The NFL is in the midst of a great solution void when it comes to the head coaching position, writes ConorOrr
on Sunday, much to the surprise of the lay NFL world who last checked in with the Patriots’ offensive coordinator when he backed out of the Colts’ job in 2019, leaving a mostly assembled staff in the lurch while he scampered back to the league’s ready-made coaching factory.
We’re not here to criticize. McDaniels’s reasoning for not taking the job has since filtered out through various surrogates. Maybe he and current Colts general manager Chris Ballard weren’t in as much a lockstep as they originally thought. Maybe there were granular philosophical differences that ended up being a deal breaker. Even if it had nothing to do with operations squabbling, we are all humans working for a living.
But it is interesting, especially in the current state of coaching affairs. McDaniels left the Colts, ultimately, because he knew he could. He knew that his time would come again because of the league’s unending desperation to replicate New England’s two-decade stretch of success.
The Lions kicked out a coach who actually took their team to the playoffs to try this. The Texans are alienating the entirety of their fan base and possibly hiring a head coach with. The Browns tried it twice in a row, and failed. Outside of Bill O’Brien in Houston, every single attempt at this has been an unmitigated disaster. O’Brien is actually the gold standard of Patriots assistants, with Brian Flores a distant second.
It begs the question: Are we really this unoriginal? This is a league full of imaginative coaching. This is a sport so astoundingly peppered with talent and creativity. Sit in the bleachers of a high school football game one night and you might see something that, a few iterations later, becomes a trick play stolen by every head coach in the NFL. We are in the midst of a great solution void when it comes to the head coaching position. We are regularly acting out the definition of insanity.
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