(09-21-2019, 01:57 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(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?

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/p...nsGa00.htm

If Minshew keeps at his current statistical pace, he will finish the year with approximately a 25-5 TD-INT ratio and 3400 yards passing with a 73.9 completion percentage.

I would be hard pressed to see this team winning only 6 games if he sustains his current pace.

I would be hard pressed to see him sustaining his current pace. Not a knock against Minshew, but I mustache you a question: how many sixth-round QBs can you think of that have ended their rookie season by starting 15 games, completing 70% of their passes and keeping their INTs in the single digits? I want it to happen, but especially in an offense as aggressive as Flip's, there will come a point at which defenses either figure out how to slow Minshew down or figure out how to slow the offense down.

But yeah, maybe 6-10 is a bit low if Minshew holds up and we find a running back.

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