Posted on 10 January 2012. Tags: Allen, Broncos', coaching, coordinator, Defensive Coordinator, Dennis Allen, Game, Job, McDaniels, meet, person, Rams, Ray Horton
Broncos coordinator Allen to meet with Rams
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on January 9, 2012, 9:58 PM EST
Well, here’s an unexpected development in the Rams head coaching search. They are interviewing a person else other than Jeff Fisher.
The Rams will interview Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen for their head coaching job on Thursday, according to Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Fisher is expected to choose among the Rams and Dolphins this week. The Dolphins have started interviewing candidates once more even though they wait for Fisher, and it appears the Rams are doing the same.
Possibly it’s a way to pressure Fisher to make a decision. Maybe it’s a sign the Rams are worried that Fisher won’t say yes to their offer you.
More most likely it’s just the Rams covering their bases. Cardinals defensive coordinator Ray Horton is the only other identified name that the Rams have met with about their leading job.
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Posted on 30 December 2011. Tags: Bill Belichick, choice, coach, coaching, contract, Could, Job, Josh Mcdaniels, McDaniels, move, O'Brien
With contract up, O’Brien could be on the move
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on December 29, 2011, 9:43 PM EST
There is a lot of drama surrounding Kansas City’s season finale, but Sunday’s game will quickly be forgotten in Kansas City in the days that adhere to.
The Chiefs want to locate a head coach. Speculation has centered around G.M. Scott Pioli possibly removing the “interim” tag from Romeo Crennel’s title.
Crennel would then require to add an offensive coordinator, with Josh McDaniels a most likely candidate. NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora believes another option could emerge.
Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien’s contract expires at the finish of the season. That essentially makes him a free agent and a person that could leave New England, even for a lateral move. La Canfora reports O’Brien is also expected to receive “overtures” to interview for head coaching gigs. (It’s doable he could interview for the Chiefs’ best job.)
The reality this news was leaked could be an indication that O’Brien is open to moving on. He’s still not the logical choose in Kansas City. Don Banks of SI.com hears by way of league sources that Pioli is expected to pair McDaniels with Crennel.
The thinking is that McDaniels could offer a lengthy-term head coaching selection, although Crennel, 64, handles the job in the short-term. McDaniels could use a few years to rebuild his reputation.
The Chiefs require to win consistently, of course, for that to happen. That hasn’t been an simple process for any Bill Belichick protege.
Coaches could leave New England, but Tom Brady isn’t going anywhere.
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Posted on 30 December 2011. Tags: Bill Belichick, coach, coaching, contract, Could, Job, Josh Mcdaniels, League, McDaniels, move, O'Brien
With contract up, O’Brien could be on the move
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on December 29, 2011, 9:43 PM EST
There is a lot of drama surrounding Kansas City’s season finale, but Sunday’s game will quickly be forgotten in Kansas City in the days that follow.
The Chiefs need to find a head coach. Speculation has centered around G.M. Scott Pioli possibly removing the “interim” tag from Romeo Crennel’s title.
Crennel would then need to add an offensive coordinator, with Josh McDaniels a likely candidate. NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora believes another option could emerge.
Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien’s contract expires at the end of the season. That essentially makes him a free agent and someone that could leave New England, even for a lateral move. La Canfora reports O’Brien is also expected to receive “overtures” to interview for head coaching gigs. (It’s possible he could interview for the Chiefs’ top job.)
The fact this news was leaked could be an indication that O’Brien is open to moving on. He’s still not the logical pick in Kansas City. Don Banks of SI.com hears via league sources that Pioli is expected to pair McDaniels with Crennel.
The thinking is that McDaniels could provide a long-term head coaching option, while Crennel, 64, handles the job in the short-term. McDaniels could use a few years to rebuild his reputation.
The Chiefs need to win consistently, of course, for that to happen. That hasn’t been an easy task for any Bill Belichick protege.
Coaches may leave New England, but Tom Brady isn’t going anywhere.
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Posted on 17 August 2011. Tags: coaching, coordinator, draft, enjoying, greatest x, Josh, Josh Mcdaniels, Lot, Matt Cassel, McDaniels, Nfc West, Radar, role, St Louis Post Dispatch, staff
While Josh McDaniels’ prized draft choose gets a lot of attention in Denver, McDaniels has quietly operated below the radar in St. Louis.
