OT: Marrone takes assistant job with Jags
But, but...didn't LaCanfora say he was gonna be our coach???
He'll be assistant coach with focus on the offense and offensive line (but he's not OC).
A serious case of bad decision-making. I don't care what you think of your front office. Leaving a head coaching job in which you have been good but not great when there is no certainty you will land another is a very bad idea (even if you are guaranteed $4M).
January 20th, 2015 at 12:52 PM ^
This is very confusing
January 20th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
I don't know. HC jobs don't grow on trees. And it's not like he'll be the hottest name on the market next year after toiling away in anonymity in Jacksonville for a year.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 1:27 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^
Hopefully more than wanted you after a 9-7 season in Buffalo this year (which was none). You make a good point, but I think Marrone thought his stock was better than it was.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
He can come be a position coach at Michigan next year.
January 20th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
Uh....okay
January 20th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
He's a decent coach...9-7 with the Bills last year in a tough division (besides the Jets). Pegula has to realize his chance to have the Bills succeed is when number 12 hangs em up over in New England.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
Guy was dumb. Thought he had the Jets job sewn up when he quit. Bird in the hand....
January 20th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
Are you not familiar with the proverb "a bird is worth two in the bush"?
January 20th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
"A serious case of bad decision-making."
It's only a serious case of bad decision-making in your eyes. Maybe he didn't like Buffalo. Maybe he didn't like the people he was working with. Maybe he didn't think the team was going anywhere because of personnel decisions outside of his control. He still got a job at the highest level of football (in the NFL) that will be paying him lots and lots of money. That's not necessarily a bad decision.
If you look at it that way, our very own Jim Harbaugh made a bad decision. After all, he could be the coach of the Bears or the Jets or the Falcons or the Dolphins. Instead, he's coaching a college team that went 5-7 last season. But it was the decision Harbaugh wanted to make, so who's to say it was a bad one?
January 20th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
Do you honestly think he wasn't expecting to land one of the open HC jobs?
The 'he didn't like Buffalo' angle (at least enough to leave a job) seems spurious for a guy who went to and coached Syracuse. As for him not liking his co-workers or owner, shit happens; it's not a great reason to leave.
As for Harbaugh, come on Magnus, is that even remotely the same thing? Guy leaves NFL to take 'Savior' HC job at one of the most prestigious and historically successful big-time college programs (that also happens to be his beloved alma mater) vs. guy leaves NFL HC job to become vaguely titled assistant coach at worse NFL team in Jacksonville?
I'm just gonna come right out and say it was a bad decision. And I'm pretty sure he knows it too.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
Is there more than one NFL team in Jacksonville?
January 20th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
Those were 2 ideas:
1: worse team than Bills
2: in Jacksonville (not exactly cosmopolitan destination job. though, admittedly, considerably warmer than Buffalo)
January 20th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
"As for him not liking his co-workers or owner, shit happens; it's not a great reason to leave."
I respectfully disagree. While I have no clue what the exact motives Marrone had in his decision, leaving a job because you're unhappy with co-workers, owner and management is a perfectly valid reason.
However, where I differ from Marrone is I would be damn sure I have a new job lined up before leaving. :)
January 20th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
I do think he *probably* expected to get an open head coaching job. But again, the implication with that move is that he did not like the job in Buffalo. If he liked it, he wouldn't have left.
I'm not saying Marrone and Harbaugh are equivalent. I'm saying that both - with respect to traditional understandings of football hierarchy - are steps down. But if you don't like your job, you have the option of leaving the job, whether someone 2,000 miles away thinks you're making a mistake or not.
The guy was an assistant for a while, was the head coach at Syracuse, and was the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. He's not trying to get out of the projects. This isn't Ernest Shazor leaving Michigan early and then failing to making a living playing football. This is a dude who is presumably a multi-millionaire and has the financial freedom to move about as he pleases.
It's a bad move TO YOU. It's all about perspective.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
Harbaugh went from head coach to head coach. Sure he moved from the NFL to college, but his job title and salary didn't change.
Marrone just went from head coach to OL assistant. Not even OC. MAJOR demotion in job title.
