Grant and Danny
Are You Worried About Kliff Kingsbury Leaving After This Season?
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Cliff Kingsbury, who coached Caleb in college, is going to be mentioned, but I will say this with a red flag on the cliff thing. They interviewed Cliff Kingsbury eight hours last year to be the offensive coordinator with Caleb and chose Shane Waldron over him. Does that mean that he bombed his interview? Does that mean if they didn't like him for the offensive coordinator job, and they suddenly going to a year later be like, "Actually, you're our head coach. We'll see how that goes." That's the voice of Peter Schrager on NFL Network, who is very close with Cliff Kingsbury, and has said on air many, many times, they're very good buddies. So when he speaks about Kingsbury, he is going to couch it, I'm sure, as best he can, but you know that it's normally some variation of how Kingsbury feels about what's going on. So he points out, Danny, that an eight-hour interview didn't net me an OC job, is there some animus from Kingsbury toward the Bears for that? I mean, there's only 32 of these jobs, so I don't know how many grudges you want to hold. Yeah, I was going to say you can be Tom Petty about it. That's your prerogative, but you know, word gets out pretty quick, right? I mean, you stiff a couple people, you tell them no, you leave with the altar, you change your mind last minute, eventually people stop calling, or your reps are reps, right? My guess is the Bears want Ben Johnson, and if he takes the job, he'll be the head coach. And if that happens, I have a hard time believing Cliff Kingsbury leaves Washington, and maybe more accurately, Jaden Daniels, to go somewhere else. I just don't know that there's going to be a good enough situation to convince him to leave. That's just a hunch that's my own thought on this, but as long as Chicago's open, then that is a pretty darn good opening. They don't come along very often. The year after a guy goes 1-1, it looks like he might have a very long, prosperous career at quarterback in this league, if you're an offensive-minded, play-calling head coach. So the question for you guys is what's your level of concern or are you worried that Kingsbury walks? And if he does, would it be damaging? Or do you think they have enough in the building that they could just continue to perform offensively like they did this year in Daniel's second season? 800-636-1067. So I'm, whatever past concern is, I feel like he's leaving. So I'm kind of like, okay, let's do it with the reality. Wow. And that may be too far, but I think this is what happens. The iron's hot, you're as sexy as you're going to be, I think he goes. So in terms of what's left over, this is the billion dollar question, right? Because when you go and hire a Dan Quinn, you hire a defensive-minded head coach, etc, this is the risky run. Yeah, I didn't dislike Quinn as much as I dislike retread defensive-minded coaches and defensive And as the years gone on and Quinn's done a very good job and filled out a great staff, especially when they were seven and two, you know, everyone who wanted Quinn here is kind of doing their tap dance and their victory lap, and you're welcome to his at an outstanding season. He might be the coach of the year in the league, he deserves all the credit he's getting. My issue was never that they couldn't win with Dan Quinn or that they couldn't have a turnaround or he can't build a culture. My issue is you're going to be on an offensive coordinator carousel moving forward, which makes it really, really hard to win sustainably. And it's just why the defensive-minded hiring thing hasn't worked in this league over the last several coaching iterations. Yeah. I mean, there are exceptions. The most rare exception is Mike Thomas, like the third coach in Pittsburgh history, and their offenses have stunk until this year, right? And they haven't won in almost a decade. I love Tom when I would probably hire him first. I hired him to do any of that, honestly. And he's defensive-minded. But I bring him up to say him and Belichick, like that's the last time that someone defensive-minded was drafted, who has sustained winning over 10, 12 years, no matter who is calling place. And those guys were hired 20 years ago. And so to the, but to the point, the challenge then becomes how are you layering underneath them? Young guys like David Blau, who was in this league an hour and a half ago, all the way down to the bottom, then Ryan Johnson, a guy that was an OC, who would probably be the heir apparent in that role, then you've got to be the pitcher, and you've got a number of guys that hopefully would implement something similar because what's a, it's hard enough to be an NFL quarterback. To go from college to pros has claimed a lot of guys doing a, hey, let's do a new offense. Every single year thing is untenable. So the idea is we all are on the same page talking about now if I'm in the coaching room. Yeah. This is the offense we run. We run this offense. You can add your own personality and tweaks, but I don't want him to have to learn a new language every six months. Some learn this. This is what you, this is who we are. This is what we do. And again, if you've got a wrinkle, let's add the wrinkle, but we're not making up new terms that happen to learn a foreign language every hour, you know what I mean? It's hard enough to do this at a high level. Let's not complicate it for the kid, which means if it works, all our key cards work for as long as we want. So here's my only argument that the bothers me about. So Dan Quinn has said that he learned his lesson with Kyle Shanahan leaving. And I remember they had to replace Shanahan at all went sideways in Atlanta and he basically said we've layered the organization with enough guys now where we would be able, he hasn't said this, but this is the point to replace someone leaving. The problem I have with that logic is that that's what they had in Atlanta, by the way. In Atlanta, they had Kyle Shanahan, they had Mike McDaniel now with the dolphins. They had Matt La Floor now with Green Bay. Those guys were all on that staff. You know what happened when Kyle Shanahan got a head coaching job? He brought them with him. If Cliff Kingsbury loves Brian Johnson, why wouldn't he bring him with him? And now you get to go run the shop with me as my OC, right, in a bigger role than you have here. I guess because they have Jaden Daniels, the hope is that rather than going and coaching up Caleb or whoever, a guy would want to stay here. But at that point with Atlanta, all those coaches went to San Francisco where they didn't have a quarterback or L.A. soon thereafter with McVay, where they didn't have a quarterback or they had golf, I guess, but it was before Jared Goff was this Ben Johnson version of himself. But if you think about it that way, they left an MVP and Matt Ryan. They didn't say, I'm going to stay with this QB. So that's my argument against the whole, oh, he learned his lesson. They've got four guys in the building right now who could all be OCs of the future. Oh, you mean like exactly what he had in Atlanta and then they all leave when the offensive guy goes and gets a job because they're boys and you know, they work together hours and hours every day. Do I think someone would stay, of course, Brian Johnson to beat a pitcher? I don't think plow would be ready to be an OC, but that's the question is, what would that look like if Cliff left? Do you actually think it's worth worrying about at this point or do you think he ends up staying shop deals on gifts now on Amazon, like make up for the beauty lover electronics for the tech pro and even gift cards for the more, um, particular people in your life shop great deals now on Amazon. Do we really need another computer when it's faster, more powerful? 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How bad would it be for the Commanders if Kliff Kingsbury left for another head coaching job?