SEC Coaching Analysis: A Friend in Hand

Published on: 18th August, 2010

The uneasiness around Vanderbilt football head coach Bobby Johnson’s abrupt departure transformed almost completely into jubilation for successor Robbie Caldwell’s prospects within a 24-hour time period in the week after the retirement announcement. Hot on the heels of Caldwell’s standing ovation from the rabid press at SEC Media Days came the ...

The Tennessee Titan’s Titanic Collapse Continues

Published on: 20th October, 2009

From 0-1 to 0-and-deep-sixed, the default sound byte in the Tennessee Titans’ locker room this year has been some mild variation of “We move on,” an empty mantra that fills the otherwise stunned silence of their precipitous fall from grace.   "Honestly,” linebacker Keith Bulluck said, “I just kinda run out of ...

NFL Coaching Carousel: Kansas City Chiefs

Published on: 19th July, 2009

The Skinny  Coming off an AFC and franchise-worst 2-14 season, the Chiefs finally decided it couldn’t get any worse, mercifully ending the Herm Edwards experiment that cost them a fourth-round pick in 2006 and even jettisoning their grand poobah of two-plus decades: CEO/president/general manager Carl Peterson. In his first major move ...

NFL Coaching Carousel: Oakland Raiders

Published on: 18th July, 2009

The Skinny: “The Great-ness of the Raid-uhs...” used to be the eccentric beacon call of one of the great innovators from the old AFL treading the frontier of gridiron success. Now it’s simply the caricatured bleating of an old man whose front office, far more than any other in the ...