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00:00Doug Marone, former Bills and Jags head coach, is going to be the offensive line coach for
00:05Mike Rabel.
00:06Thomas Brown is going to be the tight ends coach and passing game coordinator.
00:10He was an interim head coach for the Bears, not that it went great last year once he became
00:13the interim head coach, but these are veteran coaches who aren't first-timers, littered
00:19throughout the coaching staff like it was a year ago.
00:22And the irony, Keith, as you said earlier, Gerard Mayo is the one who needed all these
00:26guys.
00:27Needed all these guys.
00:28Gerard Mayo needed.
00:29Gerard Mayo needed McDaniels.
00:30He needed Doug Marone.
00:31He needed Thomas Brown or people like that.
00:35And they gave him none of it, where with Rabel, they're doing it.
00:37So I'm not criticizing them for bringing in experienced coaches with Rabel.
00:41That's good.
00:42And I like that it's not just all Rabel guys from Tennessee, too.
00:45That's another nice byproduct of this.
00:47Yeah.
00:48Guys from like Ohio State.
00:49They hire a Texas A&M guy.
00:50Like there's like young guys.
00:51There's old guys.
00:52There's all kinds of stuff.
00:53Marone, if I'm not mistaken, Marone and Bill O'Brien have a connection, which I think is
00:56illustrated by him spending last year at BC.
00:59But I remember when Bill O'Brien was the OC here a couple of years ago, there was some
01:02talk of him and Marone being a package deal.
01:04I think they might have overlapped at Alabama.
01:06Is that right?
01:07Uh, Alabama in 2021.
01:09I think they might have overlapped at Alabama, if I'm not mistaken.
01:12So there's a connection there.
01:14And maybe that's the connection for Rabel through Bill O'Brien, who Rabel was the D.C.
01:20for O'Brien in Houston.
01:21Maybe that's the connection.
01:22Thomas Brown, I think, is from the McVeigh tree, if I'm not mistaken.
01:25Right.
01:27Did he come from the Rams before he went to the Bears?
01:28Do I have that wrong?
01:29That sounds right.
01:30So, you know, those are not necessarily Rabel guys from Tennessee.
01:35And I like that they're getting outside that comfort zone a bit, but they're spending on
01:39real coaches.
01:40These aren't just interns promoted to the next job.
01:43These are real NFL coaches.
01:45And while they're saving a few bucks on Josh McDaniels, because he's still getting paid
01:48by the Raiders, hopefully they're spending on these guys.
01:50Let's say that's a good sign for the crafts.
01:53Although, as the Twitch chat pointed out earlier, expensive coaching staff equals cheaping
01:57out on the roster, which I guess remains to be seen.
02:00That's a fair point.
02:01We don't know yet.
02:02They haven't had the opportunity to spend money on players yet in free agency or bring
02:05in guys and trade that they're going to have to sign to new deals yet.
02:09I do think overall, this is somewhat promising, though.
02:12I'll take the small, positive step forward.