After missing out on the Green Bay Packers’ head coaching job

JK Scott Jersey , it appears that Todd Monken is still interested in working for the organization. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator interviewed with the team over the weekend, but missed out on the position when the Packers picked Matt LaFleur instead. Now, there’s a chance that Green Bay could land both of the offensive minds who were reportedly at the top of their board following the first set of head coaching interviews. According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Monken will interview for the Packers’ offensive coordinator position in the coming days. However, he also reportedly has a few other interviews lined up with other teams for the same job, as the Lions and Browns are both on his itinerary.Monken’s experience and success leading an offense would be an excellent addition to the LaFleur’s staff. He called plays for 15 of the the Buccaneers’ 16 games in 2018, leading them to a ninth-place finish in passing DVOA and a third-place rank in total yards. However Kevin King Jersey , he did not call plays during his first two years in Tampa, as head coach Dirk Koetter held those duties; therefore, he would not necessarily be taking a significant step back by taking a non-playcalling coordinator position under LaFleur in Green Bay. In addition, his experience as a college head coach (at Southern Mississippi) could keep him in serious consideration for head coaching jobs in future years.APC’s Paul Noonan expanded on Monken’s offensive philosophy recently. It seems logical that his approach and focus on explosive plays would mesh well with LaFleur, who also values picking up chunks of yardage at once. In addition, Monken would likely bring some Air Coryell and Air Raid influences to the table, which could further diversify the Shanahan-style West Coast system that LaFleur will implement.If the Packers manage to hire Monken Josh Jones Jersey , fans — and quarterback Aaron Rodgers — should rejoice. His presence would give the team a coordinator with a proven track record of success in leading an NFL offense and would put Rodgers on a trajectory towards a bounce-back season in 2019. Separate and apart from the question of whether Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers should be talking publicly about his apparent disagreement with the lack of freedom he’ll have at the line of scrimmage in the team’s new offense is the question of whether he should have more freedom at the line of scrimmage.Although I disagree with the airing of dirty laundry (as the owner of a football news website, I approve of it), I agree with Rodgers’ belief that his 11 years of experience has helped him develop a football supercomputer in his brain that allows him to process pre-snap information and to make decisions about whether to change the play that was called and, more importantly, which play to call in its place.It’s nevertheless a delicate balance, as illustrated by the article published earlier this year by Tyler Dunne of BleacherReport.com.“When you put a quarterback in a position and you talk about how cerebral he is and you give him flexibility to make some changes, guess what?” former Packers running back Ryan Grant told Dunne. “You develop A.I. Montravius Adams Jersey , because it has the capacity to run without you. And then when it runs without you, it’s like, ‘Wait a minute!’ But in the same breath, if you’re not actually able to stay ahead of it, it’s going to outthink you and it’s going to say, ‘Me making the decision is the better decision.'”As a result, and as Grant said of Rodgers Jamaal Williams Jersey ,”You live and die by his greatness.”That greatness resulted in an increasing amount of freelancing from Rodgers in the latter years of the Mike McCarthy regime. Dunne cited one unnamed source in support of the position that Rodgers changed roughly a third of the plays that McCarthy called.“An alarming amount,” the source told Dunne. “That is embarrassing. And they don’t work!”Rodgers routinely audibled out of running plays, Dunne reported. Rodgers also, according to Dunne, would expect receivers to run not the route dictated by the play call but the route Rodgers wanted them to run.It came to a head against the Patriots, when receiver Equanimeous St. Brown was supposed to run a flag route, St. Brown ran a post route at Rodgers’ direction Kenny Clark Jersey , Rodgers while under pressure threw the ball to the flag, St. Brown wasn’t there because he’d run a post, and St. Brown admitted when grilled by coaches that he improvised in order to stay on the quarterback’s good side.The question is whether the new coach will stay on the quarterback’s good side. It could be that LaFleur is willing to risk some short-term Aaron alienation in order to avoid having A.R.’s A.I. take over, like it apparently did under McCarthy.