I thought the defense played their asses off all year (effort-wise) which is a big mark in his favor in my opinion. I assume he played a large part in having them busting ass even when the season was lost, which was impressive to see.
Historically, an utter and complete lack of knowledge beyond surface-level reductionist nonsense hasn't been an impediment for people advocating absolutist positions in this forum. Dunno why this would be any different.
It tends to be a sign of dysfunction. Let’s hope that’s not the case here. I presume there’s a plan and whoever they get will be worth it and willing to put up with not having hired the coach. Tough to find that combination usually.
I disagree. Most NFL franchises don’t have a strict owner -> GM -> coach chain of command, the way MLB and NBA franchises typically do. The coach may nominally report to the GM, but in practice they both are answerable directly to ownership. As a corollary, GMs don’t generally hire coaches; they have input, but it’s an ownership decision.
Whether or not it should have happened first, the GM in this case is the more critical hire. It doesn't seem possible to have less offensive talent than there is on the team currently.
I start here, but in this case am "optimistic" because Mayo comes from the part of the team that has been very good, seems to have been a big part of it, is reportedly quite intelligent but also seems a good communicator. I'll be disappointed if they don't also bring in fresh blood as OC (no Josh or B O'B) and GM. But I think if those 2 are filled from the outside, then there''s both the needed shake-up of the culture along with continuity of what has been working best, but with new/younger/fresher/more communicative blood.
It all depends on the QB they draft. If the next QB busts, Mayo will be on the hot seat in a few years.
This is a good point. If you are looking for a GM to be at the top of the football operation, then sticking him with a coach before he arrives may make the job less attractive. If you aren't, and either the coach is the #2 or there will be some sort of power sharing, then the GMs who want to run the show (and have proven they can) won't be interested in the job, but there are plenty of candidates who would still be interested. Hiring Mayo probably meams they aren't looking for one guy at the top of the hierarchy just yet.
Some teams do this, but I don't think it's the best setup. By and large, in the best organizations, you know who wears the pants in that household. It could be the head coach (Belichick, Reid, Shanahan), it could be the GM (Ozzie, Howie, Colbert), but there's a clear power structure and ownership doesn't have to butt their heads in very often, if at all.
There are two successful head coaches in the Division who would probably say their roles as assistants or coordinators did prepare them. One of them is only slightly older than Mayo.
I get it, it is just a general uneasiness about a first time coach who is pretty young and hasn’t been doing it very long all of a sudden in charge of the whole program.
Totally get this, as I’m feeling the same thing. Even good coaches fall on their face in the head job, and even good coaches do well in the head job under the circumstances and still get fired because owners are impatient and shit outside the coach’s control happens (injuries, bad personnel moves). The error bars are big on any of these guys, including, yes, even the seemingly assumed-to-be-home run hire Ben Johnson.
McDaniel is the 6th straight guy the Dolphins have tried who came from a coordinator/position coach background. The other 5 (Cam Cameron, Tony Sparano, Joe Philbin, Adam Gase and Brian Flores) were all spectacular failures.
Hiring a GM now won't change the fact that current Patriots scouts have been working on these players for a year or more. A new GM wouldn't bring in new scouts, so hopefully the current guys are good at their job and Groh/Mayo/etc. listen to them. A new GM brought in 3 months before a draft likely won't change much.
Somebody has to make the decision though. And maybe it's fine if they come to a consensus on each pick, but somebody has to have the final decision if the team is not fully aligned on each pick. I'm curious who will have the final say if they go into the draft without a named GM.
Flores was badly undermined by both his GM and owner the instant he arrived in Miami.
"Mayo is likely to fail because so many have and most coaches do" is unassailably logical.
I don't disagree with you, but one of the articles I read today had a quote from an ally of BB's that said something like, "They'll have to hire 5 guys to do all the stuff Bill did."
