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You can't tell me that because you don't sit in practices, you don't watch his drills and even if you did, there is no objective way for you or anyone to assess the impact, positive or negative on a players game by a coach. Generally the people who try and do that are arrogant trolls who think that watching a few games of football a week means they know which positional coaches do their job well.


Maybe Brown and Smith would be superstars were it not for their coaches negative impact, maybe he has squeezed every last drop of talent out of them. You don't know, I don't know, heck even the players and coaches themselves probably couldn't assess it accurately.


Even if Sullivan is that much better than any coach Tandon Doss has ever had, is he suddenly, in his 3rd year in the league with just 20 catches to his name, going to become a good WR? Its possible, but history says its very, very unlikely, certainly not to the extent where he is going to displace the man who is unquestionably our best WR.

This area has a very strong local sports media, so I tend to hold what they say in pretty high regard. Also, it is clear that the difference between Cecil Shorts as a rookie and Cecil in his first year with Sullivan and beyond are night and day. I believe that Sullivan has a lot to do with that and that belief is supported by how highly Sullivan is regarded around the organization and the league. It is also clear that Torrey Smith, Tandon Doss, Marcus Smith and others have not or did not improve under Hostler. That coupled with the fact that Hostler was allowed to walk and the fact that he wasn't highly regarded in the Raven organization, per Wilson, Lombardi and others, led to my opinion of him as a coach. I'm not in Mike Tomlin's practices and I wasn't in Mike Mularkey's practices, but I'll offer the opinion that Tomlin's is a better head coach than Mularkey. These are all opinions.


As far as Doss goes, I think he was a similar talent to Shorts coming out of college and I think he can be similar with the same opportunity and coaching in the league. Another opinion that could be right or wrong. Also, I never claimed he could replace Shorts, this team needs Shorts going forward.

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