Ravens promote Zach Orr to DC

It's the framing* effect, IMO.

* Not the same as the Frames effect, whereby coaches make decisions that appear to intentionally reduce their teams' odds of winning.

My worry is that we are removing most of the leadership from our program - HC, OC, DC, Strength Coach - and replacing all of it with the next man up.  

It sure seems like the next man up is a good option, but at some point, doing that to every position could be an issue. Campbell is a great QB coach, Sherrone a great OL coach, Newsome a great TE coach, Clink a great DB coach.  Now we have a first-time HC and first-time coordinators who just "lost" a ton of great position coaches.  First time callers on both sides of the ball.

Imo, Moore needs to make at least one outside hire at coordinator.  I'd prefer two.

Why hasn't Moore immediately hired him for the role if it's so obvious? That says something no? He works in the same building daily. 

Close. He actually made him get a Ravens tat.  OSU is going all in this offseason. 

And Day told him to look up what "Ameeba" was anyway. Why is everyone talking about ameeba?!

My worry here is that we don't know if guys on staff are really suited to a role as DC. They might be! But you don't want to Peter principle the wrong person. 

But yes, continuity is crucial here. Perhaps there really was something to the vague idea floating around of getting an outside guy to pair with Clink as a co-DC to get someone known to be capable of the general role and someone who knows the system but could use experience in the role together.

Or maybe Sherrone was holding out hope for a Ravens system staff guy that was ready to buttress the staff, and they're all being vacuumed up, and he promotes Elston and Clink and they're both capable. 

Keeping the system the same for this year is important. You don't want to mortgage the whole program for it, but giving Sherrone time to build the program (and the offense, which replaces almost everything) with that defense intact is an important investment in future years of the program, too. 

In Loeffler's post game press conference earlier this year, he said that they run the Raven's defensive scheme. 

Steve Morrison is his co-defensive coordinator.  

Bring him back home??  Solves our linebacker coach problem and DC problem while running the same system.  

Just a thought. 

Mason Graham, defensive tackle/defensive coordinator

Vrabel at DC would literally make some heads explode in Columbus. 

Michigan getting in on the ground floor of the cutting edge evolution of defensive schematics is going to be looked back upon as one of the truly remarkable aspects of this three-year era and one of Harbaugh's two or three best actions as HC. The Macdonald/Martindale Amoeba defense (or whatever identifier it may have) has become THE hot scheme in football, and Michigan deployed it in college in a moment when it could be used to maximum effect.

After two years of seeing CJ Stroud struggle against it, I thought he was a flawed player. But he's a top ten QB in the NFL as a rookie and everyone else gets stoned by this defense in exactly the same way. It wasn't Stroud; it was Michigan, running that defense, that did it.

How long have we seen some innovative system in sports and longed to be on the cutting edge of it? We tried with RichRod. Michigan never ran the wishbone or the West Coast or the Air Raid, didn't really ever get the best parts of spread runs or RPOs when we started doing them. 

But we ran That Defense. And conquered all.