GM Joe Schoen, Coach Brian Daboll end-of-season press conference

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Brian Daboll (1:26)

So just a couple of things here, and then we'll open up to questions. Made two staff changes this morning.

Moved on from Bobby Johnson and from Thomas McGahey. I want to thank those guys for what they've done the last two years. This is the hard part of the job. Have a lot of respect for them. Just felt we're going to move in a different direction, not going to add anything to it. This is a private conversation. But I do respect both of those guys and what they've done the last two years, their commitment to the team, their work ethic, but wanted to make a change. So again, those are private conversations. I'm not going to elaborate on any of it.

Yeah, we've been... Well, my expectation is Wink and Kafka will both be back. So those are two of the changes we made this morning. But there's still conversations that are going to be had. We've only been here for a short time, but those were two of the guys in the morning that I spoke with. So other than that, again, appreciate the way the guys finished and competed yesterday. And we had an off-season meeting leading into the off-season just a little while ago with the staff and the players and the coaches and all the administrators. So it was a good year-end meeting. They're meeting now with their offensive defense, respectively, position coaches. Joe and I will have some meetings here with the rookie class, with the second-year class, with the UFA class after this conference here. So, other than that, open it up to any questions.

Well, again, that's a good question. It's something that we'll sit down and talk about as a staff.

And we'll, you know, we'll work through that.

SPEAKER_4 (3:23)

Brian, John, what went into your thinking with deciding that Mike and Wink will both return?

Brian Daboll (3:31)

Yeah, it's just, it's my expectation that they're gonna come back. I think they're good coaches. So, it'd be good to have some continuity and bring it back. You know, I know it's like, you know, Wink talks about this as a destination place and things like that. It's good, you know, I appreciate how hard they work, their commitment to the team.

So, that's my plan.

SPEAKER_5 (3:51)

Have you had conversations with them about that? Cause I know you said last week you hadn't had conversations with people.

Brian Daboll (3:56)

Yeah, no, not yet. I haven't talked to those guys. I've talked to the guys that I've let go, but that's my expectation and that's my plan.

Yeah, we'll talk, those are conversations we'll have here over the next few months of what direction we'll go and we'll make those decisions as we do a full evaluation.

SPEAKER_6 (4:18)

Joe, I'm sure you saw last week that Sequon said he hopes in his exit meeting, you guys shoot him straight. Is a second franchise tag a viable option for him or is it get a long-term deal done or free agency?

Joe Schoen (4:34)

Yeah, again, Sequon and I will talk about that.

That's a tool we have at our disposal.

It wasn't when we redid his deal before he came to camp, that wasn't taken out of that deal. It wasn't a, hey, we'll do this, but no franchise tag. So that's an option we have on the table. We'll have those conversations. I'm not saying we will or we won't. A lot of those conversations will be had over the next month or so.