New day, new names added to the coaching carousel. The Redskins, who have been uncharacteristically deliberate in their search to replace Joe Gibbs, could interview Jim Fassel and Denny Green, two coaches brought in four years ago before the team hired Gibbs 2.0.
From the Washington Post's Jason La Canfora:
Spoke to ... Fassel last night and he said he does not want to go into much detail about any possible contact with NFL teams, but that he has not been contacted by the Redskins at this point.Obviously, it's very early in the process, and neither coach has the cache they once did: Fassel took the 2000 Giants to the Super Bowl; Green was responsible for those explosive Vikings' offenses during the late '90s. In their last stints on the sideline, Fassel was fired by best bud Brian Billick as the Ravens offensive coordinator, and Green was canned after three unspectacular seasons in Arizona that will only be remembered for this.
Spoke to someone very close to Dennis Green who said he is aware of no contact between the sides.
La Canfora also has this Rooney Rule-related nugget:
[T]wo [current Redskins] staff members would fulfill the NFL's Rooney Rule stipulations - defensive coordinator Greg Blache and running backs coach Earnest Byner. Blache let it be known he has no head coaching aspirations and is not interested in interviewing, league sources said, while team sources said that Byner was not contacted.Washington hopes to interview two Colts assistants: Jim Caldwell and Ron Meeks, and depending on how the AFC divisional game works out, that could come sooner than expected.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-13-2008 @ 10:22PM
aaorn W said...
The "Rooney Rule" is BS....IF a guy isnt qualified, be it white or black so what. To interview someone b/c they HAVE to based on skin color is BS.!
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1-18-2008 @ 3:16PM
RdsknCritic said...
What is really BS about the Rooney rule is that they had to institute the rule in the first place. And it could boderline on tokenism in some instances but, in a league where the overwhelming majority of the players are Black and where there are many capable assistant coaches, both Black and White, there shouldn't be a disparity when it comes to interviewing for prospective head coach positions. All that was asked for was an opportunity for Blacks to sit before these owners and be heard. Case in point is Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh. That head coach position was almost assured being given to someone else, but Tomlin came in and blew management away, thanks to the "Rooney rule". All that was being asked was to be given an opportunity, not to be chosen because they are Black. Ain't in ironic though that the rule is called the "Rooney rule" and not the "Dennis Green rule" or the "Tony Dungy rule". If some rich White NFL owner was astute enough to realize and admit to the descrimination, unfairness and disparity with regard to hiring new head coaches, then that absolutely overrides the opinion of some pea-brained disgruntled fan who has no grasp on the reality of race and politics. If you want to complain about something then complain about Jason Garrett and the disgusting way he pretended he was interviewing for a head coach position with the Ravens and the Falcons when all he was doing was finding out his market value so that Jerry Jones could match whatever he was being offered. Now "THAT" was absolute unequivocal BS. And I believe he may have blackballed himself from any other head coach position in the league outside of Dallas.
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