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Romeo Crennel Says Brian Daboll Had Multiple Suitors

The Kansas City Chiefs made it official and hired Brian Daboll as their new offensive coordinator. In the release provided by the team a few minutes ago, Daboll and head coach Romeo Crennel are quoted about the move.

"This is a great opportunity," Daboll said. "After meeting with Romeo, it was clear to me Kansas City was a good fit. I have a lot of respect for Romeo and a strong appreciation for the Kansas City Chiefs franchise. Romeo and I have similar ideas on the direction of the program and we have a good core group of players to get started with. I'm ready to get in as soon as possible and start working to be a part of something special."

With the injured guys like Jamaal Charles and Tony Moeaki coming back, the Chiefs do have the pieces in place to be a very dynamic offense.

"Brian is a fine football coach and offensive mind," said Crennel. "I worked with him when he was a young coach in New England and I am proud of the way his career has developed. We had a very thorough process for this position and it was clear to me that Brian was the right choice. He was coveted by multiple teams and I am glad he will be joining our staff."

Interesting tidbit from Crennel there -- Daboll was "coveted by multiple teams". I'm not sure who those teams were -- they never made it to the public -- but I found it interesting he noted that in his quote.

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That "coveted by multiple teams" bit...

that’s part of the soft sell the Chiefs are trying to do to win the fans over on this guy’s less than stellar track record.

What they don't say

Is those teams that “coveted” him only wanted him for WR or QB coach.

But we shall see what happens…he deserves a chance to prove his worth.

Maybe he was a coveted water boy?

I hear he makes some high quality H20.

I was about to add that coveting him as Ball boy, or attitude adjuster doesn’t quite count.

Would it really matter?

If X other teams wanted him or if 0 other teams wanted him?

All 32 teams wanting him wouldn’t matter to those that have predetermined that he’s going to fail here.
Not a single team wanting him wouldn’t matter to those either high on Daboll or at least willing to wait and see.

I guess I’m just saying I don’t know why Romeo would give a gerbil-turd about whether the fans do or don’t like this hire. And moreover, why he would try to smooth it over if he thought we didn’t.

I think it matters a great deal

and I’m sure the new PR man and probably Pioli have both said as much. Especially given the very public black-eye recently. It matters to the organization as a whole and as a result, it’s important to Romeo.

Bingo.

The guy had a less than stellar record in Cleveland. Okay, I don’t remember anyone in the past several years that has made the Browns an offensive juggernaut. Miami actually had a pretty good offense the last half of last season. That was with a QB equivelant (or worse) than Cassel.

Until Romeo shows that he is dishonest, I take him at his word. I think Daboll will be just fine.

That has Scott Pioli written all over it.

That’s why they are doing the used car salesman job on us.

I won't disagree one bit
“Brian is a fine football coach and offensive mind,” said Crennel. “I worked with him when he was a young coach in New England and I am proud of the way his career has developed.”
That's why Daboll kept referencing meeting with Crennel

And not Pioli.

Daboll was also part

of Pioli’s elaborate scheme to deceive the public.

It's his communist plot to make our minds snap
Right. I keep forgetting how hard Pioli works to fool the fans

BINGO! RAC saw our approval poll. That was his reply to it.

Yeah ... Team Pioli, Team RAC and Team Cassel
That “coveted by multiple teams” bit…
Special Offense

Um have you seen the QB’S the Chiefs have on roster?

Maybe he meant "special"

Like herp derp special.

He made Matt Moore special.

Might be something. I’m hoping he’ll make Stanzi special, or Orton special, or Manning special.

I don't think anyone made Manning special

except Manning…like to see him here, though…

Why leave out the best QB on the roster?

If he improved Moore, he should be able to improve Cassel

Those teams wanted him as a position coach I'm betting

still I like the hire. I feel like some people will be surprised at how he gets our offense going

I'm optomistic

I hope he does well. With Haley and Muir gone there really isn’t anything left to get in his way. So he’ll either soar or sink, but at least we know its all him.

