His answer was something to the effect of "focus on game management and other head coaching purview duties".

He was better than Taylor, but Taylor was still calling the Pederson playbook and in three years time that playbook proved inadequate. I think the biggest strike against Pederson and his playbook was the inability to get the most out of Lawrence consistently. Some of that is OL and other personnel, some of it is Lawrence's mistakes, but it was Pederson and his staff's job to develop Lawrence within a system that would foster his development.

They had a few spurts of growth but ultimately failed.

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