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Puppy Kicker
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Age: 41
Posts: 8,341
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Redskins should pursue Russ Grimm:
Russ Grimm will be off the coaching market this year. If we really want to setup a stable and successful franchise, we need to start at the top. Rarely does a team have the chance to bring back a legend of a player as a coach, who has already had a fruitful coaching career as a high profile assistant. The problem is that I doubt we can get a coach of this caliber once Gibbs decides to hang it up. We can promote Williams, which personally, I'm in favor of -- but with the recent slump in the defense he wouldn't be a popular hire.
There's one thing in our way right now. We already have a head coach, and while his coaching has shown up as mediocre at best the last three years, he's too popular to fire and Snyder is infatuated with him. My thought is this, pursue Grimm, see what it would take to hire him as our head coach right now. There are no problems with interviewing a candidate. All of this with Joe Gibbs knowing. If Gibbs wants this franchise to continue, it's time for him to hand the reigns over to Grimm who could be a stable and longtime coaching force here. However, I don't want Gibbs to step down, I want him to be given one of those assistant head coach positions. This would help Grimm get adjusted to head coaching and have someone who has seen it all to fall back on, ask questions, and learn from. I simply don't see the Redskins able to get a head coach like Grimm once Gibbs decides he's done. Grimm will be a head coach this off-season, and I'd prefer we have him instead of any other team. Curious what you guys think.
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