Head Coaching Candidates for 2025
For all the ranting and raving some of you are doing, ML is not going anywhere and he probably shouldn't yet. For those of you that keep griping about the cap, they way we handle the cap has never stopped us from signing anyone we really wanted period. If you are pointing to the cap as the reason why we don't have quality depth across the board, no team will pay starter $ to backups because they think they will be decimated by injuries.
Our problem is we have mishandled the draft in not only our selections but also the trading up we've done. And drafting well is where you find quality depth and for cheap.
You can blame ML for part of that but not too much because ML is not much of a football guy. While ML has the final say on the draft I'd bet $ he would always defer to SP on picks and trades so you can blame SP really for Davenport and the lack of a 1st in 19 and for the success and more so failure for 18-21
ML, DA and JI get the credit/blame for 22-24 and I think more of it falls on DA and JI because just like I said ML is not much of a football guy and he knows it so I don't think ML is saying " let's not take this QB because his footwork is bad or this LB because his 40 time or 3 cone drill is not where it needs to be, he's going to defer to the coaches and the scouting dept.
What our next HC needs to be is a great talent evaluator. a bright offensive mind and a good to great motivator with an attention to detail and a stickler for accountability because that's what a non football GM needs to be successful and to not put ML in the position to control the draft