 32nd ranked offense and hiring Gase would then get the same negative response the Olsen hire is getting.


Olsen has more NFL play calling experience than any of the other candidates and his results typically meet or exceed roster expectations.


I would also rather have an older OC when I have a young inexperienced defensive minded coach. It is probably easier for Olsen to push back when Bradley tries to put his fingerprints on the offense. Hopefully Marrone's influence will help in this area as well.

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You should have made your screen name Jaguar-wocky...  

 

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You should have made your screen name Jaguar-wocky...

"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

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"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

... He chortled in his joy.

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I'm trying to make myself more informed and less opinionated.

Stop saying whatever stupid thing you're talking about and pay attention to all the interesting things I have to say!

... He chortled in his joy.

 

...Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

 

LOL

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If Gase and Olsen's roles were reversed last year I am sure the Raiders would still have the 32nd ranked offense and hiring Gase would then get the same negative response the Olsen hire is getting.


Olsen has more NFL play calling experience than any of the other candidates and his results typically meet or exceed roster expectations.


I would also rather have an older OC when I have a young inexperienced defensive minded coach. It is probably easier for Olsen to push back when Bradley tries to put his fingerprints on the offense. Hopefully Marrone's influence will help in this area as well.

 

Good points. 

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thats my thing, for marrone to work under greg olson is pretty impressive because marrone himself is a pretty well proven offensive mind.


olson alone may not be a home run hire, but the entire staff as a whole sounds like it has a lot of promise.

I couldn't agree more

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Doesn't the Assistant Head Coach make you second in command? I figured Marrone hire would lead to Bradley being head coach of defense and Marrone being head coach of offense; Bradley having the final say but ideally not getting involved. Am I reading into this wrong?

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Doesn't the Assistant Head Coach make you second in command? I figured Marrone hire would lead to Bradley being head coach of defense and Marrone being head coach of offense; Bradley having the final say but ideally not getting involved. Am I reading into this wrong?

 

Those add-on designations are often not much more than simply titles to either justify paying a position coach more - or just to give respect to coaches with HC experience that have taken a lesser role.  They don't always equate to a specific hierarchy.

 

Marrone will certainly have input, but I don't think he necessarily leapfrogs Olson because of that title.  He may be more involved than some OL coaches, but I don't know about being the "head coach of the offense." 

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The most important thing for this offense I'd to develop Bortles and Marrone should help the offensive line.

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But Koetter didn't improve the Falcons' offense, so...?

 

In 2011, they were ranked 10th overall. When Koetter was hired in 2012, they were ranked 8th overall. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that's a statistical improvement.

 

I'm not a fan of Koetter. I'm not a fan of Olson. 

 

I don't think, however, that his argument that Olson's 32nd ranked offense is a reason he'll fail here.

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I have mixed feelings about Olson. I don't hold anything against him about that joke of a stint he had here under Mularkey and Gene Smith's last year here in the front office. But I just don't feel comfortable with his background. If you're trying to build sucess on offense. I think you'd shy away from a guy that was apart of an offense that was equally, if not, worse than your offense from last year. He had one solid brief stint in St. Louis which got him noticied. However, seeing Josh Freeman's somewhat decent start in his career and then collapsing and regressing scared me a bit during his final year in Tampa Bay. Then you had him here for a minute, which again, not going to fault him for. That was just a bad year for everybody. And then of course he got praise for Derek Carr this year. However, Carr seemed to be more technically sound than the other rookie QB's in this year though. We'll see. We're going to know this year for sure. I know he likes to call a balanced game on offense as long as he's got the right players that can stay productive.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

Have you seen Jessica Rabbit lately? She's really let herself go.....

 

Can she pass block?

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Can she pass block?

I dunno. But she probably could clear the way to the buffet table.

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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot."

too funny !!

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