I like Dan Justik a lot, but I think he had a couple coffees too many before he wrote the linked article on how George Paton's withdrawal from GM consideration is concerning:
It is concerning, because George had reasons for turning down this opportunity to be the top guy with a Head Coach he'd worked with for 13 years.
But Dan started over-analyzing everything with "what if's".
Look: The Browns weren't firing anybody here. If a team decides not to hire somebody, they simply don't say anything.
Paton withdrew his name, period. But Dan quotes Mary Kay Cabbot as saying that Stefanski wanted Paton "in the worst way", and proceeds to suspect that the Browns wanted Andrew Berry all along and were just pretending to court Stefanski's favorite.
Well for one thing, Mary Kay is prone to hyperbole, and I strongly suspect that "in the worst way" came from "I really like him! He knows his stuff. I hope we can get this done." Kevin Stefanski isn't a "in the worst way!" kinda guy, if you know what I mean.
Did Paton not like the fact that Paul DePodesta wouldn't "answer to" him? Quite possible, but John Dorsey accepted this arrangement, and simply won every argument (unfortunately).
Paton has turned down numerous offers from other teams, and a good analyst sees that this guy is patient and emotionally secure. He's not as ambitous, greedy, or power-hungry as most others are.
By the way, these are compliments.
It is quite possible that Andrew Berry was Paul DePodesta's favorite all along, but I don't believe that George Paton withdrew his hat from the ring because he sensed this and was offended (or whatever), as Dan Justik seems to.
"Concerning" is the fact that now Berry is it, and what if he turns the gig down?
I don't think he will. He comprehends and believes in analytics, and seemed to work well with Paul DePodesta. Now, Berry has more leverage, and might extract the same concessions that Paton wanted but couldn't get.
...Uh...this is called "business analytics", by the way...
MKC walked back from "in the worst way", and says that Stefanski likes Andrew Berry almost as much as he likes George Paton.
She theorizes that Paton had some concerns about the organizational structure, but you people need to understand that, despite the fact that Mary tends to say these things as if they are confirmed facts, they are much more often her educated guesses.
She's often proven correct in these educated guesses, but guys like Dan Justik should know better than to treat her like the Oracle of Delphi.
I don't care about marijuana in Hunt's car. It's 2020 and most of us are sick of this hysteria over something more benign than beer. A lot of my own peeps seem to have short and convenient memories, too.
The 49ers are reportedly going to make a "late push" to retain Joe Woods despite the Browns' efforts to hire him as their new Defensive Coordinator.
His boss, San Fran DC Robert Saleh, is almost certain to become a Head Coach after the 2020 season, and the 49ers reportedly want to replace him with DB Coach Joe Woods.
This was a rather nebulous (almost "fluffy") article:
The Niners can't block another team from hiring a coach to a higher position than the one he holds.
They can try to bribe the guy to stick around, but would the 49ers ownership match what Jimmy Haslam would offer his next Defensive Coordinator?
They could promise to make him their Defensive Coordinator in 2021...but not guarantee it in writing...and if you were Woods, what would you do?
Oh stop it with the snark and negativity, ok?
Woods worked with Stefanski forever, and the notion of working with him again is probably as appealing to him as it is to Stefanski.
The Browns' defense is less talented than the 49ers D, but doesn't suck. Woods will love Garrett, Ward, Williams, Richardson, and Mack Wilson, for starters.
The Defense is built to run the scheme he is most familiar with, and used to most of what he'll want to do.
He can trust Stefanski to make sure his voice is heard in talent acquisition and roster moves, and:
Well it gets deep: Woods will look at tthe 2019 Browns' offensive films, and guesstimate how the Shanahan offensive scheme will work---and if it will help his defense by eating up clock-time, building leads, giving him field position, etc...
Yeah...very deep...but fortunately Woods will ignore YOUR snarky negative comments.
I predict that Andrew Berry and Joe Woods will join the Browns, despite how they dysfuntionally are dysfuntional and the owner meddles and all the dysfunctionality and meddling and doom and stuff.
Screw it. Okbye.
Wait: They can re-sign Kareem Hunt cheaper now! Keep that up Jim Donovan!
Okbye again.
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