Payton Holds Extended Talks with Saints

I also heard Mike Mularkey is resigning in Buffalo. One more HC spot open.

I don’t get the McCarthy thing at all. Is the idea to talk Favre into coming back for one more year or to mentor Aaron Rodgers (since Favre says he won’t)? Since McCarthy left SF, I wonder what happens to Alex Smith. Will he turn into another Ryan Leaf?

Would they want Payton to resurrect Brooks’ career? I had been hearing that they were giving up on him and going to ship him out or let him walk. If they get Leinart or Young I would think they wouldn’t even bother with Brooks. They also drafted that Adrian McPherson guy as I recall, but I haven’t heard anything since the draft as to if they kept him or cut him.

I also wouldn’t blame McCarthy leaving the Saints for Brooks’ difficulties last season. He seemed very distracted by the off the field problems and Haslitt did too. Also, not having Deuce McAllister had to affect him because they had to pass so much in come from behind situations.

Yeah, Sterling, it seemed like a stretch to me, but they were looking for every possible way to portray the McCarthy hiring as the only obvious choice in the Packers’ press. I think a lot of people up there were surprised by the speed and identity of the hire.

I wonder how they’ll spin it if Favre retires anyway after this and Rodgers falls on his face. They’ll probably try to blame Sherman.

some news agency reported Maurice Carthon is the leading candidate for NO after his interview.

Mularkey gone too…….how many openings is that now 10?

Sterling,

Even assuming that the Saints draft either Leinart or Young, they are going to want a veteran around to start the season. [If they take Young, maybe a couple of seasons. Steve McNair pretty much sat on the bench for two seasons. Young might need to do the same.] McPherson was a rookie 5th-round draft pick. There is no guarantee that he would be able to take over the starting reins in 2006 (or ever). Brooks may have regressed, but he is still a starting NFL quarterback, who is already on their roster. It would be helpful if someone like Payton could get Brooks’ game back on track, at least until someone else is ready to take over.

Mr. Bill:

I wasn’t saying what the Saints should do with Brooks, I was only repeating what I had been hearing about him and his future with the Saints. The talk when they sat him down on the bench at the end of last season was that he had played his last game with the Saints. My understanding was that it wasn’t related to his performance. I guess he said or did something that rubbed the powers that be the wrong way and they had enough. I could personally care less if they keep him or not, I was only repeating what I had heard and relating that to what Payton’s role might be with the Saints if he gets the job. If they hire him the reason would undoubtedly have more to do with making either Leinart or Young successful in the NFL and not to try to resurrect Brooks’ career.

What still remains to be seen, is how many lower level coaches are shifted around the league…and here is where the Cowboys will have to be on top of potential replacements and additions to it’s current staff…

CCBoy:

When you consider that quite a few of the new HC’s are going to want to clean house and bring their own guys in, there should be a lot of good talent available at the assistants level. I think Rafael is already tracking a few of the possible O-Line coaches that might be available, like the O-Line coach from KC.

Mickey Spagnola is quoted as saying that Jerry Jones believes that all assistant coaches will be re-signed. There were 4, whose contracts were up. Joe Juraszek (our strength and conditioning coach) has already signed a new two-year contract, leaving 3 unnamed coaches to re-sign. Jones apparently did say that one coach might be reassigned to different duties.

Of course, this is all conditional on both of our coordinators returning. If one of them gets one of the head-coaching jobs, many changes would be forthcoming. In addition to replacing whoever gets a new job, that new head coach might raid our staff for his own assistants.

Myself, I strongly would like a new offensive line coach, matched with an altered offensive grouping…if you are going to have two very large, yet very long toothed offensive guards, why in the world would you have those two do area blocking and doing what a much younger and lighter offensive guard would be doing? Their strength is a man on man blocking technique…

I wonder if Bruce Coslett is available? I loved his zone blocking schemes. His tenure was kind of a Pax Romana of Cowboys success.

Cha’Ron Dorsey, Aaron Gibson, Matt Lehr, Solomon Page… man, those were the days. [wistful sigh]

joey2zs,

While many yearn for the good old days, you have taken that yearning to a new level! Unfortunately, that level is in a subbasement of a slum tenement in Newark!

:)

Nice parody of the longings for a return to the Jimmy Johnson regime.

Hilarious…just be careful what you yearn for!!

Predict neither Payton or Zimmer will be hired — their lights did not shine enough this season even though they stood under the brighter light of Parcells. Saints et al would have snatched them up by now. Its like Olympic skating — the last skater always gets inflated points —the last interviewers with the last teams are going to score higher.