I'm not anti-Garrett from a personal sense. But his weaknesses are well known and it's tough to make it to the big dance in today's nfl when you struggle with the strategic aspect of coaching. Nothing wrong with discussing that here. A great coach would recognize that and leverage the coaches around them.
I like to boast I'm neither pro nor anti Garrett.
Every coach except for maybe one has chronic weaknesses of some kind.
That's all valid to talk about.
Every coach also has some chronic strengths.
It appears to be a revelation to some, but that's also valid to talk about.
I do not consider any coach who has yet to even appear in an NFC championship game in 9 years to be "great." (Who does?)
I also recognize that it's not as-if great coaches grow on trees, so to speak. Just because you replace a guy who hasn't yet distinguished himself doesn't mean the replacement is going to be any better.
And sometimes coaches do progress... like sometimes, they may finish first in their 4-team division only once in 5 years, but then, may finish first three times in the most recent five years... that's irrefutably normally called progress.
Mathematical probability says a coach ought to be able to win his division once every four years... this one has slightly exceeded that average.
Mathematical probability says a coach ought to be able to make the playoffs about once every three years... this one is right at that average.
Mathematical probability says a coach ought to be able to get to the conference championship game about once every ten years... this one has one more chance to achieve that before he's lagging behind.
I am one of those who try to call balls and strikes, not just balls as some others do.
If Garrett fails to reach the championship game this season, it's probably just not going to happen. I think that's the prevailing conventional wisdom, and I agree with that.
Circling back to the premise of the OP, if you're not foolish enough to hand over to a 30 year-old assistant responsibilities for one of your most pivotal job expectations and most consequential to your keeping your job or losing it and, at that, responsibilities that kid has never had before.... then why would one think a Princeton University graduate would be that foolish?
I'm not suggesting Moore won't have input. He will have input. Hopefully good input. I think he just might.
But this will be a Garrett offense in a way we haven't seen since he was calling plays when he first got here. Moore may even call plays, but he will call plays much like a patrol leader in a Boy Scout troop has been well-schooled in what the Scoutmaster wants done, if that analogy works for anyone. Moore's input, then, will be one part of a recipe that will be Garrett's creation. Garrett will own whatever it is that happens, success or failure. And that's as it should be.
