Bertil
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PFT offers something that I suspected when I heard the news yesterday.
http://beta.profootballtalk.com/2008/02/22/is-capers-the-contingency-plan/
Just a contingency plan? Do the Krafts know something we don't yet know? Interesting or as Matt Drudge might say "developing..."
http://beta.profootballtalk.com/2008/02/22/is-capers-the-contingency-plan/
IS CAPERS THE CONTINGENCY PLAN?
Posted by Mike Florio on February 22, 2008, 9:31 a.m.
Several members of PFT Planet have raised an intriguing question about the addition of Dom Capers to the coaching staff in New England.
Is Capers, as one reader put it, the “break glass in case of emergency” option in the event that Spygate II goes to hell in a handbasket and Bill Belichick gets suspended by the league and/or fired by the team?
The answer might lie in Capers’ contract, which almost certainly will never be exposed to the light of day. If there’s a written provision making him the head coach in the event of any sudden “incapacity” of Belichick, then this means that the powers-that-be have planned for the possibility, however remote it might be, that something bad could happen if/when Matt Walsh ever shows what he has and says what he knows.
By having Capers’ elevation reduced to writing, the Pats wouldn’t be required to adhere to the Rooney Rule if/when a vacancy arises. Indeed, if the worst-case scenario (i.e., NFL suspends Belichick and the evidence is sufficiently compelling to force Bob Kraft to fire him) unfolds in, say, June, the franchise surely would want to make a quick transition. Starting a coaching search from scratch wouldn’t be the way to make that happen.
The other possibility is that offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels would be elevated to head coach and Capers would take over the defense. But McDaniels is still on the “ridiculously freaking young” side, and Capers has nine years of experience as a head coach with two expansion teams.
Just a contingency plan? Do the Krafts know something we don't yet know? Interesting or as Matt Drudge might say "developing..."