(02-07-2018, 09:09 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(02-07-2018, 08:59 PM)Eye of the Storm Wrote: They may reach out to JDR for the HC job if they’re making that switch on defense. Wouldn’t surprise me.

I’m thinking this was a calculated move by the pats. What better way to get revenge on the franchise who blew the whistle on you and got your QB suspended? The pats basically pantsed the clots in front of the whole world and they’re probably going to get away with it. There’s no way anyone will be able prove it definitively either. The patriot way in a nutshell.

Well...it may make some sense for the Colts to reach out to JDR, but there's still the issue of the assistants.  If JDR wants his guys on his staff, what happens to the assistants?  Would JDR or any coach be forced to fire assistants he'd rather keep, or keep assistants he'd rather not?

As far as the revenge thing, when it comes to McDaniels, were this some sort of ploy to get revenge on the Colts, it would be very short sighted of him.  Suppose he is promised the Patriots job after Belichick leaves in another year or two, and then he's fired like most coaches?  I don't think he'd get another chance as a head coach in the NFL, and I don't think many teams would hire him as an assistant.  Such a move could rub colleges in the wrong way too, so even if he decides to not coach int he NFL after this, colleges might be reluctant to pull the trigger to hire him too.

I think that JDR would jump at the chance to take that job in its current state. Chances are he’ll end up firing half of his assistants after the first season whether he hired them or not. 

It may have been a shortsighted move by JMD, but he made $8mil at Denver. At 41 years old if he lives another 40 years that’s $200,000 a year to live on. If Robert Kraft put him up to it, I imagine he’s going to be well compensated hence the “sweetened deal”. JMD only has to have one owner in his corner and by the looks of it, Kraft is his man.

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