About halfway through the 2019 NFL season, one head coach has already been fired (Jay Gruden), and several more are on the hot seat. With that in mind people’s attentions are starting to turn to the next crop of head coaches, and it should be a pretty busy carousel this offseason. The league has begun their annual process of internally identifying top head coach and general manager candidates, and a committee will meet again in Week 11 to come up with a list, sources told Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports. La Canfora notes that Stanford coach David Shaw has been “receiving ringing endorsements and has very strong support within the league,” although he has rebuffed NFL advances in the past.
La Canfora also highlights several current NFL assistant coaches who have already talked about heavily. Interestingly, he identifies some potential new general manager candidates who we haven’t heard as much about. La Canfora writes that there is “heavy support” for fired Giants GM Jerry Reese to receive another job. “Former Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland, former Raiders GM Reggie McKenzie and former Lions GM Martin Mayhew are also generating support from the committee,” La Canfora writes. He also throws out ESPN analyst Louis Riddick as someone who is highly regarded, and we’ve heard those same rumblings before.
Here’s more from around the league:
- Miles Sanders has played a big role for the Eagles this season, and he racked up 73 yards in their win over the Bears on Sunday. Apparently, as the rookie revealed to the media earlier this week, he almost ended up in Chicago. “I thought I was going to end up there,” Sanders said of the Bears, who didn’t have a pick in April’s draft until the third round, via Zach Berman of The Athletic. “They knew I was probably going to be gone before the third round, but they were also talking about trading up to get me,” he said. The Penn State product was the second running back taken in the draft, and the Bears ended up nabbing David Montgomery in the third round. Sanders has been a part of a timeshare backfield with Jordan Howard so far.
- Jets running back Le’Veon Bell surprised everybody by saying the Steelers called about trading for him at the deadline, and ESPN’s Adam Schefter confirmed they did. Not so fast says Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin, who replied “not to my knowledge, no,” when asked if the Steelers tried to acquire Bell, per Mark Kaboly of The Athletic (Twitter link). It’s possible the truth lies somewhere in between, and the most likely scenario is that the Steelers made an exploratory phone call but never got at all serious about it. Bell coming back to the city he started his career in would’ve at least made a dull trade deadline a lot more interesting.
- In case you missed it, the Seahawks apparently thought about adding Antonio Brown before claiming Josh Gordon off waivers.
Bears, swap Trubisky and a 3rd round and 7th for Dalton.
Bears get a decent QB. Bengals get to restart at QB and should pick Tagovialoa in the draft and also get a third and 7th round pick and Trubisky.
Bengels get rid of Daltons salary and instead ends up Mitchs near expiring one and picks.
Perfect, that will definitely get Nagy fired.
I must have missed the part where the Bears get a “decent QB”
Dalton is decent he just plays for a bad team. With the bears o line and that defence he would be fine. He throws good yard every game and has been sacked the second most of all QBs whereas Mitch gets sucks and has had 10 less sacks. He was a 3 time pro bowler.
Even a decent QB can’t help when your allowing the opponents to run up a time of possession of 40 minutes as the Eagles did. The Bears still have a glaring weakness at the kicker position to address too.
When your offense can’t get positive yards on 1st down, how are you going to keep the ball?
You realize the Bears OL is porous at best?
Or the Bears wait and get him for a mid round pick in the offseason.
Wait, so you think Dalton is worth a 3rd plus a 7th plus a comparable QB? That’s got to be one of the worst trades I’ve ever seen. If he were so good, why can’t he keep his job on a winless team?
the Bengals are a winless mess and want to see what they have in the kid they drafted. Dalton is comparable to Trubisky? LOL
You obviously haven’t paid attention to the nfl for the last decade
They are comparable in the fact they are both below average. Also, Dalton isn’t the answer for the Bears. Moreover, I was alluding to the fact he’s not worth a third rounder when they could wait to sign a FA QB and/or draft another one with that same pick. They need to get out of the habit of trading picks to start with
Not to mention he’s $11M more and his last year on contract is 2020. So you’d trade a 3rd for one year of Andy Dalton?
If anything, the picks would go the other way due to the salary they would have to take on, assuming they have cap space for next season.
More like the bears get dalton cin’s third and seventh for a bike pump to inflate footballs
Dalton?? Really? The standards of my Bears fan brethren have sunken to an all-time low. So sad what this franchise has become the last 20 years. No end in sight either. The McCaskey family have turned the franchise into a heaping pile, and they don’t seem to mind.
Stanford coaches do well after they leave, unless they go to Ann Arbor.
Hehehehe……..go Buckeyes!
Reggie McKenzie definitely deserves another shot at GM…Chucky made him the fall guy and through him under the bus.