I posted this on another board. It's longwinded, but it's my honest view of this coaching staff.

Every season of football every game ever played is algorithm solving for the best way to get the most wins. Look at how many of those "solved" seasons included no special teams coach and two offensive line coaches. Additionally, in the last 40 years or so, while there have been coaches who won calling their own plays, they were almost always elite offensive minds, at least in the period in which they were winning those championships. Or they lucked into a generational talent (who may or may not like stealing crab legs).

So we have over a century of running this same problem every fall and solving for best practices, but our staff is going to reinvent the wheel because it knows better than history? I'd almost give it a pass - sometimes being eccentric leads to a new evolution of the game - but when you are having all the exact problems decade after decade of running this program predicts you should expect, you've more than likely found dead end rather than a new solution.

Which is all to say, I don't think a team coached with this current philosophy, even with all the right pieces, will ever see a 10 win regular season, much less any championships. These heterodox approaches aren't exactly unknown. The vast majority of elite coaching staffs don't do them because they don't work.

This post was edited on 9/30/23 at 12:22 pm