The Rams’ new offensive coordinator is busy attempting to teach his scheme to a new group of players and a coaching staff that he largely inherited. McDaniels sounds pleased to be out of the head coach spotlight for a bit.
“This has been great for me. We’re blessed to have the opportunity to function in this profession every day,” McDaniels said via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The group of guys and the coaching staff has produced this transition for me unbelievable. . . . Focusing on the offense, trying to get better on that side of the ball, coaching the quarterbacks is genuinely something I really like to do.”
It is some thing that McDaniels excels at. In St. Louis, he has a quarterback in Sam Bradford with more natural talent than two of his prior pupils Matt Cassel and Kyle Orton. The Rams have a deep, young receiver group without having a true No. 1 guy. That’s a setup that has worked for McDaniels in the past.
“I feel we’re having a lot of enjoyable. And I do not think you hear that word a lot in training camp,” McDaniels said.
We see McD as one of the biggest x-factors in the NFC. If he can bring about reasonable improvement to the Rams offense, St. Louis is the clear preferred in the NFC West.
If McDaniels can aid make the Rams offense really hazardous, St. Louis could be a genuine contender.
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Posted on 13 July 2011. Tags: bush bush, cheating, Chiefs, coach, dustin colquitt, finger, Getty, getty images, Haley, Images, index, Josh, Josh Mcdaniels, McDaniels, Punter, says, Spygate, thinks, Todd
Last season, after the Broncos beat the Chiefs for 1 of Denver’s rare wins given that beginning the 2009 season 6-, Kansas City coach Todd Haley’s post-game handshake with former Broncos coach Josh McDaniels was replaced with a pointed index finger.
Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt, appearing on the Vic & Gary show on 102.3 the Fan in Denver, offered an eye-opening explanation for the maneuver.
Haley, per Colquitt, thought McDaniels was cheating.
“I do not know if I can answer that within the locker room, but I know that it has something to do with the Spygate, the videotaping,” Colquitt mentioned. “All the stuff like that. And I think that Haley was like, ‘Listen, based on that game I can tell what you are doing, and you are cheating.’ . . .
“I feel it was just a culmination of rumors and [McDaniels] had been involved in that in New England possibly before, and so Todd was just type of saying, ‘Look, with the game program we had and what you guys already knew we were gonna do, this is’ . . . basically saying it was ‘bush, bush league.’”
Given the candor that players have been displaying of late, we’re type of beginning to like the lockout.
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Posted on 25 May 2011. Tags: aid, Bradford, conspiracy theorists, Could, from, getting, Getty, getty images, help, Images, Jim Thomas, Josh Mcdaniels, McDaniels, quarterback, St Louis Post Dispatch, support
After the lockout began, some (such as us) speculated that Rams quarterback Sam Bradford could understand new offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels’ offense with the help of unemployed (for now) Ben McDaniels, who also happens to be Josh’s brother.
With Bradford, the 2010 offensive rookie of the year, becoming coy about the persons with whom he’s working to learn the Josh McDaniels offense, Rams guru Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch hinted during a recent on the web chat that there may be some merit to such ruminations.
“This is one rare occasion where I wouldn’t necessarily dispute the conspiracy theorists,” Thomas wrote in response to the question of no matter whether Ben McDaniels is quietly working with Bradford.
Though the lockout rules avoid Bradford from working with Josh McDaniels, absolutely nothing prevents Bradford from working with Ben McDaniels. Even if, as Thomas believes, Ben McDaniels will eventually be hired by the Rams to work as an assistant coach.
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Posted on 28 March 2011. Tags: coach, Coach Steve, Josh Mcdaniels, Louis Post Dispatch, McDaniels, Ocoordinator, Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks Coach, Rams, serve, St Louis Post Dispatch, Steve Spagnuolo
Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo confirmed to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday that he will not hire a quarterbacks coach, meaning new offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels also will serve that role in 2011.
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Posted on 20 January 2011. Tags: Brady, Coach Steve, Commodity, coordinator, Denver Broncos, Fantasy Analysis, Free Agent, hire, Josh, Josh Mcdaniels, Kyle Orton, McDaniels, Mvp, New England, Nfl Rams, offensive, Offensive Coordinator, Offensive Minds, Organization, Patriots, Rams, Rams Head Coach, St Louis Rams, Steve Spagnuolo, Steven Jackson, Super Bowl
On Tuesday, former Denver Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels agreed to become the St. Louis Rams’ offensive coordinator.
