POLL: Who Should Be The Chargers' Next Head Coach?

[ghost]

The current coaching market scares me. As does the open positions. Look at what is already open. HOU and ATL. If I'm a HC looking at the openings, I'd rather work for those owners than the Spanos clan. They will spend the money, stay out of the way, and set up coaches and GM's to succeed.

We'll be fighting the Jets over the scraps that are left over.

The thing with Eric Bieniemy and Dave Toub, you'll wait until the first week of February before your coaching candidate can begin in earnest. They slip their interviews in a bye week during Wild Card Weekend, but there's a waiting involved there.

[ghost]

(Wade Phillips) spent a lot of that time on the phone. He talked a little with the Browns about joining Kevin Stefanski’s staff, but they went with an old lieutenant of Phillips’s, Niners defensive backs coach Joe Woods, to be their coordinator. “He’s a good coach, and a really good guy,” Phillips said.

That’s left Phillips in California. But the plan, if he doesn’t land a job, is for he and his wife to move back to their permanent home in Houston, where they spent their last year off, too. So while he can, he’s spending as much time with his kids—Wes joined the Rams’ staff as tight ends coach last year, and daughter Tracy is an actress living closer to Los Angeles—and grandkids as he can, which is why he was at Wes’s house on Sunday.

“Wesley’s here, the grandkids are here and my daughter’s here. We finally got together this one year,” Phillips said. “It’s been really good that way. It’s the only time our family’s been together since Wes and Tracy were in high school. That’s been the good part of it.” - SI

[beachcomber]

The current coaching market scares me. As does the open positions. Look at what is already open. HOU and ATL. If I'm a HC looking at the openings, I'd rather work for those owners than the Spanos clan. They will spend the money, stay out of the way, and set up coaches and GM's to succeed.

We'll be fighting the Jets over the scraps that are left over.

David Shaw is a SoCal guy.... doubt he has much if any interest in living in Atlanta or 'specially Houston.

ps. these Stanford guys are pretty bright.... a good angle to ponder re: Cardinal recruiting challenges for Shaw.

[Boltjolt]

So, in other words, Deano is kind of like the captain of the Titanic--lives in fine style, eats in the first class dining room, but knuckles under to the pressure to run the ship at "full speed ahead" --oblivious to the repeated warnings about the danger of the looming ice field...Deano should have seen by now that there is something terribly wrong with this franchise, but he seems content to waltz through life making one hiring blunder after another...

To use a phrase you seem to love. ... Dean is like the Titanic.
Has decent money and in charge of a piece of the NFL fleet that is the Chargers but his teams usually sink.

[Boltdiehard]

Come on guys we passed on Reid, Rex Ryan and many others. Every time we go through this process and they hire somebody it’s a head scratcher and somebody very few saw coming. A guy like Wade Philips just makes too much sense. A top ten defense with Justin Herbert as the QB with great field position all year? No way. Not gonna happen

. :what:

[ghost]

In the last 5 years, Wade Phillips has gone to the Super Bowl twice and held two teams to a combined 23 points. (Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos and Super Bowl LIII with the Rams)

[ChargersPowderBlue]

Come on guys we passed on Reid, Rex Ryan and many others. Every time we go through this process and they hire somebody it’s a head scratcher and somebody very few saw coming. A guy like Wade Philips just makes too much sense. A top ten defense with Justin Herbert as the QB with great field position all year?

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This team's defense is not a top 10 defense. They aren't a top ten defense the way this team is currently constructed.

No one knew Andy Reid would turn out to be as good as he's become with KC. Rex Ryan was getting stale before the end of his run.

[Boltdiehard]

This team's defense is not a top 10 defense. They aren't a top ten defense the way this team is currently constructed.

No one knew Andy Reid would turn out to be as good as he's become with KC. Rex Ryan was getting stale before the end of his run.

Not to worry I’m sure they’ve already got their eye on the next Mike McCoy or Anthony Lynn. And the way Bradley uses players and runs this defense how can you tell?

The next HC will be another head scratching wtf moment.

[Classic]

This team's defense is not a top 10 defense. They aren't a top ten defense the way this team is currently constructed.

No one knew Andy Reid would turn out to be as good as he's become with KC. Rex Ryan was getting stale before the end of his run.

No one knew? No one knew a re-tread HC who had been to 5 NFC Championship prior to the Chiefs hiring would be good?
Chargers knew too but didn't want to share the power with a HC who knows what he is doing.

[Topcat]

To use a phrase you seem to love. ... Dean is like the Titanic.
Has decent money and in charge of a piece of the NFL fleet that is the Chargers but his teams usually sink.

LOL...Jolt, you just outdid me! Excellent simile!

[Bolt4Knob]

The last game Wade Phillips coached in 2019, Thanks to Wade's defense, Patriots took 53 minutes to get into the end zone for their lone TD.

The main reason Wade found himself without a job is he priced himself out of the market. Every year, with the Rams organization, Wade was coming out with a stellar defensive season, Wade got a pay bump. Wade became the highest paid defensive coordinator in the league. Rams then dumped Todd Gurley and in an organizational-shift, Sean McVay told had he was going with a young movement and Wade was out.

Now, Wade is IN LOS ANGELES and wants to work. He has learned salary doesn't matter and that life is work for some folks, especially football coaches.

Wade would be a pretty solid hire actually Probably would be able to keep at worst Pep Hamilton is as the OC/QB coach. Wade is smart enough on defense do find the right players. He would bring in a good staff.

I will add him to my list - move him up too:

Shaw
Wade
Toub
Pagano

[electricgold]

The last game Wade Phillips coached in 2019, Thanks to Wade's defense, Patriots took 53 minutes to get into the end zone for their lone TD.

The main reason Wade found himself without a job is he priced himself out of the market. Every year, with the Rams organization, Wade was coming out with a stellar defensive season, Wade got a pay bump. Wade became the highest paid defensive coordinator in the league. Rams then dumped Todd Gurley and in an organizational-shift, Sean McVay told had he was going with a young movement and Wade was out.

Now, Wade is IN LOS ANGELES and wants to work. He has learned salary doesn't matter and that life is work for some folks, especially football coaches.

73 years old.