So I posted on the Geaux247 boards about Russ Callaway. Afterwards I was surprised when Shea Dixon responded to me and what news he revealed. A lot of us were big Russ for OC fans, here's my post and I'll share Shea's reply only because some jerk already put it on TigerDroppings and Shea said he's discussed it on the radio before so it's alright. My post: I wanted Russ Callaway promoted. He knew the spread. He had already been in the building and knew all of our talent and their strengths and weaknesses. Russ also clearly had a great relationship and rapport with Max. Peyton Manning: "The quickest way to screw up a young quarterback in my opinion is giving him no continuity, no stability. Keep changing systems and that's how you ruin a young qb. " O wanted somehow to sell Joe Brady to the fans. Sell 2019 to the fans. That's how we end up with DJ, Munoz, and a guy who knows Brady running things. It was a salesman trying to make a sale. It was not evaluating what was best for your young quarterback, his development, and the health of your team. It was trying to win the press conference. Not the game. Maybe Russ Callaway would have done no better, but he has already shown he could get Max the plays quickly and that made him confident with a bad offensive line and little run game.. many of us who wanted Russ got mocked, but sometimes it's better with the devil you know. Now, Shea replied that Russ Callaway made it very clear to those in the industry O to his face flat out promised him an on field job. He would go from being an analyst to at least PGC with a chance to be OC. He already had a great relationship with our guys especially with Max and was super excited to stay and continue his upward trajectory. Then next thing he knows he's watching O introduce Peetz as OC with DJ as PGC. What? He was promised to his face one job with a chance at the other and.. that's how he was done. (Not the first story I've heard like this regarding O and jobs by the way.) Russ' dad is a legendary high school football coach in Alabama. He's coached under Saban before. Grew up in the business. He knows how coaches treat other coaches. How you should anyway. It's a very small community as we saw when Matt Canada suffered finding many jobs after he was deemed difficult to work with here. This is the kind of thing going on behind the scenes. So Russ left and went to join rising star Joe Judge who was set to be the Mississippi State head coach at his Alma mater before the New York Giants interviewed him and gave him their job. Leach ended up there instead as the fallback option. Judge and Russ just beat the Saints on Sunday in the Dome. Anyway. That's one of the many, many stories going on and shines a light on why we're with two very green coordinators right now and not established high profile guys. Guys don't want to work with or for O. That's the word in the coaching community. BTW, I highly recommend Geaux247 if you're into recruiting. Shea is the best. Sonny and Billy are fantastic and it's well worth the subscription if you're ever on the fence. You also get Paramount+ for free with your subscription.
Don't think it works that way, @Herb. CBS Viacom or whatever bought 247sports.com and decided to give Paramount+ as a free addition. Think that sub is way cheaper than the 247 subscription is.. but they run deals all the time, if it's like 120 or 100 for the year you can find a deal fairly regularly for the first year at half price for new users. The Athletic is really good too and has a lot of deals regularly. Next time a good deal pops up I'll try to mention it. But if you do have the P+ sub you could cancel it if you wanted to try 247sports.com and save some and still have P+.
A good concept, quality writers, and a group that jumped the shark at the beginning of the riots. They've been looking for investors for quite a while now: it's a sinking ship that's driven off subcribers. They are 100 million in the red the last two years.
Yeah, I heard everyone basically hates Stewart Mandell for being so woke essentially? He's off putting to me for sure, but I love Staples, Feldman, and their writers by and large are quite good. That's a shame. Great info, @TerryP
Been a while since someone has done that. Used to happen all the time on my Saints message board days, lol. That's cool though, @tzanghi the more the merrier. Don't imagine our site was given any credit? Got a link?
"Trickle down deprecation." We saw it years ago in the print media, it made its way down to the main stream media, and now it's in our sports arenas. "We don't like what you think or what you're doing and we're going to tell the world." You're right, it was a group—not limited to The Athletic or just Mandell—that took every opportunity to tell us how they didn't approve of how others where handling C-19. And, you're really hitting the nail on the head with one observation: they're great writers. But when you read someone for coverage and all you get out of an article is how they don't like what you think or what you're doing? A sure recipe for success on a subscription service, right? What I found fascinating was watching the content change when he and his wife left the southest and moved to California. He literally changed. I find it funny that after they'd bled 10's of thousands of subscribers Mandell published a "mea-culpa" blaming how isolated he and his wife had become living in California. It wasn't a "back-track" or a "psedo-apology." It was "the environment I live in made me do this." To many of these writers are being placed behind paywalls with their companies thinking "fans will pay for the opinions and observations of these guys." (See Bill Connelly, ESPN.) Even at a miniscule amount of a few bucks a month...it's just not worth the cost.
Nope, no credit although your name is there because he copied that too. https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/lsu-sports/interesting-article247/98782561/
