Quote:Agree. You want to be the best then you pay the best when it comes to OCs and DCs.


The best coaches surround themselves with good coordinators in the area they are weak at. A good offensive HC will find a top tier DC and a good defensive coach like Bradley needs a top tier OC.


JDR was a shining example of that. Coached the D just fine but the offense floundered and he didnt find a quality OC once Smith left for atlanta.

Smith was a DC. 

 

Agree that Del Rio never hired a truly strong OC.  He actually hired a coordinator in Bill Musgrave who probably matched what he wanted from his offense as Musgrave was a Bill Walsh disciple in the West Coast Offense mold.  Then we drafted a guy who was a pure drop back pocket passer in Leftwich.  That was doomed to fail from the start. 

 

Carl Smith was better suited to being a position coach, which is where he is today in Seattle.  Dirk Koetter brought a lot of hope when he was hired. The problem with Koetter's offense was we didn't have the tools to run it.in the fashion he would have preferred.  The guy ran wide open offensive schemes in college at two different programs, but when he got to the NFL, we had a QB who struggled to read defenses and to pass with accuracy, and we had one of the top running back tandems in the game.  The Jaguars were exactly what Del Rio said they wouldn't be when he was hired, a running "3 yards and a cloud of dust" offense.  Koetter took the blame for the lackluster/mediocre offense, but that's the way the team was built during his tenure.

 

Hopefully Gus recognizes the need to go strong on this hire or his tenure is going to be a short one.

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