Schottenheimer wasn't a good OC, but he doesn't seem to have a bad football mind. Some guys are just not great with X's and O's. I think he has decent potential as a head coach. With that said, I wouldn't want that experiment haha.
Schotty will get a job somehow. Coaches just continue to get recycled in the NFL no matter how good or bad they are. What I'm most curious about is if he'll land an OC or quarterback coaching job. If he gets an OC job then his new employer is basically stating that the Jets stagnant O in Schotty's last years was on Sanchez or Rex.
Or they think their personnel matches up well with his offense. As much as everyone here hates him a lot of football people think his system is good.
I think he was a terrible offensive coordinator. The Jets rarely got in a groove on offense after 2006 and his schemes never adjusted to the talent level at all except for rare periods when he had things forced on him because other things had gotten out of hand. The WR's running into each other this year because they were mostly new to the team and had not had an off-season to really adjust to the system was the last straw. Schotty wasn't even aware enough to realize that almost none of his players had a grasp of what he was trying to do and he kept switching it up from week to week even though the baseline system was a fail for this group of players. It was just horrible to watch.
2 years ago he had good runnning backs and got us a top 5 running game, Sanchez maybe a terrible Qb we don't know and next year if he sucks with a new Oc then it was Sanchez's fault not Shottys.
The answer to your question may be Jeff Fisher: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...-brian-schottenheimer-discuss-job-sources-say
So when Favre came in and Schotty changed the offense to accommodate Favre, that wasn't adjusting to the talent level? Becoming the team with the highest amount of rush attempts in 2009 and top 5 in 2010, so that Sanchez wouldn't have to throw, wasn't adjusting to Sanchez's talent level? Designing plays with short routes, calling for a lot of play-action, and color-coding the playbook wasn't adjusting to Sanchez's talent level?
Favre forced the change. He would not come to the Jets unless he had an assurance that he wasn't going to have to play in a new system. The Jets camo'd that by saying they were adjusting the offense because Favre had so little time to study it. Favre was the tail wagging the dog while he was here and for 10 games or so that worked. Again this stuff was forced on Schotty by Rex. Schotty would have happily watched Sanchez set a rookie record for Int's if it was in his system. Callahan did the scheming late on Ground and Pound because Schotty had been half-hearted with it in the middle of the season.
