(12-19-2021, 07:03 PM)newporttom Wrote: Someone earlier said Khan's getting wiser on this stuff. I couldn't disagree more.  Both of the last debacles have because Khan has bought into a "story".  Story 1 - Bring Tom Coughlin "back home" and give him ultimate authority.  Hire a coach willing to answer to Coughlin (Marrone). Story 2 - Bring one of the best College Coaches of all time "back home" to Florida and hand him ultimate athority.

In both cases Khan was so enamored by the story, that he disregarded all the Red Flags. 

This years "story" is "bring Byron Leftwich home".  Here's the red flags on him:  Has he been in demand?  No. He's only been hired by one guy in his entire coaching career.  Bruce Arians.  In Arizona, in 2018 he was Qb coach and then OC and was given their Top 10 1st rounder Josh Rosen to develop. At the end of 1 year, the new regime had enough of Rosen and Leftwich and one was released and the other fired.

Arians hires him again at Tampa for 2019. Again he is OC and this time given a #1 overall pick to work with with (Winston), Again after one season with Leftwich, the Bucs let Winston go.  Turnovers led Winston to be ranked #27 among QBs.

But then the best QB of all time shows up in 2020 and they win the SuperBowl.  Teams were so impressed by Leftwich that not one single team requested to interview him.  But now that there's; an opening in Jax, the media want to slot him there  Not for me.

Pederson makes the most sense. But man o man the amount of research I would be doing to find out what went wrong in Philly..........

If Pearson passes the test, I get him Dobbs the Asst GM from Indy.

If you don't feel good about Peterson, I like the idea of Nate Hackett.  Has been hired by 3 different coaches (Gruden Marrone, and LeFluer).  Since you have a first time coach hire Jim Caldwell in a Coughlin-like capacity but without the power.  Give your first year coach a wise mentor to lean on. Dobbs as GM for him also.