(09-21-2019, 01:47 AM)TJBender Wrote: So here's a valid question: let's assume that the team goes 6-10, but Minshew holds down the starting job and looks like the real deal by the end of the year. Not Tom Brady numbers, but the sort of numbers you'd expect from a rookie who's got a bright future. At 6-10, you have to fire Marrone, right? But assuming you didn't want to promote Flip to HC, would you tell coaching candidates that he stays on as OC no matter what because of how well he's developing Minshew?

I ask because typically rookie QBs don't end up starting on playoff teams, which means lots of them get a new HC in their second or third season. The world is littered with young QBs who were forced to learn multiple systems from multiple coordinators in a short amount of time and never recovered from it. If you do clean house and bring in a new coach, do you let him choose his coordinator or keep Flip around? Or do you go the Cleveland route and just promote Flip to HC for continuity's sake?