I am actually encouraged...

miami’s offense was as anemic as ours for the first 8 games of the season. Then they fired the HC and suddenly they had really good Offense. Making me believe it was the HC and not Daboll who was the problem. He got Bush to play exactly to his talents and is the only OC to get him to perform at that high a level in his career. Which is exactly how we should be using Charles and McCluster. Swing outs and getting them to the edge with good blocking schemes. Not to mention Moore actually started to play pretty well there at the end. And whether he is the starter next year or not Cassel is better than Moore by a good margin. So I am cautiously optimistic after some thought and looking at some of the stuff from the end of last year.

which teams haven't hired an OC yet?

anyone know off hand?

I think the Steelers are the only ones left.
And the Jets?
And the Bears.
And Tampa.
Nope they have a guy too.
interestingly, i think the chiefs, bears, jets, and steelers all want to play the same type of ball
I see what you did there.

You named the “multiple teams.” Very well done.

haha

nothing like a little kitchen table math, eh?

They hired Sparano, yeah?
Hence the question mark

Thanks, I knew I was forgetting osmeone.

is he full on OC or does he have some title like running game coordinator or something?
i still think if kc kept haley, sparano would be our oc right now
what is sparano doing up there?

he got hired by the jets, right?

Answer to the 2nd question - yes

Answer to the 1st question – eating a lot of pizza

I kid, I kid – he did drop a lot of LBs while in Miami.

Jets hired the Miami HC to be OC, I guess they ranked him ahead of Daboll
They also hired Hackett and Shotty Jr.

Their track record isn’t the best.

At all the people saying

“All those teams wanted him as a positions coach”
Why would they even offer him that? He was an OC for Miami and everyone liked him. Get real people.

Why not?

Todd Haley was a HC who just went to the playoffs 2 years ago….he is jobless

Raheem Morris was just HC and now he is DB coach.

It doesn’t matter who you are in the NFL….you are not entitled to anything.

Daboll is lucky to be given an OC job again. He failed in Cleveland and did ok in Miami. He isn’t entitled to anything!

All I can say is that

the one local Miami fan (I know exactly two) I talked to said they would keep Daboll and give us Ken O’Keefe in a heartbeat. I agree. O’Keefe drove me nuts for years.

daboll is a guy who has got the most out of mediocre qb's, and in some cases, flat out poor qb's like derek anderson.

so if the team ends up stuck with some sort of cassel/orton situation, or cassel/stanzi dogfight, maybe he is the best option available after all to get the most out of cassel or orton.

lets hope so. hes young too, lot of room to improve, lot of talent to use to do so.

ill give the guy a chance. why not? don’t really have a choice anyway

40+ years of repeated failure

suggest that unless othewise proven, we should expect this hire to fall flat too

Repeated failure, yet people clamoring for Saunders
I don't remember saying that
when we had saunders as OC

we didn’t have RAC as the HC or DC

When we had Saunders as OC

We had the greatest offensive line in the history of the game.

Outside of when he’s had phenomenal talent to work with, Saunders hasn’t done a whole lot.

track the career of Al Saunders after he left here.

He hasn’t been given much of a chance. He’s at a place a year or two and then there’s massive turnover with the staff and he isn’t retained.

However, there is evidence that his offense can be potent with players who are experienced in it. Jason Campbell went down in Washington, and Todd Collins (remember him?) stepped in and performed quite well.

Ha! Todd Collins... Good times...
No, we had Marty,

Cowher, Adolph, and Cunningham.

Then the chiefs should be contracted

Since the team hasn’t won a super bowl in 40 years. Every change should be expected to fail. Why have a team here?

they haven't contracted Detroit, or Cleveland

why just us?

past performance

is no indicator… jeez, the pitchfork and torch crowd is particularly surly today.

no but it HAS been uncannily accurate

when it comes to the Chiefs

Five Year Plans

For the last 40+ years we’ve seen rebuilding plan after rebuilding plan and none of them has produced a Super Bowl appearance, much less a win. For the last 18 years we haven’t even seen a playoff win. Considering that the GM of the latest rebuilding plan just fired the guy he wanted to lead that effort, I think skepticism on the part of the fantasy is understandable.

if not rational
skepticism is understandable

but that’s a choice between optimism and pessimism.

