Theory: Putting together a staff for the future

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

Good post Matty and that may very well be Danny's thinking. However, I could see turning things over in the long term best interests of our team if we had a bad season. We won 4 of our last games and made the playoffs. What happened to the continuity? Or was the continuity Snyder and Cerrato?

I think there is a notion that continuity meant Saunders and Williams. It really shouldn't be viewed in such narrow terms, in my opinion. While certainly it'd have been beneficial to keep them, continuity isn't just about the two of them.

It's about the scouts and the front office (like it or not); it's about having built a base of young players (Doughty, Campbell, Rogers, Rocky, Montgomery, Landry, and so on) to build something with for several years, as opposed to the aging veterans we seemed to have focused in the past; and it's about several key coaches on the staff that tend to fly under the radar.

And I think the last part is the most important, the one that bears the most watching over the next several weeks. Losing Williams and Saunders alone isn't the big story, it's about the domino effect it may create (or not create.) Never mind guys like Breaux and Burns. Really, are we going to miss them? Thanks for everything, but let's not kid ourselves they were basically just like members of Gibbs' posse. The key, for me, will be what about the guys who really do the down and dirty work with the position players-Byner, Hixon, Lazor, Olivadotti, Jackson-what of them? I'm really curious to see what happens with them. None of the offensive guys really have a connection to Saunders so I don't know that they would necessarily try to follow him wherever he goes.