(01-09-2025, 09:32 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(01-08-2025, 04:18 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: I get that new HC's often do have the option to come and decide who from prior staffs are kept/fired. 

However, if in the press conference where you announce you are firing the HC, the main reasons are 
- because your defense became the worse after the coordinator change and is now last in the league 
- you believe both your offense and defense are too predictable, and you want people to come in to be more unpredictable.

Then why on earth give the new HC the options to keep the coordinators in charge of those situations. 

Is there any situation where a new incoming HC would be able to convince Khan that that "Nielsen was set up to fail by the roster construction, and the offense's inability to stay on the field. He is actually a good DC and he will be totally different this year with a less predictable scheme"? 

If Khan had fired Pederson for clock management issues, the team quitting on him, or way too many penalties. If Khan had said, "we failed way too much on 3rd down and the red zone and we couldn't score in first halves," as reasons we needed to make a change. Then keeping quiet on Nielsen makes sense.

Listing the above as key reasons to turn the page, and then keeping quiet on the 2nd in charge of those reasons is a waste of everyone's time. Including an incoming HC that shouldn't have more put on their plate.

I think all of that hashes out in an entrance interview with the new HC whenever they are hired. You sit down with the DC, talk about what worked, what didn't, why for both, and what they envision for the future. If you are on board with the plan and see this as a guy you can work with, yay us we keep the guy around on the existing deal. If not, they bid them adieu and either bring in their dude or start interviewing candidates to bring in (if they aren't planning to call the D themselves).

There's no gain in firing him today, other than catharsis. Teams can ask us to interview him while he's under contract, but to my knowledge there have been no requests thusfar.

Okay in theory that makes sense. 

But for the Jags specific situation. We are talking about a DC who had little DC experience before '24. A team that had one of the worst defenses in the league. There are some advanced metrics that have them as the worst by at least 2 standard deviations. A DC who took more than half a season to stop running the same system that is his MO, but who was still predictable in blitzing even when he was forced out of man coverage.

You think a incoming HC is going to spend their capital on convincing the fanbase, the media, and the owner to keep that guy as one of their first acts on the job?

Unless you are thinking well, they can keep Nielsen but demote him to DLine coach?

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