I for one haven't advocated giving Jim Belichick-level control. But I would give him Reid or Carroll-level control where he gets to pick the GM.
I can't speak for others but for me there are Devin Smith, Lorenzo Mauldin, Bryce Petty, Jarvis Harrison, Darron Lee, Juston Burris, ArDarius Stewart, Chad Hansen, and others. Plus Darrelle Revis, Trumaine Johnson, and other free agent busts.
He worked with Peyton Manning and Matthew Stafford. Won a Super Bowl with Joe Flacco. Okay, those are good reasons. I was asking and got some answers. Caldwell was (36–28) with the Lions too, which sounds a lot better than Todd Bowles' (24-40) Jets record.
I'll consider all of those things, and of course Christopher Johnson has far more information, that he alone is privy to, to evaluate his general manager on, but I'll still reach the same conclusion, Maccagnan's performance over the past four years doesn't merit his retention. If Bowles was held accountable, then so should he be. Of course he'll have explanations and rationales for why certain decisions didn't work out. But when you look at the body of his work, all of his draft picks, his trades, his free agent signings, I don't believe that you see enough positives to believe that he is good enough at his job to turn this franchise around. When he was hired, his biggest selling point was that he had a background in scouting, in personnel evaluation. Is there any area where his performance has been more disastrous?
It's actually very common to have the VP of player personnel involved in the interview process . The 2 biggest things that are discussed during the interview process and choice of staff and how the candidate envision using the current personnel and what he feels he would need as far as additional players to succeed. Chris specifically stated that an offensive minded candidate was his preference , but wasn't a mandate.
I know, newbies suck! Sean McVay, Matt Nagy, Frank Reich, Anthony Lynn and Doug Pedersen are so shit! Almost half the playoff coaches this year are first year coaches lol
Besides Belichick, what coach has been successful having total control? Even Belichick s control is limited, he wants to keep Jimmy G but was over ruled, wanted to trade Gronk and was over ruled. Reid turned down full control saying it is too much for one person to coach, oversee a staff and handle scouting and drafting. Recent failures include Gase, Lovie Smith, Chip Kelly, Josh McDaniels. It was too much for Mike Holmgren and Pete Carroll, and it’s likely going to be too much for the next guy given all of the power by some desperate football organization.
My only concern is his age. He did take the colts to 14-0 his first year and would have gone 16-0 if not mandated to sit his starters the last 2 games and they did make the super Bowl. I think he was the Ravens OC when they beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl too.
