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Who'd be our coach right now?
Mularkey was on real thin ice at the inception of the Marv Levy era, and the team was a bickering disaster. Assuming he would have kept most of the same personnel, employed the same highly effective offensive and defensive systems and playcalling, and continued his adroit handling of the QB contraversy, my guess is no, we would have been drafting really high this year and Marv would have been personally chiseling Mularkey's name off the door to the head coach's office at OBD.
Which leads me to my intellectual exercise for today:
Assuming Mularkey coached it out in Buffalo in 2006, and then got canned, who would you all like to have seen us bring in as the new coach for this coming year? For sake of argument, lets assume Jauron took last year off and is available along with Cameron, Petrino, Rivera, Tomlin, and each of the other guys that were available in January, 2007.
I'm going to have to say I'd stick with Jauron. Partly, because I think it was a very weak talent market for HCs this year, and partly because
1. I think he deserves major credit for helping to turn the bickering mess Mularkey left into a group of guys that seem to really like the organization and want to play for it.
2. I like that he coached enough discipline that we set what I think was a franchise low for penalties
3. I like that we were competitive in almost every game we played, which says a lot about his game planning and his motivational ability.
While I had some problems with his playcalling at times, if I had to pick a new coach in January, there's not another guy available that I'm confident would do a better all around job than Jauron.
Fire away.
Mularkey was on real thin ice at the inception of the Marv Levy era, and the team was a bickering disaster. Assuming he would have kept most of the same personnel, employed the same highly effective offensive and defensive systems and playcalling, and continued his adroit handling of the QB contraversy, my guess is no, we would have been drafting really high this year and Marv would have been personally chiseling Mularkey's name off the door to the head coach's office at OBD.
Which leads me to my intellectual exercise for today:
Assuming Mularkey coached it out in Buffalo in 2006, and then got canned, who would you all like to have seen us bring in as the new coach for this coming year? For sake of argument, lets assume Jauron took last year off and is available along with Cameron, Petrino, Rivera, Tomlin, and each of the other guys that were available in January, 2007.
I'm going to have to say I'd stick with Jauron. Partly, because I think it was a very weak talent market for HCs this year, and partly because
1. I think he deserves major credit for helping to turn the bickering mess Mularkey left into a group of guys that seem to really like the organization and want to play for it.
2. I like that he coached enough discipline that we set what I think was a franchise low for penalties
3. I like that we were competitive in almost every game we played, which says a lot about his game planning and his motivational ability.
While I had some problems with his playcalling at times, if I had to pick a new coach in January, there's not another guy available that I'm confident would do a better all around job than Jauron.
Fire away.
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