More importantly, owners. Let’s be honest. Amy is a nice lady running her dads football team, having a good time but knows nothing about running a football team.
I think sometimes this is good.
One of the reasons Kraft has had so much success is that he allowed the people he hired to do their job.
One of the major issues people see with Dallas and Washington is that Jones and Snyder overstep their ownership into the GM/coaching business.
the overall issue is hiring the right people to allow to do their job.
Exactly why I think Ran needs to execute the full authority of his position. Eventually this "we are equals" BS runs out of steam. Letting bad decisions happen in the name of this idea will destroy the team, the HC, and himself.
Unfortunately for him, he won't get to call games against our pathetic pass D.
If we suck next year all of these hires and promotions he handed out to his boys gonna burn ol Vrabs. Is his ego so in huge he cant hire individuals who might bring in a different opinion? Sounds beta as hell to me. Or is he trying to become his daddy Bill Bilichick? Maybe both? All I know is he got his power over the team now he's got a big target on his back, expectations gonna be high next year.
Does anyone remember who were front runners for the HC job when Vrabel got it? Can't remember. Whoever it was, I wish we would've got him. Can't take this buddy system nonsense.
Nah, now it's going to be "it takes a year or two for things to start falling in place with new coordinators". He afforded himself a few years to see if this was right or wrong hire, unfortunately.
I don’t think he did.
If he were a new HC hire, I think that excuse is possible but he hired from within and used the dreaded “familiarity” as part of the justification.
If he doesn’t have success, and probably quickly, fans will turn on him (if they haven’t already) and his leash is short.
My best guess is that the passing game coordinator is the person responsible for designing the scheme of the play, route concepts, motions, etc, and then during the season watching film on the opponent and recommending the best plays/schemes to use to attack the defense.
If that is true, then Kelly brings some positives and negatives from what I saw in 2022.
Positives:
- I immediately noticed that our route design was significantly better than 2021. We didn't have 3 receivers running into the same areas
- There were some decent route concepts at times, and Tannehill wasn't constantly throwing picks due to defenders being able to easily jump routes.
- And of course, the scripted plays looked pretty darn good. If he truly was responsible for drawing those plays up, then he's not completely devoid of talent at designing plays.
- We were near the bottom of the league in pre-snap motion. Pre-snap motion, particularly jet motions where receivers are coming at full speed across the formation, have been one of the most in vogue concepts of the past 5 years that the rest of the league has been using to great success. It stresses defenders, particularly linebackers, because they can easily get caught looking at the guy flashing past them, and miss the TE that's going up the seem. Or they don't go with the jet guy, and he gets the ball and out flanks them. Not using this concept in today's NFL is just completely insane. If he's designing the plays, he's responsible for putting in the motions too.
- Our receivers had absolutely no separation most of the year. While you can certainly blame lack of talent, the scheme has to carry some blame. There are lots of ways to create space and get guys open underneath. There are "catch and carry" plays which are extremely effective on 1st and 2nd downs. Play action is of course great. And then there are WR screens, which brings me to the next bad mark.
- The screen game was abysmal. The screen game is very important in todays game and it's all about timing and execution. The 2022 team looked like a high school scout team trying to run someone else's play book when we tried to run screens. They had no timing or coordination. The designs themselves looked broken. Nothing about them worked except for occasionally when Henry would get one in space and be able to start trucking down the field. Now is that all on the play designer? Probably not, but he sure didn't create any screens that made the offense look good or were easy to execute.
Jon Gruden, matt Patricia, pat shurmur, frank Reich, Steve Wilks and Josh McDaniels were some that got hired/intereste
I know LaFleur was a candidate. I think they only interviewed like 3 or 4 candidates. J-Rob knew he wanted Vrabes the whole time.
They interviewed 3. Vrabel, LaFleur & Steve Wilks
Texans fans have no right to laugh at anything.
We will still be a run first team, but more balanced. Our 1st down play calling will be much less predictable. Kelly will also take his shots down field. This isn’t a bad hire. The OL hire is a head scratcher.
Ahhh that's right. Totally forgot about that.
Does Luke Steckel have a father named Les?
Les Steckel was Fisher's second OC and he was too conservative even for Fisher. If you can believe that. Dinger replaced him.
Yes, Luke is Les' son. Went to high school in Brentwood while dad was coaching/coordinating.
I mean COLGATE and Williams, not the F1 team but the private elementary school from like 1820 the elphs ... Go Big Es
fun fact - Luke Steckel escorted me & my wife to our seats at a Titans dinner back when the Titans pretended to care about fans
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