So there actually is a bit of stuff out there about how he gave freedom to DCs and that he let the OC run all of the offensive meetings and create a lot of the game script.
A need to avoid turnovers has been drilled into Aaron Rodgers dating back to a quarterback competition in eighth grade. Now, a lack of turnover among the Packers’ coaching staff has helped build him into football’s most efficient quarterback
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Good info here. Appreciate the link.
I wonder how many head coach coaches, specifically ones that spent their entire careers before coming a head coach on one side of the ball, heavily delegate responsibilities on the other side of the ball that they're less familiar with. I don't know for sure, but it feels like a lot, right?
Obviously there are outliers to every situation, but generally speaking you see NFL teams try and hire experienced coordinators and position coaches if their head coach is inexperienced. But your super experienced head coaches are a lot more willing to develop younger guys on their staff.
One of the things guys like Belichick and Reid have done remarkably well that is IMO a super underrated thing is develop assistants from within their own staff. Those two guys lose assistants seemingly every single year to various promotions and they typically replace them with someone internally and don't miss a beat.
If Eric Bienemy gets a head coaching gig next month, Reid will have lost three offensive coordinators in five cycles. And Reid will simply promote Mike Kafka to OC and Kafka be a hot candidate for head coaching gigs by 2022.
The other thing I'd say is that article also is from 2015 and McCarthy ended up removing Clements from the play calling duties before that first year even ended.
Mike McCarthy is finally making the change that Packers fans have been asking for all season: he's taking over playcalling duties again.
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Sure they should... in any decision, an organizational leader should evaluate the best, worst, and most-likely scenarios. A guy like Ron Rivera will more than likely not be a "boom", but will also have a higher floor. Freddie was a major boom/bust coach, especially for year one, mainly because he never came anywhere close to this position before and the small sample size he was being evaluated over.
McCarthy is definitely a boom/bust. He's historically been a coach that is shut-off towards players and stubborn, while also finding ways to consistently win. I actually think the playcalling last year was not as huge of a problem for Green Bay as were the coach/QB relationship going stale and Ted Thompson's brutal previous few drafts.
Head coach Mike McCarthy has been criticized for running a stale offense, but that hasn’t been the case over the last two months as he’s incorporated concepts from, among other systems, Sean McVay’s Rams offense. It’s time for an examination of Aaron Rodgers’s role in Green Bay’s uneven performance.
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We may have to agree to disagree on this one I guess. I think anyone an NFL team decides to hire as head coach, they have to assume that coach is going to be at the very least competent at the job from day 1 or otherwise why are they willing to hire them in the first place?
There shouldn't be a concept of boom or bust when it comes to hiring a head coach. That doesn't make sense to me. John Dorsey needs to hire a coach that he 100% expects to be a great coach. If they end up not being great, so be it, then you make changes. I personally would never make a hire for a head coach based on who has a perceived "high floor".
I do share similar concerns about McCarthy. I wasn't interested in him
at all last year. I thought his offensive philosophy (slant/flat on repeat) was completely and utterly stale. But the fact that he's taken a deep dive into what went wrong and where the league has gone is really encouraging to me. If, and this is a very big if, but if he's telling the truth and the year off he took really helped him, I'd be quite interested.
Freddie is probably getting fired... I agree. Hell, I do not think he should retain his job. I also think the Dorsey should be fired if he legitimately did not think this was somewhat possible. A HC hired four years before he was ready to be a HC being combined with the largest coaching staff in the NFL, a second year QB, no offensive line, and poor depth were all reasons to expect volatility this season. To that end, I also don't see it as unfathomable, or even unlikely, that Freddie shows significant improvements during his next season as a HC.
I do think it's possible and even likely that Kitchens would show SOME improvement next year (it would hard to be more incompetent than he's been frankly), but the Browns are not really in a position to be able to wait on him to improve on the job. They are inching closer every year to being in salary cap hell as guys like Garrett, Mayfield and Ward get closer and closer to their second contracts. The time is now basically.
How are you certain? Isn't that something nobody - not even McCarthy - know right now?
Agreed on Haslett... though, IIRC, he at least is a versatile playcaller who is not bound by a specific scheme or stye, ala Gregg and Wilks.
I'm not certain. It's impossible to be sure. But I am pretty confident based on McCarthy literally on record saying “I’ll never do that again."
If Haslett wants to come on board as LB coach or something similar, so be it. But Jim hasn't been a defensive coordinator in the NFL since 2014 and so much has changed in the last 6 years that I would be extremely weary of bringing him in for that role even if he's been studying things relentlessly for the last year.
