Who's the last big college coach to succeed in the NFL? Don't they pretty routinely get the crap kicked out of them? Unless they go from like, college to offensive quality control and get promoted upwards over 5-6 years
"Swagger" is obfuscation. It's only okay for players if they're basically like the guy who beat the holy hell out of the Irish MMA guy, and who taps world class wrestlers daily, at like 150 pounds. Guys like Ray Lewis, Richard Sherman in his prime. I can't remember the last good NFL coach that had "swagger".
If anything, quality coaches are like nerds, nerds you fear you didn't hear correctly in practice. Nerds that are always looking for an advantage to win, because they only talk about one subject, and you wouldn't sense it but take their knowledge over others at the top level as personal pride and the only validation they want for the work they've put in. Top coaches are like chess grandmasters. Grandmasters that'll bench your *** or trade you because they've put in too much time to deal with you if you can't handle their everyday work.
I don't really know about Meyer. But, I imagine him going against top NFL coaches and getting lit up pretty good. Hard to tell with college coaches, players are usually pretty stupid and talent disparities aren't obvious at first.
Holding onto Jason for so long kinda put us in a bind. A lot of the top up and coming NFL coaches are pretty secure. If I was looking, I'm not sure who I'd pick, but I'd be filling out my staff with guys that had positions under Reid, Shanahan, McVay, Belichek. Get a consortium of smart football guys in the pipeline, bring them together, and let them mature.