Look, the current administration, no matter what you think of them, isn’t trying to repeat the twenty years under Peterson, or the twenty before that.

Crucifying the OC and the OC hire before he has settled into his desk is a bit much. Pioli has been here three years and no Super Bowl berth means he sucks? Okay, fine. The Haley hire and rotating OC’s hasn’t been too great for Cassel and the offense. This hire, Daboll, may finally produce some stability.

With the weapons he has, and if the injured players return and play well, I don’t see how the offense does not improve. If he can develop Stanzi and give us a look at what else we’ve got on the roster, bonus. If Cassel plays well and improves over his “Pro Bowl” year, double bonus.

If KC brings in another QB to improve the position, triple win win win bonus.

well, to track your own post

if we’re getting a new system, and by all accounts, we are, that’s a learning curve right there that probably suggests it won’t work altogether well this year, and will take about a year to be fully installed for it to be successful. Which means 2012 is another wasted year.

You leave out the constant in this whole mess…the Hunt family. Who for better or worse have tossed loyalty to GMs who made money for the team (Steadman and Peterson) over actual performance and championships. that HASN’T changed.

The 49ers did okay with a new system.
plus, they will have the whole offseason to get it installed.

this guy seems to know how to adapt to the players around him as opposed to force feeding his scheme to them.

Except

Adapting to Matt Cassel means 1.7 yards per completion. I believe Cassel held back the3 playcalling last year. Lokk at how the game was called with Orton in. New poster here by the way. Lurking for about 6 months.

Congrats on upgrading from "lurker"!

welcome aboard

KC plays in the AFC West

Which means 2012 is another wasted year.

The division is up for grabs. You get, presumably, an entire and intact pre-season. You have an entire season to get it together. Heck, nine wins and you may win the division and go to the playoffs. Once you’re in, anything can happen. The Giants went 9-7 and won the Super Bowl. The Denver Broncos won a playoff game with Tim Freaking Tebow.

I don’t think hiring Daboll is leading to a wasted year.

yeah, and 13-3 can get you bumped in the first round

three different times. At home.

Whereas, if you’re 9-7 or close to it, you pretty much get beat up by the opposing team too, as we have a couple of times.

Adjusting to a new system can hardly produce worse results than the system we had last year.
Dont say that..

As bad as it may seem.. it could always be worse.. Last time i checked Tyler Palko IS still on this team..

Only till March 13th.
I don't think..

he is considered “on the team” the coaches and gm keep saying there is only two QBs under contract and on the roster. Cassel and Stanzi. I got indication they had any intention to brink him back ever.

Lets go to work

“We don’t hear the hate”

Any ideas on who's going to coach the O-Line, WRs?

Do Romeo or Daboll know anyone worth two shakes for either of these positions?

Well, we'll find out.

It’s only Monday after the Super Bowl… maybe Daboll needs a couple hours to think about his staff.

WE DEMAND ANSWERS NOW!!!

:)

yeah!

and soon comes the obligatory “oh, well, they’ll just be some Patriots rejects…”

Yep.

“This hiring has Pioli’s name all over it. He just wanted a puppet.”

Is that you Jeff Fisher?
Maybe it's just me, but I would think this would have been a question asked to Daboll during the interview process...

Otherwise it seems dysfunctional to me that you’d hire an OC and not discuss who else would round out the staff and whether they can co-exist, same O-line blocking schemes, etc

Perhaps, but the interview

is for OC, not position coaches. Naming a few potentials or types may have come up, but until you can go out and get some people (by asking permission) it’s just theoreticals. You can look at his previous hires (if he had any) and get an idea.

If Daboll is involved in getting his position coaches, he most certainly wouldn’t hire guys he doesn’t think fit his scheme(s).

