Quote:Not confused at all.  The GM should have a vision of what type of team he would like to build and what type of styles on offense and defense he would like to run.  If he didnt like it Gus would of been gone.   So im sure they they were both on the same page.  Just not a good one.  Its really not that hard.  You can try to spin it any way you like to make it look like Dave is 0% at fault with what we run. 

 

I'm not trying to spin anything. 

 

I blame Dave for hiring Gus. It's a major strike against him.  

And when he hired him he had to press him to disclose his offensive philosophy even though he's a defensively minded coach. Did Gus come out at that moment and say "I don't like to carry a FB on the roster?"  Probably not.  But I'm sure the run game philosophy was discussed at length.  A FB is considered "optional" by many good coaches and Caldwell is certainly aware. Eleven teams don't carry a FB last time I checked. Some of them are pretty good offenses. 

 

So whatever Gus said in those interviews, Dave bought it. But Gus hired the guy ultimately made the decision to pass on a FB. Not Dave. 

 

If you want to backpedal and change  your gripe from "no fullback =career killer" to "Dave should have hired a HC with a better offensive philosophy"  that would make a hell of a lot more sense. 

 

But this argument that Dave is at fault for not running with a FB is a very strained argument because it's not his direct decision (and it's also not even considered necessary by a lot of successful running teams.) 

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