Posted by TMS:
yo V, was Accorsi credited w/picking Brandon Jacobs, Osi & Kiwanuka or was that all Reese?
Those were very much "Reese" specials, though maybe a little less so with Kiwanuka. You can see a distinctive shift in philosophy when Reese took over as director of college scouting starting with that Osi draft. Ernie liked to draft a lot of big school guys, especially big 10 guys, who had a lot of name value, but weren't really elite athletes. Guys like Dayne, Short, Nick Griesen, Joe Montgomery, Pete Monty etc. With Reese all of a sudden you started to see us draft these freakish athletes with great measurables and great production at their respective schools- but not always at a big name school. He always had some input as a scout, but as he got more responsbilitity you could see the shift in talent he brought in.
Accorsi was also well known for being very loose lipped with the press and telegraphing his moves as he did with drafting Dayne and Shockey. He also wasn't fully on board with TC as coach and undermined that a little. TC was the choice of the Mara's and even though it was a foregone conclusion he'd be hired, he flirted with hiring a guy like Nick Saban whom he always liked. Because of that it was speculated we ended up losing out on a couple of assistants who were the first choice of Coughlin like Gregg Williams (who became the Skins' DC) and Bill Callahan (the old raiders coach, who took the Nebraska job).
We have good coordinators now, but imagine if we didn't have to sit the through the first 2-3 years with Tim Lewis and John Hufnagel.
1/21/2008 4:52 PM