Steelers hire Tomlin

[sportscurmudgeon]

Saden1:

You said Grimm could have become the next Andy Reid. That's possible. But it is also just as possible that he could have become the next Wayne Fontes. As of this moment, he's been the head coach of exactly nothing so we have no idea how good - - or horrid - - he might be at the job.


TAFKAS:

A friend of mine has a few pretty good "NFL sources"; it's his job to cultivate such sources. According to my friend and his sources, Grimm is not only selective about the interviews he takes and the jobs he will consider, he is ALSO very rigid and demanding in his interviews about the conditions under which he will take a job.

That can be great for him if those rigidities are well founded and based on a really well thought out plan. But, they have to be a bit "off-putting" to an owner interviewing someone who has never been a head coach or even a coordinator yet. That owner is sitting there listening to a guy tell him how things are going to be with the owner's team and with the owner's participation BEFORE this newbie coach is even hired.

I do NOT know if all that is true; but that is the "talk on the drums". IF that is the case, then Grimm is making it difficult on himself to get his first head coaching job; on the other hand, when he does get one, it will be the one he wants in terms of the working conditions and the "pecking order".

BTW, my friend tells me that Grimm's agent was contacted by the Raiders folks for an interview and Grimm turned down the interview. Some may call that arrogant; I think he's just not going to waste his time talking about a job that he knows from the outset he wouldn't take if it were offered to him.

Then again, he did interview with the Bidwells in Arizona...,