The Jacksonville Jaguars

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

And as the dominoes are falling...

Caldwell - GM
C. Polian - Personnel Director
Roman - HC

QB- Alex Smith??

[comncense]

Seems like Caldwell was the up and coming hot hire on the market this off-season as well. It's also encouraging that Khan was able to steal him away from the Jets who were trying to interview him. I think that says a lot about the vision that Khan was selling.

@AlbertBreer - The Jets, scrambling a bit after losing out on Caldwell, put in a request to speak with Telesco this week. But Telesco has pushed that back.

[comncense]

And as the dominoes are falling...

Caldwell - GM
C. Polian - Personnel Director
Roman - HC

QB- Alex Smith??

I'd love to get Alex Smith as a QB, but not sure what I'd be willing to give up in trade for him. He's still under contract right?

[copperfiend]

I am not sure the Niners have much of a choice but to release him. He is due a one million dollar roster bonus at beginning of March. If he is still on Niners roster in April, his salary of 7 million becomes guaranteed. I doubt they will pay a backuip that kind of money. Now if he is released, teams like the Chiefs and Cardinals could also be interested in him. I think Smith is a solid player but I am not sure I would make a huge financial investment in him.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

True, but I'm going off the premise that Roman is the new HC.  Someone who knows firsthand what Alex Smith is capable of....

With the ties back of SF, I'm wondering if we could pick him up on the cheap, look at shipping Henne somewhere and leave Gabbert on the bench for another season, at least.  If we need a 3rd QB, there's always Jordan Palmer, who seems to play well, albeit against the 3rd stringers.

Worst case scenario, if we needed a 3rd, we could always get Bouman off the tractor again.   

[tufsu1]

Good hire. Mularkey is gone.

maybe...but keep in mind that Mularkey was in Atlanta before here...and as OC, I'm sure he was involved in drafting players (like Julio Jones)

[comncense]

Good hire. Mularkey is gone.

maybe...but keep in mind that Mularkey was in Atlanta before here...and as OC, I'm sure he was involved in drafting players (like Julio Jones)

It seems that ATL was more than happy to let Mularkey go. And lately every time I hear people mention Mularkey and Caldwell, they seem to say that the two didn't have the best relationship.

Personally I'm all for starting over with a clean slate. Other than Sullivan (the WR coach), Cullen (the D-line coach) and Crooms (the RB coach) I say let the rest of the coaching staff go.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

If Mularkey goes, Sullivan goes with him.

[tufsu1]

Good hire. Mularkey is gone.

maybe...but keep in mind that Mularkey was in Atlanta before here...and as OC, I'm sure he was involved in drafting players (like Julio Jones)

It seems that ATL was more than happy to let Mularkey go.

and replace him with Dirk Koetter....who was just awesome while here

[Wacca Pilatka]

In fairness to Koetter, he was never given the kind of personnel necessary to run a vertical offense with lots of receiver spacing like he prefers, and reportedly had Tice, Pola, and possibly Del Rio leaning on him to make the offense more run-oriented and conservative.

I thought he did an excellent job adapting to the resources he had with the '07 roster, probably the best offense that the Jaguars ever fielded (the only Jaguar team to score 400 points in a season).  He did some creative things in '10 also, inserting options and some other effective wrinkles to get Garrard and the offense more comfortable after those two catastrophic games early in the season against San Diego and the Eagles.

[comncense]

I don't think you can fault Koetter while he was here. It's not like he had the talent to work with while he was here. Seems like Koetter is doing just fine right now. Atlanta was ranked 8th in the league in total offense in the regular season.

[duvaldude08]

I don't think you can fault Koetter while he was here. It's not like he had the talent to work with while he was here. Seems like Koetter is doing just fine right now. Atlanta was ranked 8th in the league in total offense in the regular season.

Atlantas offense was on fire before he got there. So its hard to say that Koetter is the reason they are doing well. I think the tell tell sign will be the playoffs. If they crash and burn again, I wonder who will get the blame. The cant blame mularkey anymore.

[BridgeTroll]

http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2013/01/09/packers-harris-rejuvenated-running-game/

Packers’ Harris rejuvenated run game

Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:30 pm by San Francisco Chronicle in 49ers


DuJuan Harris isn’t running like a man possessed.

Instead, he’s pumping his legs like a former car salesman who never wants to hawk another Dodge Durango.

In a move with serious Cinderella overtones, the Packers opened the playoffs last week and inserted the just-off-the-street Harris as their starting running back. Fewer than three months ago, he was working at a Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge dealership in Jacksonville, Fla., after spending part of the 2011 season with the Jaguars.

Niners defensive coordinator Vic Fangio believes something about the experience didn’t agree with the twice-released, 5-foot-8, 203-pounder who was signed to the Packers practice squad on Oct. 24.

“He must not have liked selling cars because he’s running hard,” Fangio said. “He doesn’t want to go back there. And he’s running like a man who likes the current job he has and he wants to keep it. … They’ve stumbled onto a good running back.”

[comncense]

^ I always liked Harris. He reminded me a lil of MJD with his speed and shiftiness. It's a shame we released him. At the time i guess we 'thought' we had a logjam at RB.

[BridgeTroll]

^ I always liked Harris. He reminded me a lil of MJD with his speed and shiftiness. It's a shame we released him. At the time i guess we 'thought' we had a logjam at RB.

Reminds me of MJD also... Gene Smith let a good one go...