“I’ve always recognized that he is one of the top offensive minds in the NFL,” Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo said of McDaniels. “We think he is a great addition to our organization.”
McDaniels, only 34, will be charged with helping quarterback Sam Bradford reach his full potential. McDaniels’ past with quarterbacks should have Bradford very optimistic about his own future. McDaniels was the offensive coordinator in New England from 2006 to 2008. He ran the dominating offense that brought the undefeated Patriots to Super Bowl XLII. The next season, he helped Matt Cassel transform from an unknown backup to a very valuable free agent. And before being fired in Denver, Kyle Orton was on the way to the best season of his career and was even involved in some early MVP discussions. FANTASY ANALYSIS: Right now, McDaniels is not a head coach. But he knows NFL offenses, especially quarterbacks. Bradford’s not going to produce like ’07 Brady next season; the offense should still run, so to speak, through Steven Jackson and the organization needs to upgrade its receiving corps through the draft. But given what McDaniels has done with his previous subjects, this is an indication that Bradford will be a very valuable fantasy commodity sooner rather than later.
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Rams please get fisher, I dont want him coaching my Fins. Plus why would he want to operate for our dumb ass owner. Wish we got Jim Harbaugh last year, Go Phins 2012!
He’s actually going to have a job interview the Thursday before a playoff game in Foxboro?
That’s a Saturday 8pm game. There’s no way Allen would fly to StLoo on Wednesday for a job interview on Thursday while prepping for a playoff game on Saturday.
Maybe or perhaps this is what the Rams said they had been going to do.
It’s named “Plan B”.
Tebow needs coaching stability. Denver far better hope he flops in his interview.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Mr. Fisher’s arogance results in him obtaining neither of the two jobs?
Not quite intelligent of the Rams to have not of interviewed numerous candidates by now. But then once again, it is the Rams
Have the Rams met with any minority candidates to satisfy the Rooney rule?
This is what occurred:
Kroenke doesn’t want to admit he made a mistake with McDaniels as O-coordinator.
So McDaniels makes a deal with Kroenke: I’ll leave on my own with no you firing me IF you interview Denver’s D-coordinator Allen.
McDaniels produced Kroenke interview Allen to mess up Denver’s preparation for Tom Brady and McDaniels’ offense in NE.
This makes McDaniels look good again.
I’m just jk-ing but this would be funny if it were correct!
@ mrplow3
yeah, Tebow needs the defensive coordinator for coaching stability
come on now
He would have his interview in Denver, just like they did with Fisher.
Fisher flew to Denver following leaving St Louis. Perhaps to hire a defensive coordinator?
The Ray Horton interview took care of the Rooney Rule requirement.
As a Dolphins fan the far more time goes by the more I don’t want Fisher. This dude is just playing the program I thought he had prospective but I think he’s going to end up hurting one team a lot by generating them wait for him to say no. Really arrogant for someone with no rings…..
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Shhh! That is forbidden speak. Everytime I bring it up my comment gets erased.
@mustardo did you read the write-up? They interviewed Ray Horton. If you don’t know who he is, google him.
habsman says:
Jan 9, 2012 10:13 PM
Wouldn’t it be funny if Mr. Fisher’s arogance outcomes in him getting neither of the two jobs?
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I hear that it’s achievable from a source close to the scenario that Fisher thinks possibly McKenzie will fire Jackson and then Fisher will be able to wear black like he did with the Bears when he worked for Buddy Ryan while Rex was a kid so I feel he’s going to the Eagles to be DC there once again…
I don’t know that Dennis Allen is qualified to be a HC. Appears like the Rams are attempting to interview anybody just to put pressure on Fisher. Allen is the only they could get.
Or perhaps he will get hired on the spot Thursday, the Patriots will request permission to speak to him and the Rams say ok. The Patriots hire him Saturday morning and get the rest of the information that McHoodie couldn’t offer? Belichick had this planned all along, proper Patriot haters?!?!?
Who cares.
finsfrenzy says:
Jan 9, 2012 ten:35 PM
As a Dolphins fan the much more time goes by the far more I don’t want Fisher. This dude is just playing the method I believed he had potential but I feel he’s going to finish up hurting one team a lot by generating them wait for him to say no. Very arrogant for someone with no rings…..
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He has a ring. He was on IR with the Bears, his last season as a player. That’s when he began coaching for Ryan…