Quote:Like with Ken Whisenhunt in Tennessee,  Bill O' Brien will be calling plays in Houston in 2014.  As much as both offer as playcallers to their respective teams,  it's that much more difficult to manage a game and handle all of the other Head Coach responsibilities when you are also calling Offensive plays.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/201...ive-plays/

 

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the dual roles either. Didn't like it when Coughlin was doing it. As a matter of fact, I'll go so far to say that might have cost us that 1st Tennessee game in 1999. Coughlin went with emotion (as he was prone to do at times) and called that fateful play that led to the INT to seal the Titans win in the left corner of the EZ. I think an OC not going on emotion might have called a running play in that situation as they were right at the doorstep, and really only needed a FG to tie with time running out in the 4Q

 

I will guess that one or both of these HC's won't continue with this long term and a seperate OC will be brought in by 2015 or the following year for one or both. 

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