acmillis wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:23 pm
MJW wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:54 pm
Thing is, someone has to want to take the job.
Put aside the personnel/cap issues, picture this: you're a rising offensive coach. Perhaps a QB coach with a good team. You get a call from the Bucs. They're offering you a promotion. Except, here's the rub: their coach is on a red-hot seat, and frankly, he's not very good. So you might get to be an OC, on a team with no QB and a bad line...for a year. Then it's almost certain you'll be fired when Toilet Bowles is. Your star dimmed. You'll probably end up begging for your old job back from before you left.
We're either going to have to go under the radar with someone rebuilding his stock, like Cooter, or hire young and hope we get a star a year or two before the league discovers him. This is not a good situation for an ascending assistant coach.
(One more reason we should have cleaned house, but I digress.)
“I’ll give you (at least) a million dollar/year salary increase and guarantee it for 3 (maybe 4-5) years”
OC candidate: “nah, I’m not interested.”
I don’t think that’s how that convo would go
I didn't think assistant coach salaries were guaranteed?
Okay, think of it like this. Let's take Brian Johnson, the Eagles QB Coach and a very popular name here. Let's say we call and offer him a job. He has two choices:
One, leave Philly for Tampa. He has no idea who his quarterback will be. He has no idea how much of a shadow Bruce Arians will cast over the offense. He has no idea how much longer Todd Bowles will be here. He has a pretty good idea what'll happen to him when Bowles gets fired, though.
Two, stay in Philly. Ascend to OC in the very near future when Shane Steichen gets a head coaching job. Continue working with Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, Devonta Smith, etc. Instantly move to the top of everyone's head coaching radar simply by not regressing. And in the meantime, work for a guy who is at zero risk of being fired any time in the near future.
You really think Johnson is picking Tampa? He'd have to be insane. He'd be in a position where he could be GREAT at his job and still get fired at the end of the year.
The time to hire Brian Johnson as our OC was when we hired Steichen to be our Head Coach. We went another direction. In the meantime, nobody whose star is on the rise is going to hitch their wagon to this situation. Bowles is on the hot seat. Licht is on the hot seat. We don't have a quarterback. Our line is in shambles. There will be no money for the new OC to go shopping. It's frankly a bad gig right now if a coach has options.
Best thing we can do? Make David Shaw the highest paid OC in the league. If he can help elevate this turd, he'll get a HC job next year. If the team falls apart, he has the chops to ascend from Bowles's ashes.
But, we won't do that. It'll be JB Cooter, or someone similar who needs to revive (or begin) their career. That's what happens when you don't clear out a rotten foundation.
