Bob Pompeani

1-11.

He spent one year as the Niners coordinator, and they were 30th in points, and Alex Smith was horrifying.

So there have been, let's put it this way, there have been triumphs and missteps and nobody seems to want to mention the missteps in McCarthy's track record as a quarterback developer.

Well, the problem is I think we're still doing what we've been doing here for the last several years, and I think this hiring was an extension of that.

And I think the defensive coordinator hire here is apparently, if it's Patrick Graham, extremely uninspiring.

What's it say?

I mean, those are the worst of them.

Yeah, what happened when Mike McDonald, Ben Johnson, Matt LaFleur, Nick Sirianni, I could keep going here, Liam Cohen.

excited about well i mean yeah elevating somebody from an assistant to a head coach that's the same as our quarterback discussion in the draft yeah there's all kinds of busts of course there are if everybody made the right choice then everybody would be in the playoffs but only 14 teams get in of course there's busts as coaches but i just mentioned all the guys that have been successful being elevated from assistants mcdermott was in buffalo

Right?

Yes.

No, there are a lot.

Of course.

There's terrible coaching hires every single year.

Yeah, those are all internal promotions, though.

But here's the point, Bob.

Yes, internal.

Here's the point.

Do you want to take a risk on one of those guys, or are you going to go safe and true with Mike McCarthy?

I'm taking the risk, probably.