Spagnuolo is looking good (Defense)

Spagnola = Ultra Conservative Offense and great Defense
Mooch + Blache = Balanced Offense and great Defense

SI.com's Don Banks seems to imply that Spag's might be the frontrunner now...

SI.com - Writers - Don Banks: Super Bowl XLII Snap Judgments - Sunday February 3, 2008 11:37PM (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/don_banks/02/03/superbowl.snaps/index.html?eref=T1)

my favorite quote.

• I'm glad Art Monk made the Hall of Fame. If only because it now puts the cottage industry known as the Art-Monk-deserves-to-be-in-the-Hall-of-Fame Washington lobbyist group out of business.

I think the irony of this situation is that people don't realize is that Coughlin is an Offensive Coach. And while that itself doesn't prove that an offensive or defenisve HC is the best decision. It does endorse that balance or unstopable god-like ability on one of side of the ball is necessary to win a championship. And just so you know, the second one is extremely rare, with the last team displaying that quality being the Baltimore Ravens.

With that said I believe that hiring Spags would shift the balance to the defensive side of the ball, especially pairing him with Blache, who by the way was promised complete auntomony over the defense. While a guy like Mooch or Fassel along with Zorn would help bring balance to the Skins IMO.

Yeah, well lets not get our panties in a bunch.

If he signs here, he no longer has Pierce.

say what? fletcher is just as good as pierce. What he won't have is strahan/osi/tuck, which is why they won that game.

the three hardest guys to find are franchise QB, franchise DE, and superstud WR.

while eli and plax aren't exactly brady and moss, they've nailed the pass rushing thing three times over, and it's REALLY working for them right now.

I don't think one game should make him our coach when the current staff is already in place for a WCO offensive type. spags wouldn't be terrible for a new guy, but i'd still prefer mooch (previous HCs tend to fare much better in this league).

I think I want Spag

His unit played hard and shut down the patriots. All this shows is that he has a genuinely articulate football mind. I don't doubt that he would be a great coach for us, and after watching the game, I feel more comfortable in seeing hime bring that mentality to DC

Don't know about the Spags logic here...He just won a SB as the DC but I don't know that he can handle a HC job. Plus we already have continuity on Defense with Blache...WHy do we want another defensive guy coming in and messing with things? Why not get an offensive guy, who will work with Zorn (who is himself inexperienced)? Mooch is starting to shakeout as my favorite candidate...Besides, he is worth it for his "Mic'd up" segments on the sideline when he is yelling at refs and shouting to players, jk. But seriously the guy deserves his own show for those sound bites.

After watching the G-Men defense come together this year... shut down the Cowboys and Pack on the road... make the Patriots offense look weak. My pick is officially Spags.

If we draft a freaking monster DE then maybe we can duplicate the giants success no matter who is coaching

Absolutely, but to do so we need defensive coaches who would put pressure on the FO to actually draft a monster DE. For years, the Skins have been in love with drafting secondary and LB's, completely forgoing d-line.

I'll give you guys the Giants line is much better then ours, but....don’t you feel that our LB's, and secondary are better. What I'm getting at with Spag’s is that he will have better talent in two other departments + we are just stupid if we don’t draft D-End with our first pick this year. I could go Moch or Spags at this point, but it’s hard to decide as we have absolutly 0 insights into who wanted the coordinators that we have already hired.