Broaddus saying unheard name means Jason Witten or college coach

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The difference is Campbell had a decade of NFL coaching experience before getting the HC gig with Detroit. Witten has zero. Yes a lot of the grunt work starts with coordinators, but the main job of your HC is to coach the coaches. How do you do that with zero experience?
Coordinators don’t need coaching. Some coordinators even have head coaching experience.

I’ll take game experience and gut feeling.
 

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Jason Witten is as ready to be an NFL head coach as he was to be a commentator on MNF.
Just the fact that Jason Witten’s name is even being mentioned tells us everything we need to know about what a train wreck this organization is. Witten was a great Cowboy but he is completely unqualified to be an NFL head coach at this point of his life.
 

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Just the fact that Jason Witten’s name is even being mentioned tells us everything we need to know about what a train wreck this organization is. Witten was a great Cowboy but he is completely unqualified to be an NFL head coach at this point of his life.
exactly. He wants to be an NFL head coach, go coach TE's for 6 yrs in Carolina or Arizona. Earn your place.
 

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Witten would be my first choice. What is the difference between Dan Campbell and Witten as far as coaching?

Head coaches delegate the play calling and details to the coordinators. Head coaches are the big picture strategists and player motivators.
I looked up Dan Campbell's resume on Wikipedia.

He spent 10 years as a TE position coach, five in Miami and five in New Orleans. He was Sean Payton's assistant head coach for that time in New Orleans. And he was actually Miami's interim head coach for 12 games after the Dolphins fired Joe Philbin.

So Campbell didn't have any playcalling experience when got the Lions job, but he had spent a lot of time handling head coaching type responsibilities.

He had some pretty unconventional experience for a head coach hire, but it's still a lot more experience than Jason Witten has.
 

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The last ex player with little to no coaching experience to be handed the HC job was Garret, and even he had more experience at the time than Witten does. Which points out the real problem - if Jerry decides to take a flyer on Witten we will be stuck with him for a minimum of 8-10 years whether he is good or awful. Because Jerry will never admit he made a mistake doing that (which is why we had Garret for so long).

TE coach? Sure, get him some experience. HC? Hard pass.
 
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