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What the Packers can’t do

Talk to coaches currently employed: Murphy can do all the background checks he wants, but he can’t talk to anyone -- head coach or assistant coach -- whose team is still playing games. As for playoff teams, he can conduct interviews during wild-card week but only if that coach works for a team that has a first-round bye. If Murphy were interested in a winning wild-card participant, he could interview that coach only in the week leading up to the divisional playoff game. No initial interviews can be conducted after the divisional weekend for any coach whose team is still alive. However, between the conference title games and the Super Bowl, an assistant who previously interviewed can have a second interview provided that his current team agrees to an acceptable time and place no later than the Sunday before the Super Bowl.

 

http://www.espn.com/blog/green...kers-coaching-search

 

so in 12 days, 20 teams seasons will end and they can begin interviewing directly with the rules above for playoff coaches. I doubt we go college ranks or unemployed retread , really thinking our next guy currently has an NFL job. If the Titans miss the playoffs I expect them to take a good look at LaFleur in the next few weeks.

One name I just don't get why people are so enamored with is Kingsbury.  The dude was 35-40 at Texas Tech.  He was just another B12 coach who thought scoring points is all you need to win and defense pfft we don't need defense.

I would rather have that old nasty Kingsbury beer (warm) that was brewed in NE Wisconsin than have Kingbury as coach. 

 

Philbin's Sunday press conference alone should disqualify him from any serious consideration. Wishy washy, indecisive talking points with zero confidence. He's contributed to the past success of the organization, but hiring him would be tantamount to Bart Starr getting "one more year." Those hometown type choices need to remain buried in the 80's Starr/Gregg regimes. 

If the new HC is tantamount to being an OC, then Kingsbury would be a good choice.  Leave Pettine and his coaches in place.  There are some other offensive minds out there that fit more the OC profile than that of the HC.  But that would make Murphy the defacto HC.  I don't think we want to go there - a power structure with miss named positions and where lines of responsibility can get blurred badly.  Not a good recipe. 

As for the justification for another round of MM by pointing out all the warts of the candidates - that is just crazy.  No one is perfect.  Lombardi, with all his imperfections, had trouble getting a HC job in his day.  Today, he wouldn't even be an after thought.  Yet, he came with a plan and an amazing ability to motivate - due in part to some of those imperfections.  I think moving on from the guy you just canned is the right thing to do now. 

Hungry5 posted:

Kingsbury, brewed in Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and St. Paul MN.

I think you could get a case of bottles for about $3.00, if you returned a case of empties.

Yep I grew up near Manitowoc and you could sometimes find a case for $2.00 to $3.00.  My Grandpa had a case of that crap in his garage and I stole one once and he just laughed and said you are doing me a favor.

We used to call it Manitowoc laxative. 

The Heckler posted:
Hungry5 posted:

Kingsbury, brewed in Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and St. Paul MN.

I think you could get a case of bottles for about $3.00, if you returned a case of empties.

Yep I grew up near Manitowoc and you could sometimes find a case for $2.00 to $3.00.  My Grandpa had a case of that crap in his garage and I stole one once and he just laughed and said you are doing me a favor.

We used to call it Manitowoc laxative. 

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This was a great summertime beer, the only place it was sold and enjoyed was Dodge County and the Oshkosh area.  It had a great head, nice color and when cold it hit the spot.  Every threshing and hay baling crew I was ever a member of had a few at the end of the hot dusty, summer day.

Unfortunately society at the time plus the  downfall of small brewery's in general caused this and many other good beers to fail.

https://onmilwaukee.com/bars/articles/peoples.html 

 

The Heckler posted:
bvan posted:
The Heckler posted:

Yep I grew up near Manitowoc.... 

Trivers ?

My Mom's family was from the East side of Trivers and my Grandpa lived on the north side.  Me? I grew up in one of those tiny farm towns about 10 minutes from Trivers. Lots of Kingsbury bottles thrown at signs in the backroads.

South 13th Street for me. Short biking distance to St. Boniface and Washington Park.

 

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