Honestly, I liked Tomsula just am not sure he's a HC. We'll see, but the players love the guy. Maybe he's this generations John Madden. Maybe he's Dave Campo. Remains to be seen.
I don't hate the Mangini choice nearly as much as some other do, but the bottom line is that niners run fairly simplistic schemes and let their talent shine instead of trying to trick people as you need to with inferior talent. Vic called very few blitzes.
Point here is Mangini would have to really screw up to mess this up. Seahawks got better with Quinn and I don't see a huge falloff coming with Richard.
I also LOVE the position coaches, particularly Pendergast, Tarver, and Lewis. Tomsula will surely still get his hands dirty with the D-Linemen.
Bottom line here, not worried about defense...at least not from the coaching perspective.
Offense?
Different story. Underwhelmed by Chryst.
I like Logan actually after researching him some and listening to him on the radio. He loves mobile QBs. Coached Jeff Blake and David Gerrard at ECU and was the OC with Matt Ryan at BC.
Foerster makes me wonder if they might employ more zone blocking particularly since it appears they might lose Iupati. I think Hyde would be great in a ZBS, but we'll see.
Sparano is a nice pickup as a TE coach.
Don't know a ton about those WR coaches other than Curry as a player. Interesting to me though that it appears one will couch outside WRs and the other Inside WRs...not even sure what that means. Focus on slot guys? Who knows.
Rathman is IMO the best RB coach in the NFL so grat that he's staying.
On ST, I won't even pretend to know about this guy but its a bummer that Seely is gone. IMO he was one of the best.
All-in-all...I like a lot of those guys, particularly on D, but big ?s on offense and at HC.