Karl Dorrel?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Dorrell

Dolphins fans say Daboll may push to hire him, and hes likely out the door in Miami with a new regime in place.

I think for OL...

We just promote Pleasant. I think he would do well.

I am willing to give this guy a shot based on one thing:

Miami: 31 KC: 3

PASSING
CP/AT YDS TD INT
Moore 17/23 244 3 0

RUSHING
ATT YDS TD LG
Bush 13 92 1 28
Thomas 7 12 0 4
Moore 4 3 0 5

RECEIVING
REC YDS TD LG
Marshall 8 106 1 30
Bush 3 50 0 27
Clay 3 50 0 22
Fasano 2 38 2 35
Bess 1 0 0 0

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/gameflash/2011/11/06/4513_recap.html

Daboll's offense whooped Romeo's defense
Yes he sure did

I am somewhat excited to see what this guy can do. Think:

Charles>Bush
Bowe and Marshall are very similar WR’s
Matt Moore / Chad Henne are in the same ballpark as Matt Cassel

A lot of people around here are calling Romeo’s defense “near elite”. Look what Day-Bull did to that “near elite” defense AT ARROWHEAD!

I will take Miami's line over ours

in a heartbeat

Would you take their line over ours

with the addition of DeCastro?

this is supposed to include: “with the addition of DeCastro?”

we still have revolving doors at the tackles

so no

Best audition ever

Even if Daboll didn’t know he was auditioning at the time

Should make for interesting practices.
Daboll had multiple suitors

Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnepeg Blue Bombers

Pretty sure the

Walla Walla Wallaby’s
Poughkeepsie Pap-Smears
and the Dill City Dingleberries were also interested.

Any arena teams want daboll
Interesting

Guess they’ve been reading the opinion polls on AP and realized that people weren’t exactly stoked about their choice of yet another former Patriots coach.

Daboll had better produce with Cassel quickly or Pioli may not get that fifth year at the rate he’s alienating the fan base.

maybe Daboll will produce quickly

with The One.

Neo?

No.

Daboll

this offense looks juicy and delicious,

but i know it really is average with the qbs that are under contract….

It would help if KC was able to re-sign Orton

I know he isn’t Manning, but he sure is better than Cassel. Even his fake hand-offs and play action passes are better.

There can be only one!
rec'd

all of them, except the one that won’t load.

The master

not exactly sure what this is....
as long as it's not this

Sho'Nuff

I forgot Busta Rhymes was in that.
Nah he just dressed up as the Shogun for a Music Video

I think.

Is it bad that we're the only 3 people (other than Rocka)

talking about this?

Sometimes I’m ashamed at the movies I’ve seen – especially when I’ve seen some more than once (usually the ones that least deserve it).

i would have joined in

but i was looking for Sum Dom Goy

It's Not Busta

Can’t remember the name of the actor, but he also played Lord Bowler in “The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.”. He died not too long ago.

Julius Carry?
best comment ever.. LOL
Anybody remember the name of that movie?

Would love to make my fiancee watch this after “Sex and the City 2” this weekend…

Alright.. I looked it up

It was called The Last Dragon.. Apparently they are remaking it with Samuel L Jackson as Sho’nuff. This from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dragon

I always remember it as

Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon

At least that’s how it always appeared on HBO or wherever the hell I subjected myself to it.

Good luck… it will kick the shit out of Sex and the City 2.

Yea right

There was other teams stupid enough to want a 22nd ranked offense at best. Pioli and company tells us this because nobody want to come here due to the issues in the front office. I’ve spent my last 30 years footbal sundays on the Chiefs and they have never even tried. I dont know why I waste my time.
P.S. I will still be stoked for our first game next season.

we all might as well give him a year before we get are pitchforks out

There is nothing we can do where all chiefs fans and love are team we might as well set back and pray they pull somethin good out of there hat, you only got a few more shots to get this right pioli

"coveted". Right.

And people are acting like Crennel wasn’t told to say that for PR purposes?

You’re hilarious, AP.

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