Coaching Carousel 2026

[Dom McRaven]

This is for the "McDaniel as OC, SIIE" folks out here.

 

[Rusfan]

 

[Grim]

Please God make this happe

SIIE

 

[Davesta]

This is for the "McDaniel as OC, SIIE" folks out here.

It’s getting Twitter loud…

This gonna be a major case of blue balls if he ends up going to Chargers lol

 

[JoeyFlex5]

You’re a trip. lol

You’re a good sport lol

 

[JoeyFlex5]

To me, he should've been fired on the spot if we had lost to the Bears. How you still gonna go with the all-out blitz and leave our bum ass 4th string CBs on an island like that?

Maybe not on the spot but he got fired after that season and iirc that disaster was mentioned lol

 

[29BmoreBird22]

So harbaugh taught a brilliant defensive mind how to be middle management material and that means he’s under harbaugh’s nonexistent coaching tree

There are two people you don't insult around Tank-

Harbaugh and Flacco

I don't know who the third in the holy trinity of Ravens is (probably EDC).

 

[JoeyFlex5]

I know what you are doing but lets fill this in

Buddy Ryan
Rex Ryan
Rob Ryan
Ray Rhodes
Mike Singletary
Ron Rivera
Wade Phillips
Leslie Frazier
Wink
Macdonald
Minter

Brian Billick all time elite defensive coaching tree

 

[RavensMania]

Brian Billick all time elite defensive coaching tree

oh i'm sure all trees go under vince lombardi some way or another

 

[JoeyFlex5]

This is for the "McDaniel as OC, SIIE" folks out here.

 

[Raven y de Velez]

Is too good to be true. Right? RIGHT??

If it happens, the hype would be out of this World

 

[Rusfan]

Chris Horton to the Giants

 

[Rusfan]

 

[rossihunter2]

Sim pressures and positionless fronts is definitely where Wink’s imprint was made, but his style flamed out very quickly without Mac and minter to design and coach the part of the scheme that allows your fronts to get home.

So far it seems like only Mac and Minter have been able to pull this off and they are both head coaches now.

And really if you wanna go this route, Dean pees brought the seeds from NE and planted them here a long time ago, the sim pressures, rotating coverages, and hybrid looks were a Pees staple, wink came in and put that system on steroids and then Mac refined it for the modern era. Only one who’s made it really work long term has been these 2 guys.

I really think Mike Mac is the father of this coaching tree we’re about to see over the next decade.

i mean ultimately there's nothing new in football - things will be somewhat cyclical as teams endless problem solve
in that sense, you can say anything came from anyone

the reason i didnt go back to pees and started at wink was that in the 2018 offseason there was a distinct attempt to redesign and reinvent the defence and its defensive principles

it's not that they invented sim pressures or the philosophy of zero blitz and coverage disguises - it's about the way they created a defence designed to look complex but be simple to understand for those within the system

and macdonald himself took that idea even further with what is now referred to as the "modular defence" - the teaching and playcalling parts of the modular defence are the thing that make it innovative - and the foundations of that defensive idea start in 2018 with Wink, MM, Minter, Weddle, Mosley and Sizzle

i do think you could make the argument that MM is the true top of this tree - i think that's a better description of its lineage than dean pees

i think the problem with that system disseminating around the league is that it's difficult to coach and run it - everyone wants to run either that defence or the vic fangio defence (similar philosophies, different implementation) but as you've said, no one's really been successful yet other than MM and Minter who were both part of it's initial design - dennard wilson probably has got closest... Orr and Weaver were clearly unsuccessful

 

[Simba]

Seems more and more like Minter has his guys in mind now

Still hilarious how they're just becoming the new Baltimore team in NY up there

 

[All_black_everything]

 

[rossihunter2]

So harbaugh taught a brilliant defensive mind how to be middle management material and that means he’s under harbaugh’s nonexistent coaching tree

does that mean that Gary Kubiak is technically part of Harbaugh's tree and not mike shanahan's?
same for rex ryan?

 

[UPennChem]

Thank goodness Horton is gone lol.

Im actually so happy. I was beyond done with all 3 coordinators and the HC.

 

[UPennChem]

does that mean that Gary Kubiak is technically part of Harbaugh's tree and not mike shanahan's?
same for rex ryan?

With no disrespect at all, what @Tank said was just too simplistic to be meaningful. For the exact reason you laid out there.

 

[rossihunter2]

This is for the "McDaniel as OC, SIIE" folks out here.

I did see rumblings that when McDaniel cancelled his meeting with the Bills he was in Florida... in Pompano beach...