It’s that time of the year when NFL head coaches are hired and fired. Here’s some of the latest news.
Joe Judge, we understand, is set join the New York Giants and the Carolina Panthers have signed Matt Rhule.
Now out of the divisional playoffs, both teams have moved quickly to anchor their coaching teams.
Judge, 38, comes to the Giants from old rivals, the New England Patriots. Working under head coach Bill Belichick he was their coordinator and wide receivers coach so he should know a thing or two.
Shop talk had also linked Rhule to the Giants but the Panthers beat them to it. They grabbed him as soon as it became clear he was not a certainty for the G-Men
Rhule will be coming to Panthers out of College football – but with a sky-high reputation. In his latest stint with Baylor, he has dramatically turned around the Bears fortunes in the Big 12.
Rhule getting lucrative six-year deal
“A model of leadership and durability he is also the most underpaid of the group,” Benjamin added.
Jenkins, without doubt, played a key role in Eagles charge into the NFC wild-card playoffs on Sunday.
Unfortunately that’s where their charge ended. The Eagles went down 17-9 to the Seattle Seahawks and are now out of Super Bowl contention. However the 31-year-old two-time Super Bowl winner insists he did more than enough to warrant more money. He might also have seen Benjamin’s comment about his pay.
“I won’t be back under the same deal,” he told reporters on Monday. “That won’t happen. … It’s like anything else. You set your value on the market.
“The market is good for safeties right now, and I consider myself to be in the top tier of that group.”
Rivera now with Redskins
In December the Panthers fired Ron Rivera who only last week was appointed as the Washington Redskins’ head coach.
Judge, meanwhile, will replace Pat Shurmur at the Giants. His task will be to turn around a team who have not won a playoff game since their Super Bowl triumph in 2011.
The exciting but turnover-prone quarterback Daniel Jones should be one of the key players in his bounce-back bid. Running back Saquon Barkley, the former NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, could be another.
With Mike McCarthy having officially joined Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday, the only remaining vacancy in the NFL right now is with the Cleveland Browns.
And the hard-to-believe rumblings here are that the Browns been talking to the mighty Bill Belichick.
Mike McCarthy officially hired as #DallasCowboys head coach.
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