Quote:I want Coughlin in the mix here again. I would vastly prefer him as a coach. He wasn't stellar as a GM. I could see Caldwell staying on with significant player input from Coughlin.


I think there would be an instant turnaround.


As an additional morsel of food for thought, I could see TC trying to pry Dom Capers away from Green Bay.


It would make things interesting for sure.

I'm with you. There's already been an obvious link and news with Coughlin though so they aren't going to keep pumping stories about him until interviews/Gus actually gets fired happening. Feel like we're just getting a list of guys that are expected to be in the mix for us.

 

Coughlin, Mike Smith, Josh McDaniels...anyone else so far? 

 

Smith is obviously the lesser of the 3 there but I do like him. He's a veteran guy who has had success as a HC and turned around that TB D quickly and it's a pretty damn impresive unit now. Sure it had talent, but prior coaches couldn't get that out of them.

 

He's a bit down on my list but I certainly would prefer him to some inexperience guy that doesn't have a ton of upside. 

 

Coughlin, Patricia/McDaniels (I do get worried due to NE coaching tree in the past, but they are both very good candidates), Terryl Austin, and Jim Schwartz (I like this guy a lot...defensive guru and I think he had a rough shake out in Detroit. Got a buddy who is a huge DET fan that hated them for letting him out the door) are probably my top guys. Shanahan is interesting too.

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