RiverDog wrote:Most of the Mora hiring was Ruskell's, but Paul Allen had to sign off on it, and rarely did he grant complete authority on decisions like that.
My point was that unless a team has a heir apparent on their staff as we did with Ruskell and the Niners did with Seifert when Walsh retired, most teams do not have a well thought out plan in place when they fire a coach. I'm sure that they play a 'what if' mental game with themselves from time to time, but they don't know exactly who might want to come here and who would be available. No one's going to conduct a search during the season while everyone's busy.
I don't know much about these particular candidates, and neither do you or anyone else. This isn't like a player who is a free agent or a college prospect where there's a well-documented book on them for everyone to see. So much of what makes a good coach goes on behind the scenes, and Johnson and McDonald are complete mysteries to us. But I do know some coaches, like Harbaugh, and some types of coaches that I don't want, like college coaches with little or no NFL experience, simply because there's a track record on them and the differences between the two sports are well known.
Horsecrap. We know plenty about them and how their units perform and what their coaching experience is. It is just like a player or prospects where you can vet their resume and hire them based on performance. You're the only one that thinks a mystery is better than a proven performer like Jim Harbaugh. Hiring a head coach is no different than any other type of job in that you want a candidate with a strong resume of proven performance, a bunch of recommendations, and a clear and proven plan for being a head coach. This isn't as much of a mystery as you seem to want to think it is.
You didn't want Harbaugh for purely personal reasons you don't want to admit to. I don't have any interest in listening to your claims otherwise. You and
c-bob didn't want Jim Harbaugh because you personally don't like man.
He's a better coach than any of these candidates and it will show up on the field. Jim Harbaugh is a better coach than Mike MacDonald, Ben Johnson, Mike Vrabel, or Dan Quinn. The guy checks all the boxes for what you want in a head coach other than I guess likeable by certain members of the fan base who want to have coach they I guess have to like.
Man has developed multiple QBs. Knows how to build an offense. Knows how to motivate a team. Knows how to manage a defense. Has good coaching contacts for his team. Even Mike MacDonald coached for Jim Harbaugh as his DC before coming back to Baltimore. Jim Harbaugh is a hell of a head coach. The fact you think he's some kind of risky mystery is more a testament to your inability to see a quality head coach over your personal biases. I got no time for that trash thinking while you're claiming a rational decision making process for a head coach out of the other side of your mouth when that isn't a congruent with a winning philosophy which would cause one to want the best head coach available. That's what I want.
So after Harbaugh, the next tier based on resume is Dan Quinn or Vrabel. Then someone like a Mike MacDonald or a coordinator with a good track record for coaching units, developing talent, and performance. It isn't a mystery. You can pretend you don't know much about these folks because you don't base your assessments on performance, but I'm going to be looking at the coaching history of any hire we have and basing my excitement based on the performance of their units, their coaching tree, and if no head coaching experience just having to trust that John has thoroughly vetted their plan and ability to make the next step up to being a head coach.
That's how you hire someone. Not walking around pretending these things are mysteries or unknowns, but the same way you'd hire a good employee or manager at any job: a resume with proven coaching experience with recommendations.