Danny Smith

I would move to Thailand and call it a career.

 

He needs bubble gum money to keep his jaw muscle definition.

 

Ok I will be the minority here, yes bubble gum had good special teams the last couple of years but during his tenure we went ages trying to find a kick returner like we were trying to find a blue chip QB. I also remember the amount of penalties we had almost like clockwork on kickoff returns and punts like holding being moved back was a given to the point on punt returns I jsut wanted us to fair catch it. Lastly didn't it always seem like we gave up a long return like clockwork after we scored so I'm not so sure, anecdotal for sure, that he was such a great special teams coach for the duration. Just my opinion and I haven't looked at the stats on opponents starting field position, penalties etc but so I'm going off of memory which admittedly may be flawed.

 

You are right. I think there is some recency bias with Smith maybe because of the key blocks they a season or two ago. But I agree there were long streaks of poor coverage, penalties, and poor returns. I don't think Smith is some irreplaceable ST coach.

 

I think a lot of the things you are referencing may have been decided on above him. They had some guys like Holmes and AB who were great at punt returns and some kick return duties but their value as starters made it so it was playing with fire to have them on ST's. Then you had guys like Davis that was a jack of all trades that Tomlin liked and gave a roster spot to. This season they rolled with their top two rb's as kick off guys and the smallish often injured Austin on punts. These were not good choices.

 

Move and retire to Florida? No a bad way to go out.

 

Smith had PHIII who could kick the ball a mile but Smith couldn’t teach him to kick it straight

Smith could not teach Kaleb Johnson the basic rules

 

Smith leaving too? Man we are cleaning house

 

yes, i'd expect all assistant coaches to go. No surprise to see them interviewing elsewhere.

 

He’s busy saving souls

Why did he leave

I see the last time he was seen was on my birthday in 2020

Hope I didn’t cause it

 

Ok I’ll blame you

 

he no likey

DE FEETS


THANKS TOMLIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Like to see Kickoff Returns become a priority.
It would be nice to start almost midfield.

Not really a fan of using your starting RB.

 

Last I remember he got mad at the kneeling…

 

I’m hoping pastorbob didn’t die saving souls

The last time he was here was November 21

 

I figured Tomlin leaving would eventually hurt the board, when 30% of members total contribution to football topics is.......Tomlin sucks. I guess they will have to find something else they think sucks.

 

FTNGI. there got it started for them.

 

From what I see the 30% are still saying Tomlin sucks

I don’t think they are capable of an intelligent original thought

 

They’ll just do the same thing they’ve always done. They’ll be making the same complaints just a different name