Romeo Redux?
Apparently Fewell left without a deal and the Giants have now turned their focus to Romeo Crennel. Now Romeo was a Giant assistant for a hell of a long time, spanning the Perkins through Handley eras. He was the special teams coach, when specials were not very good, and then he became the DL coach when Lamar Leachman retired. He did a good job there. Then he went off to work for Parcells and Belichick in their gigs, rising up to DC under Belichick before being made a head coach of the Browns and not doing very well. I like Romeo. Two of his rings are Giant rings. Here's the thing, though, he's old, and his favored D is the 3-4. Our parts, like Osi and Tuck are made for a 4-3. Now people will say, he can coach a 4-3, but honestly, I've never seen him coach anything well when it wasn't under a Bill. So that's my big concern. Like Romeo, but think he's a bad fit, and Tom Coughlin cannot afford to whiff again on a DC. Go Giants.
posted by Kalel9 @ 2:23 PM
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Crennel would not be high on my list as a DC. I was hoping to get younger and more aggressive. However Phil, don't you think that Romeo had to pick up a great deal of defensive coaching ability all of those years under the two Bills?
Couldn't tell from watching the Browns.
Phil, typically I agree with you the majority of time, but this I just dont know. Honestly I can say I haven't watched much of the Browns, but what I did see was them kick the living daylight out of the Giants under his watch holding a 13 win team to 14 points and take a team that had very marginal talent to a 10-6 record one season
Stephen, you'll recall we destroyed them in preseason that year and basically went into the regular season game completely dismissing them.
Coughlin is old. We should be hiring a DC and OC that have the potential to succeed him in a few years. Maybe that's what he is afraid of and he is reacting against hit.
TBH, given his abysmal coordinator hires, it's absurd that he has any say in these hires.
Phil, remember little Bill with the Browns. He won 3 Super Bowls after that. I'm not a big Romeo fan and I hope this is not our choice, but if he is chosen I am willing to give him support until he proves otherwise.
may that be, but it still does take something to get that bad of a team to play as well as they did. Our team was far superior than theirs and they came out that night to play us hard on national television. Getting a bad team to try hard seems to be the same reason you wanted Fewell.
I know Romeo stumbled big time down the stretch that season but was it his fault Braylon Edwards couldn't catch a pass to save his life? the defense was able to keep the opponents scores in the teens or lower for at least half their games despite a terrible offense that would turn the ball right over. They kept the scores low enough to win, but an offense that had 6 pro bowlers the previous season just disappeared
Romeo had far more losses than fluke victories in Cleveland where he was two and throough.
John, I'm not gonna root against Romeo. I just thinks it's a crappy plan.
Little Bill was 25 years younger than Romeo when he left Cleveland. I think the comparison is inapt.
im gonna preface this by saying Romeo isn't my top choice, but just looking at it statistically Romeo in his 4 years in Cleveland had a defense in the top half of the NFL in pts per game twice, while having an offense at 30 or below in ppg 3 out of the 4 years, with probably two, maybe three guys on that defense good enough to start with the Giants in Shaun Rodgers and Dqwell Jackson.
Romeo's first year there he had the #32 ranked offense with the #11 ranked defense, and his second year, his worst season statistically with the #22 ranked defense his offense had was ranked 32 in the NFL in turnovers. His last season with the Browns though even with a 4-12 record he held the 12-4 colts to 10 points and had the 2nd most INTs in the NFL
There could be positives to hiring Romeo, but it's hardly an inspired choice, and it wouldn't speak well of Coughlin. But it could work.
I think Crennel would be a good choice for a DC, think the defense would be in good hands, my biggest problem with the choice though would be who knows if Coughlin will even want to coach past his current contract, say he hangs it up after this one, who do you promote?
Believe me, if he's the choice I hope he booms, but I don't like take shots on 62 year old boom or bust prospects while we still have out championship window open.
Phil, Rock just tweeted me back saying that Perry still has a shot
He's not out. RT @MichaelL1234: @newsdaygiants Tom no shot Perry winds up as the DC?
Let's give our new unknown DC a good start with Rolando McClain as an inside linebacker. This kid has star written all over him.
Vacchiano:
Perry Fewell had a good talk with Tom Coughlin about the Giants’ vacant defensive coordinator job earlier today, but the ex-Bills coach made it clear before the interview began that he would make no decisions on his next job until after talking with the Chicago Bears next week.
Dotino told me that Perry is still in the running
That seems to be the case.
I hope so too Phil. As I have previously mentioned if TC hangs his hat on Romeo, we are likely talking this time next year of who we will hire as TC's replacement.
They're checking in on Jim Mora Jr's intentions.
interesting... Rock speculated that if Ross goes to Seattle he may bring Gilbride with him..
I like Mora Jr more then Romeo, some guys are just cut out to be co-ordinators and nothing more..
Aren't there dynamic young position coaches somewhere that should be on the fast track because they're so bright and innovative? That's what I want for coordinators on both sides of the ball.
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