Im probably going to get killed bringing up possible future DC to replace sutton but im a huge fan of this guy. He has won 3 SB as a coach on the pats and 2 SB as a player. Hes a proven winner and knows a lot about our "system". He would make all the sense in the world as our DC. Im sorry but at times sutton looks like he doesnt know whats going on AT ALL. I was doubting the decision of promoting him as soon as i heard about it.
I don't think it is a matter of coaching at this point. The players are still learning the scheme and we don't have a NT or a passrushing OLB on this defense.
I got a bad feeling about hiring Sutton from within after he was a holdover assistant from Herm for a number of years. I know he comes from the Parcells coaching tree yadda yadda, but the guy just doesn't make any adjustments that seem to work very well and the players are looking very undisciplined. Missing tackles all day long was something I expected to see from a Cottrell defense, not now. We should have some sort of fundamental discipline being displayed on the field and I don't see a lot of it. If we are going to realize a hiring mistake was made, doing it as soon as possible is probably the best thing to do for a rebuilding team. Keep the system, can the coach.
I think Jim Hermann also would get some consideration. Was the defensive coordinator at Michigan and is linebackers coach now. Supposebly a guy down the road who could be a HC candidate. Of course that's all speculation but from a few things I've read he's suppossed to be a very astute guy.
Linebacker on both Giants Superbowl teams, A Jet for two years until his retirement in 1998. Two-time probowler.
I doubt Crennel gets fired after only two years, but if he did, I hope he'd be interested in being the DC under Mangini.
I can remember going to the Buckeyes games when he played. He'd make a sack, and in the primitive days before jumbo-trons, the computerized scoreboard would show a pepper shaker bouncing up and down and the graphics would read: "You Got Peppered" and then a pair of Mickey-Mouse hands would clap. Drove the crowd nuts.
