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Danny Langsdorf to the Giants

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Hearing it’s a done deal.

So how about we discuss some replacements from both NFL and college. I wouldn’t oppose giving Brent Brennan a shot.

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Please someone hire Banker, please someone hire Banker, please someone hire Banker, please someone hire Banker……………………………………..

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  1. I was just going to say too bad we weren’t proactive about going after Jonathan Smith. Now he’ll probably just promote cavanaugh or something.

  2. As I said in the previous thread, Riley will likely do his water routine and find the easiest path. That means Locey. Or that means we go a slightly less easy route and yet again hire Linfield’s Joe Smith. I’m okay with Smith if not for the fact that he’s someone different. And he has experience as a DC, which I think rounds him out as a coach.

    But I have a certain name in mind.

      • Yet another promotion from within in the Pac?

        Easy is as easy does.

        I like Brennan just fine. And I love his recruiting energy. Would he instantly balance the offense? Would he bring a proven competitive spirit to the job?

        I wouldn’t bet against him. But I want certain things that are known about the new OC. I want him to be a fit. I want him to be known as a coach who values the family atmosphere in a team. I want a coach who is so damn competitive it oozes from his players each and every week.

        Like I said, I wouldn’t bet against Brennan having those capabilities. If there are deficiencies in his tenure thus far, maybe that’s due to Riley/Langs beating his pupils to death in terms of scheme. But I want someone who has a wholistic view in charge of this offense for once. I don’t need o be asking questions about whether or not my new OC is just toeing the HC’s line.

          • He should bring in somebody from outside. Too much inbreeding on this staff. It’s like a town picnic in West Virginia. We need an infusion of new ideas.

          • That was my point.

            We need someone who is dedicated to beating down the opposition with a balanced attack and has proven he knows how to do so. He also needs to be proven. That’s what a Pac position requires. We need someone proven and hard.

            No offense to Brennan, but he has a couple years of being a proven OC on the non-BCS level before I accept him as someone worthy of my team’s OC position.

            He might succeed here as the OC given that it’s really Riley calling the shots. But since Riley has come out and said he sucks at calling the shots, doesn’t it make sense that OSU would go outside and find someone who was proven to be successful in this task?

    • Do Brennan, Brasfield, or Perry ring a bell? Those weren’t easiest path hires and all were home runs. Don’t let facts get in the way of being such a Debbie Downer.

  3. On a side note, I think what Coughlin has done with the new offensive coaching hires is pretty brilliant stuff. I still like Langs as a QB coach who could do some damage in the future if he ever broadened his vision. Now he gets to do that broadening thing.

    • I hadn’t thought of that.

      Mannion would be an excellent fit for the NYG as the back-up for a couple years.

      Say what you want about Mannion. His abilities are NFL quality. All it takes is for him to be there in his mind. Sitting behind a solid QB and learning the game is what almost all great QBs have done.

      The NFL will not go to a running QB scheme. The athletes on D are just too big and strong for anyone to reasonably buy an umpteen million dollar contract only to watch it waste away in a poor slide or an attempt to get a couple extra yards. They have about a four year window to get a team wrapped around a QB who scrambles, then it all falls apart. And that’s just for the one or two QBs who can even do that beyond college. Mannion has an innate ability to move within the pocket. That can make him deadly on the college level and more than proficient on the next level.

      We may see both in our lifetimes.

  4. Didnt Erickson get demoted at Utah last month from his OC job? Thought he was miffed about that and he likes him some Corvallis. Would he work under Riley? Are we all hoping for some new blood instead?

  5. Neuheisel is an interesting name. Great recruiter…he’d help a ton there. Not sure he’d even consider Corvallis, though. He’s a big city guy.

  6. This is good news indeed!

    I think Leipold is the most interesting candidate and agree somebody from outside would probably be healthy for the program. It appears to me that Leipold is comfortable in smaller environments, and I imagine the “family atmosphere” at corvallis would be attractive to him. I would love BDC to contact him and see if the step up to DI would be attractive enough reason, and Corvallis a good setting, for him to move. The guy has nothing left to prove at that level or at that school. Ideally, after OC, he’d become a HC candidate.

