Albert Breer: Potential GM and OC pairings if Jerod Mayo is HC
On Zolak & Bertrand, Albert Breer of SI and MMQB joined the show and gave some potential general manager and offensive coordinator pairings if Jerod Mayo is head coach.
How do we get a Shanahan type of guy…
Marc Bertrand: All right, give us those two names. Jerod Mayo is head coach, who runs the offense and who runs the front office.
Breer: All right. I do think you’d want to bring in an experienced GM. So the two names I would give you for the front office are Jon Robinson, who I think did a pretty good job in Tennessee. He’s been a general manager before and was the college scouting director here, so he’d be one.
The other one would be Adam Peters if you wanted to go with somebody who’s got a little more experience outside. He hasn’t been a GM, but he won a championship in Denver. He’s been to a Super Bowl in San Francisco, so he worked under John Elway and with John Fox and Gary Kubiak with the Broncos. He was brought to Denver by Josh McDaniels because he worked in New England before that. But then in San Francisco, obviously was brought there by John Lynch, who had worked a little bit with the Broncos to learn the ropes under Elway. So those would be the two names on the personnel side. On the coaching side, now, I think it’ll probably be O’Brien if Mayo stays, right?
Scott Zolak: I think if it’s Mayo, Billy stays.
Breer: I think so too and I agree with that. But if you’re talking about like wanting to look outside, right? And I think what everybody would be looking at is like, how do we get a Shanahan guy in here. So there are two names then that I think would be… and this is off the top my head and could do more research into it later.
But the two names off the top of my head are Brian Fleury. I believe now the pass game coordinator with San Francisco. He is the next one in that line. Bobby Slowik was taken. So you had Mike McDaniel, who is sort of Kyle’s right hand man. He goes to Miami. Then Bobby Slowik moved into a version of that role over time when Mike LaFleur left, right. So Mike LaFleur leaves, then Bobby Slowik becomes kind of the next guy up. DeMeco (Ryans takes) him to Houston with him, and he’s obviously done a great job with C.J. Stroud down there. Brian Fleury is the next one.