This isn't a promotion. George wants to coach the OL, and George is P's guy. Whether anyone thinks he will be better than Foley or not is not part of the decision process.
Wouldn't surprise me if this is a precursor to encouraging Foley to move on after one more year, as was the demotion of Morehead.
This is how I read it as well. Don't like it.
This isn't a promotion. George wants to coach the OL, and George is P's guy. Whether anyone thinks he will be better than Foley or not is not part of the decision process.
Wouldn't surprise me if this is a precursor to encouraging Foley to move on after one more year, as was the demotion of Morehead.
???? Are you really suggesting there what I think your suggesting? maybe that was just some kind of misfire on the thought processes. You're smarter than that.
All the news of this potential coaching move does, is make me all the more curious as to who the next QB coach is going to be.
DeLeone is an experienced offensive line coach, but I'm not sure I want my offensive coordinator spending his time on the oline. But I agree that once you hire a coach you need to give hime the keys and let him drive his way. I really like Foley and what he's done, too. I think we'll see what happens. If we start getting outstnding tight end play next year, well...
Carl, Unless the staff really screwed up, I think we have a pretty solid guess as to who starts at quarterback next year. You don't go out and bring in a highly rated JUCO unless you plan to use him. In Whtmer's case it is a little different in that he has 3 years eligibility apparently, but that tells you something else, I think.
As noted, all this hire really does for me, is make me even more curious as to who's going to be added to the staff.
The coaching moves make good sense to me. Deleone has coached both pass block and run block on the OL for longer than most of us have been alive, and not just coached it, coached it effectively. Foley is a very good offensive coach, but has been very run heavy on the OL as a coach his entire career really, since Dartmouth, but he is a good coach and offensive mind, and has been both a receivers coach, and an offensive coordinator, as well as head coach.
In the pro-set offense, the TE is the most versatile and most mentally demanding position, aside from the guy actually taking the snaps from center. The TE, in the type of offense that I think we're moving toward, can line up in an offensive formation in tight to the offensive line traditional, or in the backfield, as a flanker, a slot, or a split end.
If these moves happen, putting Foley in charge of that, seems like a pretty good thing to me, while putting Deleone in charge of the OL, in year two of the system, and needing both pass protect and run block, is a pretty good thing to me too.
But I'm more curious than ever as to who's going to be working w/ the QB's, and if/how that person may or may not be involved with the overall offensive coordinator responsibilities.
I dunno, but I hope Moorhead takes Cerosimo with him as his WR coach.So, did Wholley follow Moorhead to Fordham?
A BIG PLUS 1 Samcro!!!I dunno, but I hope Moorhead takes Cerosimo with him as his WR coach.
I don't like it either. But we've given P the car keys, and he has every right to drive it his way.
Deleone was also the O-line coach for the SD Chargers in 1997 under Kevin Gilbride. This move doesn't surprise me. I'm more surprised that Foley didn't get an offer to coach for Edsall at Maryland.