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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 5:50PM ET by Matt Snyder (RSS feed)
Filed under: Browns, AFC North, NFL Coaching, NFL Rumors

With a bevy of big name coaches likely ready-for-hire heading into the 2010 season, in addition to a lot of really poor
NFL teams in 2009, we can expect rumors to be swirling all over the place for the rest of this season and on into the offseason. Thus, it's not surprising to see Mike Holmgren mentioned as a possibility. Of course, most thought he'd have to at least wait until next season to get involved.
According to Adam Shefter of ESPN, Holmgren may not have to wait. Shefter reports that the
Browns want to hire Holmgren as their vice president of football operations -- similar to the role Bill Parcells has with Miami -- and that the job is immediately Holmgren's for the taking.
Posted: Nov 3rd 2009 3:40PM ET by Matt Snyder (RSS feed)
Filed under: Rams, NFC West, NFL Coaching
Steve Spagnuolo is going through a rough season in his first as an
NFL head coach. He had the unenviable task of taking over a roster which was left in disarray by the previous administration. No real effort had been done to bridge the gap from The Greatest Show on Turf to the next wave of players, with the notable exception of drafting studly running back
Steven Jackson before Marshall Faulk was retired.
The results to this point have hardly been surprising. Poor Spags and his troops endured seven losses, including several blowouts, before finally earning their first victory this past Sunday against the
Lions. While he's cherishing this first win,
Spagnuolo realizes it's the first step of many.
Posted: Nov 2nd 2009 1:00PM ET by Bruce Ciskie (RSS feed)
Filed under: Packers, NFC North, NFL Coaching
Editor's Note: Bruce Ciskie, a lifelong Packers fan, opines about the state of his beloved team.High expectations greeted the
Green Bay Packers in August, as the team arrived at training camp. Practices -- held across the street from Lambeau Field -- were very physical, as the
Packers tried to show they wouldn't be bullied around like they were far too often in 2008.
That 6-10 season, we all were told, was a memory. It was a fluke. It wasn't how things would be conducted in Green Bay. Bad tackling, soft defense, poor special teams play, and stupid penalties were going to be a thing of the past.
Or not.
Posted: Nov 1st 2009 10:55PM ET by Matt Snyder (RSS feed)
Filed under: Browns, AFC North, NFL Coaching, NFL Rumors

After yet another embarrassing beatdown for his
Browns -- this time a 30-6 loss at the hands of the
Chicago Bears -- Eric Mangini received a vote of confidence, at least for the remainder of this season. Randy Lerner, owner of the Browns, indicated
he isn't willing to dismiss Mangini right now, but admitted to the Associated Press that he is "sick" about the state of his franchise.
Even if Mangini's safe, Lerner did express interest in making one change -- he wants to bring in a football-tested authority figure to help run the franchise. The way he's phrasing everything, it sounds like he wants to hire someone in the Bill Parcells-in-Miami mold.
Posted: Oct 23rd 2009 10:59AM ET by Josh Alper (RSS feed)
Filed under: Redskins, NFC East, NFL Coaching

It looks like we can call off the
Jim Zorn Deathwatch. For the next couple of days anyway.
Redskins executive vice president of football operations
Vinny Cerrato said on his ESPN980 radio show Friday morning that Zorn
won't be fired before the 2009 season reaches its conclusion.
"Let me start by making a few things very perfectly clear: Jim Zorn is the head coach of the Washington Redskins, and will be for the rest of this season, and hopefully into the future."
Cerrato's hardly an impartial party to this decision. When and if Zorn gets fired and when and if
Daniel Snyder brings in the big-name coach everyone expects he'll bring in as a replacement, Cerrato will be the next head on the chopping block.
Posted: Oct 22nd 2009 7:00AM ET by Dave Goldberg (RSS feed)
Filed under: NFL Coaching, NFL Analysis

Coaches know their eventual fate the day they are hired. Almost all will be fired within a few years unless they do something very difficult, like win a Super Bowl. Or ride off into the sunset to pursue better causes, as Tony Dungy did.
So maybe Jeff Fisher's time has come.
Posted: Oct 21st 2009 9:05PM ET by Nancy Gay (RSS feed)
Filed under: Broncos, AFC West, NFL Coaching, FanHouse Exclusive, NFL Analysis

SAN DIEGO -- Outside linebacker
Elvis Dumervil set aside any doubts that the 2009
Broncos' astonishing turnaround isn't legitimate on Monday night when he leveled
Chargers quarterback
Philip Rivers a second time in the contest, helping punctuate a 34-23 division victory that gave undefeated Denver a stranglehold on the AFC West.
With that, Dumervil had his
NFL-leading 10th sack, putting him on pace to surpass Michael Strahan's single-season record of 22 1/2.
"It's hard to get to 10 [sacks]," said Dumervil, who was surrounded in the crowded visitors' locker room at Qualcomm Stadium by teammates hooting and calling him the next Strahan. "Every sack guy knows it's hard to get to double digits.
"But this ... it's a new team, a new regime, and everything is new. We're just trying to innovate. We're trying to build a brand of football here, what we want to be as the
Denver Broncos."