Defensive coordinator

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Originally Posted by NBT

Anybody think Mike Singletary might be on the chopping block out there in SF? If so do you think he might be receptive to come back to his hometown as our new defensive coordinator?

I called for us to go after him a few years ago then he got the top job in San Fran.

I think Singletary, John Fox and Marvin Lewis are the top guys on the list for next seasons defensive coordinator. Any one of which would be a nice addition as a DC.

BTW those are all 4-3 guys, well Singletary has run both a 4-3 and a 3-4 in his coaching career.

Of the 3-4 guys only Wade Phillips is really interesting to me.

[HPF Bob]

With the looming lockout, this is all conjecture. Plus, it remains to be seen whether a 5-11 or 6-10 season costs Kubiak his job and then those names become head coaching candidates, not DC candidates. I think the next head coach must DEFINITELY be a defensive coach to fix our troubled defense.

[barrett]

Singletary is a Defensive coach whose team is in the bottom half of the league defensively (22nd in yards, 18th in scoring). And that is while playing the terrible offenses in the NFC west twice each (STL #25, SEA #27, ARI #31).

If that is the performance he got when he set the personality of the whole team and had some personnell say, then I'm not very excited about him as a DC.

Likewise, Marvin Lewis has had a half a decade to put his hands on that team and they are giving up 26.5 ppg, just ahead of the Houston Texans. Carolina is at 26 ppg allowed.

[Keith]

Some guys are just cut out to be defensive coordinators instead of head coaches with defensive coordinator resumes. #DomCapers

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Originally Posted by Keith

Some guys are just cut out to be defensive coordinators instead of head coaches with defensive coordinator resumes. #DomCapers

Dom and Wade Phillips track records are they suck as head coaches and thier defenses sucked when they where head coaches, but look a their defenses when they where the guys running just the defense.

Heck look at what Gregg Williams did as a HC and then as a DC.

[barrett]

I just don't like a guy who was fired because his defense was terrible.

Phillips took over DC play calling last year and his defense was great. He had obvious issues with discipline and the role of head coach, but even in failure it was clear he could scheme a defense.

Capers always put a decent defensive product on the field here (and sometimes a really good one). His lack of offensive understanding got him fired.

Also, both guys had a long history of success as DCs. My point was that Singletary has never really shown that as a DC and showed nothing defensively as a HC.

Lewis obviously was successful as a DC, and Fox has done it as a head coach, but Singletary has no real coaching success at the coordinator level or the HC level.

[nunusguy]

Even now with a likely retention of Kubiak, at the same time it seems even more likely that Frank Bush is surely out, which brings in the issue of replacing him with a 4-3 guy or 3-4 guy ?
Along those lines, I was listening to local 610 radio yesterday as ND Kulu was talking about that subject and Marios potential role in a 3-4 D if that should
be what our Texans are operating out of next year. He says Mario would not be suitable as an OLB (totally agree wiith that), but also says he wouldn't be suited as a 3-4 DE basically because he would be underutilized (or words to that effect), and said moving him would be the best option if we could get a good deal for him ?
OK now see, I've heard many say that Marios "natural posion" is as a 3-4 DE ? He's practically the prototype guy in that scheme at that position ? And
with the increasing popularity of the 3-4 and demand for guys who can play that scheme, the price of lineman (and not just the nose tackle) is going up. For example the Chiefs in just the last couple years used their #3 overall on an LSU Dlineman to play for them in their 3-4.