The team always sets the parameters and determines the general style of play they want. Coordinators are not completely autonomous with nobody to answer to or coordinate with on any team.
True. But you leave out that some OCs have more control than others. (And you know that's true, so why not acknowledge that?)
While it's true that Linehan was
hired because he and Garrett shared offensive philosophy, the point remains that Linehan was given practically complete control over the offense. I'm sure he and Garrett compared notes, I'm sure Garrett still had input, just as you suggest. I'm also confident that Garrett
never spoke about the need for Linehan to
collaborate with his offensive coaches. It was ubiquitously understood in these parts that Linehan was large and in charge in the same way that Marinelli was.
That's changed. That's different now.
1) Kellen Moore probably has already gotten to put on the table for Garrett's review the first draft of the playbook, based on what Garrett has told him is important to keep in it and probably should be discarded... and which, then probably mostly met with Garrett's approval.
That, as opposed to Linehan, who probably handed to Garrett a playbook that mostly got rubber-stamped.
2) And during the season, Moore will probably incrementally move from having a lot of Nussmeier/Garrett interaction in formulating each week's game plan, to perhaps having gained so much confidence from his supervisor that he mostly formulates it all on his own.
Linehan, it was widely understood, always had charge to formulate game plans on his own... again, b/c he long ago formed a bond/trust with Garrett, so that's just reasonable.
3) For now, there is no indication that Garrett is going to go back to calling plays like opposing HCs in LA and NO do, and rather, every indication that Moore will be the in-game play caller. But the degree of helicopter parenting that Moore is likely to experience pre-game, in-game, and post-game is almost certainly going to be significant, especially at the beginning of the season. Like the game planning, that should reduce incrementally, but pragmatically we can be sure that that will be dictated by the W/L record.
Then, here's what I submit
hasn't changed.
1) Moore, like Linehan, clearly gets to set the agenda for O coaches meetings. We know this much.
2) In training camp, Moore probably will interact with the offensive coaches much like Linehan did... observing what seems to work, what doesn't seem to work, which players seem to be best deployed for which plays, etc.
3) He probably will have essentially the same voice that Linehan did when it comes to making offensive cuts, though, he might be ever-so-slightly less influential than Linehan would have been if there is a debate about a certain player with one of the position coaches.
Where am I wrong, and why?
