Lurie Had Reservations About Castillo Promotion Last Year
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Lurie Had Reservations About Castillo Promotion Last Year
Paul Domowitch
Eagles owner Jeff Lurie admitted Tuesday that he had serious reservations about Andy Reid’s decision to promote his longtime offensive line coach, Juan Castillo, to defensive coordinator last year.
``Yes, I did,’’ he said. ``But I let Andy make that call. I respected his decision. He felt it was the best thing to do at the time and I don’t interfere in that area.’’
And just to be clear, the decision Tuesday to fire Castillo six games into his second season as defensive coordinator also was Reid’s and Reid’s alone.
``I will never do that,’’ Lurie said when asked if he had anything to do with the decision to replace Castillo with secondary coach Todd Bowles. ``The way I operate, a coach is responsible for his staff. Succeed and fail based on who he chooses and his own performance. I don’t trigger that.’’
Lurie said he felt bad for Castillo.
``He preceded Andy,’’ he said. ``I’ve known his family since they were little kids. He’s done nothing but work really hard. Maybe he was put in an unfortunate position too early. That’s what I would say. That’s not Juan’s fault that he was put in that position too early.’’
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for Andy's football judgment.— misterhman- Juan's firing is a smoke screen for the horrible play calling by Marty Mornigwig. If Buddy Ryan was our defensive coordinator he would punch Morningwig in the face. — Realtor in Orlando
- Literally laughing out loud Realtor - Buddy Ryan DEFINITELY would have punched Marty M. in the face a long time ago. — mx55
- Who owns the team? If he has/had reservations he should have made a different decision.— rubicon24
- This is an average team. Reid's record in the last 24 games is 11-13.— rubicon24
- Lurie is a wimpy sissy...he owns the team,he needs to have the nuts to made the difficult decisions...no wonder Reid has made these awful moves with Vick and Castillo, because Reid just bullies his way past the sissy owner.— Bob112
- So Lurie needs to be a more involved owner? Like Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder? Yeah because the Cowboys and Skins have been awesome since those guys decided to make football decisions— jkard99
- Lurie is a GREAT owner...he should NOT interfere with his "football CEO" who is Andy. Lurie's only call is hire/fire Andy.— JBP
- was there anyone anywhere besides andy and juan that thought it was a good idea?
anyone*?
(*not including other nfl head coaches that want to beat the eagles of course.)— bloodymess - Wow even lurie admits Andy put him in a position to fail.— sore richard
- So when do we make moves to improve the offense.when will marty morningwheg be held accountable for his awful coaching.he ALWAYS gets a free pass.its always juan and Andy's faults while the worst coach out of all three flies under everyone's radar.— Sean s.
- Laurie seems to be Andy's (fill in the blank)— lonewolf 10
- Jeff Laurie is one of the best owners of a sports team in any sport. He has done a great job with the Eagles and for the city!— jmb53
- agree completely with Lurie not getting involved in the decision making; thats why you hire a football guy to run your team. seems odd he would comment like that though. it's like back seat driving, only after the accident has happened.— djack10
- Lurie is a sissy wimp....he needs to grow some nuts and make the difficult decisions, instead of hiding like a little girl.— Bob112