    I expect Brennan would bring a great deal of energy and competitiveness, but I wonder if its of the intensity Jack writes?I agree – SOMEBODY on staff has to have that. Schnell and others say Riley has that competitiveness and it eats at him to lose and we don’t appreciate it or understand it, but Riley himself has said it’s not just about winning, and if it is, you have to go to USC or Alabama…. I remember when Chow was OC and USC was rolling; he was a cold-blooded surgeon; dialing up the next series after scoring on a big play, not celebrating, wanting more. I’d like to see someone like that.

    I wonder about Brennan’s strategic approaches, including in-game adjustments, but there’s no body of work(?) upon which to judge that aspect of his coaching capacity.

    Will riley take as much time as he did hiring Perry?

    Good news, good news. A few impressive recruiting surprises would add nicely to this off season development, but I won’t hold my breath.

    Is anybody going to contact BDC and tell him about Leipold?

  7. BTW, is Langs going to an extreme change in environment or what? Laid back Riley, Corvallis, water balloon fights, 6-win season goals, friendly beat writers like Schnell….now New York. Maybe as QB coach he doesn’t get a lot of media inquiries or pressure, and the team will obviously have staff to manage media, but what a change…

  8. Damn. A great hire would have been Bob Bostad, the former run game coordinator and O-line coach at Wisconsin. Just hired yesterday by the Titans as their O-Line coach.

  9. Doesn’t anyone think that it will likely be Locey? That is my best guess. Wasn’t he a successful head coach? I’ve heard talk that he will replace riley.

    • Yup… the old boy’s network giveth for once. So why not assume the old boy’s network will immediately taketh away?

      It’s what I expect because it’s lazy and short-sighted.

      Hey! Why don’t we just promote Gary Beck? If nothing else, I would love to be at the first practice just to see what Beck would say to Cav and his potty mouth. Oh Gary, you prude you.

    • Not sure if Riley is capable of it but, this was one of my first thoughts. It seems like Riley is constantly touting the offers that his staff receives (but they choose to stay). It seems like college OC to pro QB coach isn’t much of a jump. Why take the risk? I wonder if Riley basically told Langsdorf to take the next good job he is offered because he doesn’t want to fire him.

      • The options:

        A. It isn’t true.

        B. Riley has been setting up these dominoes for a while knowing Gilbride would resign and McAdoo would be hired. Then he said, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

        C. About a week after Gilbride resigned… and about a week before McAdoo was hired… Riley found out from sources that McAdoo would indeed be the front-runner for the NYG OC job. Having evaluated the offense at OSU and seeing that it has been stagnant for several years now despite identifying weaknesses from four and five years ago and addressing them with upgraded personnel, Rlley finally saw that a change needed to be made. No matter how good Langs is or isn’t, a fresh perspective is seen as necessary. So he talks to Eggers and falls on the sword for Langs. Then he works the old boy’s network to get Langs the new job, giving him the highest of recommendations and pointing to the conveniently recent and public seppuku he performed over play-calling duties.

        • Seems to me if Riley could orchestrate B or C, he would game plan better. But then, the personnel are “family” and the game, just a game….

  10. I just had a “DUH!” moment.

    Kevin Gilbride is available. He can come settle down in Corvallis and hang out with his sister. I’d be willing to bet he can recruit a little just by walking into a house with two rings on and saying, “Yup… uhuh… see that one? I took that one away from Tom Brady.”

  11. Connor’s piece in the O is head and shoulders above the report in the Gadget Times. He points out that Cav’s wife’s sister is married to recently retired Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride.

    Eggers seems preoccupied with the Blazers…surprised not a word from him yet.

  12. How about Lyle Moevao? Right after he graduated I said the Beavs should get him on staff…great personality for recruiting, and the all-time highest winning % of any OSU QB. Intriguing dark horse candidate.

    • I loved Lyle as a player but I am not sure that he has what it takes to coach. He had a couple of personality quirks that would begin to show.

      • OTOH, Lyle had a few personality quirks which, combined with Bray, could bring a passion for winning not often seen in Riley.

        I’m with ObjCritic, very hard to imagine Riley moving Lyle to OC, maybe QB coach but then Riley would probably have to retain OC duties for himself which he has said he doesn’t want to do.

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