I can't see how anyone could view this as anything other than a massive cluster f***, unless there is some wink, wink, nudge nudge stuff going on about him and the future Jags head coach job.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
Look at Schiano's situation. Everyone figured that if he bombed out of NFL he could always get a college head coaching job somewhere. He hasn't even been able to land an assistant job anywhere.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
by Marrone. His issue is that apparently, he's really arrogant and sucks at inteviewing.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
I don't think so. He's leaving after going 9-7, but with a lot of bad baggage. His assistants all hate him because they believe he only looked out for himself. It also seems like he thought he was a lock for another NFL position. And now he's revealed to have downgraded himself two levels in the move.
I think that looks a lot worse than going 6-10 in a second year.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:57 PM ^
It's not that Schiano failed; it's how Schiano failed. He combined abrasiion and arrogance with an utter lack of imagination on both sides of the ball. That doesn't make for much of a resume.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
Yeesh.....I seriously have to question if Gus Bradley supported this move or not. Talk about an uncomfortable situation - having a guy who is (allegedly) a self-serving, selfish asshole only looking out for himself (yes I'm paraphrasing his assistants) working on your staff has to make you feel REAL confident in your own job now doesnt it?
Say hello to your 2016 Jacksonville Jaguar's head coach - Doug Marrone!
January 20th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
Perhaps he went to the Jags specifically to coach Denard. That would be an excellent decision.
January 20th, 2015 at 7:54 PM ^
Marrone coaches the OL, Denard is a RB.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:28 PM ^
Marrone gets paid his full salary NOT to coach a team when he wasn't in step with the ownership, takes one year to coach a team that should be much improved next year, claims credit for that, then is top of the list for every HC opening next year, all the while still collecting from the Bills. Sounds pretty smart to me.
January 20th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
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January 20th, 2015 at 2:03 PM ^
January 20th, 2015 at 8:13 PM ^
Marrone is worse than a job hopper, he's the captain of the Costa Concordia who bailed out on his passengers (the players) and his crew (the assistant coaches).
So much for "the team, the team, the team".
January 20th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
Marrone leaving gave us the opportunity to talk to ty wheatley...so WIN for us!
January 20th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
The only reason I would care about this thread is if Marrone's hiring at Jacksonville affects Denard's prospects for landing the lead tailback position for the Jaguars next season. Then again, that the criterion by which I evalaute most current events.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^
Didn't see it mentioned above, but Doug Marrone was Colin Cowherd's mystery candidate for the Michigan job. IIRC, he said Michigan fans would be very happy to have Marrone. Sucks we ended up with Harbaugh...
.@ESPN_Colin reveals his mystery Michigan candidate....it was Buffalo's Doug Marrone. #HERDSource #DidntHappen
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) December 31, 2014
January 20th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^
Michigan fans would've been furious with Marrone
January 20th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
Doug Marrone's "dream" was to be the head football coach at Syracuse University, his alma mater. At his introductory press conference there, he said that he was worried about breaking down because there's “Not a lot of times in your life can you actually accomplish your dream.” (About 5:40 into this clip.) . . . Maybe he's working his way back to Syracuse.
January 20th, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
and it is absolutely baffling that you would walk away from a head coaching position without having another one lined up. I guess when you have a $4M golden parachute, it might be a risk worth taking, it just didnt have the payoff.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
goes wrong.
January 20th, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^
Bills seemingly got off lucky with this guy.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
I just don't get this coaching move at all.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:09 PM ^
I would have paid not to have to work at my last job. It was that bad. Sometimes jobs just suck and no matter the cost to your reputation you can't do it any more.
January 20th, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
He left the Bills for greener pastures, got a worse job, and the Bills probably got a coaching upgrade in the process. You're underqualified for the NFL anyway
January 20th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
This seems like sour grapes. He went 6-10 and then 9-7. This past year's 9-7 record was the best record Buffalo has had since 2004. It's been a decade since you could call your team a winner, and you're laughing that he's gone? Hmmm...
(I'm a Lions fan, so I'm not trashing the Bills. My team has had its own struggles, but I also wouldn't be pointing and laughing if our best coach in a decade voluntarily left to take an assistant job with one of the worst teams in the league.)