Protecting Gary Kubiak

[rmcjacket23]

I'm not so sure. The way these NFL offenses are trending toward college...sure teams might think Kubes is good now but he's not the future. I doubt he or Dennison get any offers because at some unknown point in the future his offense will be obsolete.

Well, I don't think it will happen after one season.

 

But a team looking for an experienced HC with offensive experience and in a generally considered QB-friendly offense would almost certainly give Kubiak a long look.

 

Frankly, I'd expect it to be a team with a rookie or young QB who skill-wise seems to fit in the WC offense.

 

If I were a guessing man, you're probably looking at at least 2 team who I think are a lock to have new HC next season (Raiders, Jets) and another 4 or more teams who could conceivably have HC turnover (Falcons, Jaguars, Dolphins, Bills), ignoring that there's typically at least one "surprise" firing every year.

 

Bottom line for me is there's typically going to be at least 5-6 teams looking for another HC, and Kubiak figures to get interest from most of them at least initially.

[izvoodoo]

The other thing is Kubiak's health.  Remember he had a ministroke last year, so Baltimore may be a good fit for him in terms of both pay and health if we can keep the workload lighter.  It depends on what he wants.

Also the fact that his whole staff may leave may have effected bringing him in in the first place.

[beanfigger]

As others have stated and I previously stated a few days ago in the offseason thread, the best plan is to continue our season deep into January/February until there are no more head coaching vacancies still available.

 

Either way, my gut feeling is that Kubes stays for at least one more season with us. I don't have a solid reason behind that except that I feel he needs more than a one year break after everything came crashing down health-wise and performance-wise in Houston. I think he took this job because he wanted to do it, not as an audition for future employment. Otherwise, he may have made a stronger push to fill a head coaching vacancy last offseason. He did have a head start after being fired mid-season to schmooze with the other teams who were destined to fire their guy at season's end.

[redrum52]

Increase his pay. As someone else said, the coaches pay is determined by the owner. Make people want to stay. I'm not saying pay them HC money, but just make it real comfortable for them here, even though I think Steve does that already. It would node to keep a staff around as we have reloaded a powerhouse. It would be nice to establish have the kind of coordinator stability the Pats had during theor reign or what the Steelers have with Lebeau.

[rmcjacket23]

The other thing is Kubiak's health.  Remember he had a ministroke last year, so Baltimore may be a good fit for him in terms of both pay and health if we can keep the workload lighter.  It depends on what he wants.

Also the fact that his whole staff may leave may have effected bringing him in in the first place.

I don't know how less stressful the job is though. I'm not saying that coordinators work harder than HC, but I doubt Kubiak is working 9-5 in-season though. I have no doubt that when you are in charge of the offensive gameplan for the entire team, he's working tons of hours and stressing quite a bit.

 

I might even borderline say that coordinators on a weekly basis in-season may face more stress and pressure than HC. HCs have to look at the big picture, which no doubt is stressful, but OCs, DCs, and even assistants are mainly formulating gameplans and focusing on strengths and weaknesses of their opponents vs what we do.

 

I wouldn't say that the actual stress levels are significantly smaller for Kubiak.

[Static]

I think gary stays atleast one more year. Remember he choose to be a OC because of health issues also I suppose he would rather coordinate a contender then coach a tanking team. 

[ravens rule]

I think gary stays atleast one more year. Remember he choose to be a OC because of health issues also I suppose he would rather coordinate a contender then coach a tanking team. 

Yup after next year loosing Gary is more likely. He just came off a 2-14 season loosing 14 games in a row no way he gets a HC job this year. Plus I feel like he is a Norv Turner type good coordinator average HC.