Comments on: Raheem Gets A Call From Cleveland

By: OAR

OAR — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:55:33 +0000

PRbuc
Didn’t know you could be a head coach and a head coach on one team simultaneously????

Sorry, but it is what it is. His defenses SUCKED as defensive coordinator!!
Do you really think his horrible coaching interrfered with his horrible defensive scheme and coordinating?
He was horrible, period!

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:29:00 +0000

sorry served solely as a *defensive coordinator

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:27:49 +0000

I wasn’t aware he’s ever served solely as a head coach without having any other responsibilities to worry about such as having to be the HC?

By: OAR

OAR — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:13:10 +0000

PRbuc
So far his record as a DC has been horrible!
But, I have personally found that ka-kaw ka-kaw is best served grilled with a pinch-of-garlic or I-told-you-so!

By: Nick2

Nick2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:56:45 +0000

God save poor Cleveland they just can’t catch a break! What is their GM smoking anyway?????

By: Nick2

Nick2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:55:48 +0000

Joe, good head coaching candidate? Yeah if your talking about the Pop Warner league. He might not be over his head there and he won’t have to complain about lack of free agent money. Raheem is over his head as clipboard holder in my opinion.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:09:33 +0000

I liked Raheem. He had a huge part of the blame of what went wrong in Tampa. Accountability was not always a top priority with Raheem but under another head coach, it shouldn’t be as much of an issue. There are numerous cases of a stunningly different coordinator getting even more out of his players because of the contrast in styles to the head coach. Buddy Ryan in Chicago, Wade Phillips anyplace he has gone, the Ryan brothers, Norv Turner… these, at times, lackadaisical coaches in the area of discipline were able to exceed talent expectations on their sides of the ball because they were allowed to continue their less than drill sergeant ways because the head man provided the much needed “yang” to their “ying”. Think of it as them being able to play the role of good cop to the HC’s bad cop.

Raheem can succeed, if given another chance, as long as he has a steadfast bad cop to his good cop routine. In theNFL coaching system of checks and balances, if Raheem’s X’s and O’s are good enough, he will be fine… as a coordinator. Perhaps down the line he can show he learned from past mistakes and become a HC again… though it seems unlikely he’ll ever get that shot again. I wish him luck.

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:01:07 +0000

I think he can be a successful DC.

We shall see, I’ll eat crow if i’m wrong.

If I’m right however, i’ll have some tasty plates available for some of you.

By: OAR

OAR — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:48:39 +0000

“Raheem made an average secondary good this year.’
You are exactly right, but that is as good s Raheem is going to get at the coaching level, position coach.

By: LDAY

LDAY — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:21:49 +0000

Raheem made an average secondary good this year. Joe stop your hating!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:59:23 +0000

The fact that we consider one winning season around here as “stunning” pretty much says it all as far as the lowering of the standards.

By: eastsidebuc

eastsidebuc — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:28:08 +0000

LOL @ OAR