It was indeed phenomenal and I'm amazed at the ridiculous lack of appreciation. A true freshman goes 14-1 as a starting QB, makes first team All-Sec, runs what should have been the winning touchdown, in the clutch, in the national championship game, and get's nothing but, "He has to improve or look out"."Pretty good"? LOL! IMO it was outstanding.
Any NFL coach is either incredibly helped or hampered by talent he had no hand in drafting. So a lot of it's really out his hands, depending on how good or not good the players are that he has to work with. I don't think Coach would have hired him unless Belichik recommended him. Not sure if he did or not but would imagine so.He was a bust as an OC in the NFL but he has good "lineage" as far as it goes.
Think coach wants to go away from the hurry up/no huddle? I kinda get that feeling but have no idea.He got opportunities as an OC at 3 different places but none of them were long stints. You are right, circumstances dictate a ton in the NFL...none of his OC jobs were desirable openings.
Saban really wanted him badly. That is the primary consideration. The question was whether he would come. Belichick really likes him and he was the heir apparent to Josh McDaniels.So what do y'all think of the hire?
good insightful post...thanksSaban really wanted him badly. That is the primary consideration. The question was whether he would come. Belichick really likes him and he was the heir apparent to Josh McDaniels.
It likely marks at least a lean back to Bama's recent past.
His OC past is dismal record wise. But he was at Clev with HC Mangini, Brady Quinn, Derek Anderson, Colt McCoy, "old" Jake Delhomme and Seneca Wallace as his starting QBs. 10-22; Miami with interim HC Todd Bowles, Tony Sporano, then Matt Moore, Chad Henne as starting QBs. 6-10; KC with HC Romeo Crennel, then Matt Cassel and Brady Quinn as QBs. 2-14. That is a bad batch of HCs and a wretched group of QBs, most of whom were not even good NFL backups. Every stop was with teams in transition. At least he was wanted by 3 teams in 4 years .
You can rationalize anything, but we'll see what he can do with A+ skill talent and HC, A OL talent and undetermined OL coaching.
I'm frankly pleased for a few reasons: mostly Saban's enthusiastic approval, Belichicks assessment, a likely move towards Bama's pre Kiffin's offensive philosophy (though I liked Kiffin's results and think he got more out of his 3 years than most would have). Like a coach told Finebaum, "you could hand over this offense to a McDonalds checkout girl and do OK".
The only caveat is if the Bama braintrust thinks a college team can run NE's offense they are wrong. Brady's pre and post snap reading ability is NFL legendary. There are no college QBs like that. But that's so obvious that it does seem possible they could make that mistake. Saban knows.
TBDI think the fact that CBD was considered the successor to Josh McDaniels say an awful lot.
I agree. There may be less "hurry up" but there will probably be a lot of no huddle, creating substitution issues for the defense. Also, the NE Pats have shown the ability to go fast when needed, and seem to use it very effectively in spots. I know yardage wise we ran the ball very well last year. However, I can see us doubling-down on that while improving the PA game.My guess is we'll be as multiple as ever, keep the QB run stuff, but more judiciously use tempo. We'll likely do a bunch of no-huddle still but less quick snap.
Could probably expand that caveat to say that if we think we're getting any bit of what NE has going on, we're wrong. What goes on there, stays there; even very successful parts of that organization generally haven't been able to replicate NE's ways outside of the NE organization.The only caveat is if the Bama braintrust thinks a college team can run NE's offense they are wrong. Brady's pre and post snap reading ability is NFL legendary. There are no college QBs like that. But that's so obvious that it does not seem possible they could make that mistake. Saban knows.
Gray, one would think we'd gone 8-5 the last couple of years with the "glass half-empty" and "I'll believe it when I see it" mentality you (and some others) have on here.