Raid
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The profile says he has a girlfriend, an attractive younger blonde.
Cooper?
The profile says he has a girlfriend, an attractive younger blonde.
He may still be gay of course. I don't care what he does in his bedroom. All I care about is that he can coach, and he certainly seems like he can.
My concern with Chip, coaching wise, is that I think he settled on some mediocre assistants at certain spots, probably because he had too since the NFL establishment thought he was going to fall on his face. Billy Davis, I am looking at you, bud.
The worrying part of that profile was the tidbit that said he hired Billy Davis because he was recommended to him by Urban Meyer, who is a friend of Davis--Davis was best man at his wedding.
I think Davis is a mediocre coach. Same with Shurmur. I think Chip hired these guys because he wanted some people with NFL experience, but he couldn't get really good people with NFL experience. Hopefully he upgrades in a few years to better assistants, now that he seems to be part of the NFL fraternity and other coaches seem to respect him.
I think Davis has done a decent job of shifting to a 3-4 D. He had a tough task and that probably also scared away more capable coordinators. But I don't get the sense that he is the most innovative defensive mind. He is basically trying to run a 1990s Pittsburgh zone-blitz scheme, and that's OK, but the talent right now is not enough to make a scheme like that work in vanilla mode.