I've gotta give the Bengals credit...

[Benton]

It's hard to gauge how a guy is going to do as head coach based off success or failure as a coordinator. HCs are more about philosophy, game management, player management.

You can have a championship winning guy with a handful of HoF caliber players that's well liked, give him a team and that same guy can give you 15 years of mind numbing disappointment, excuses and dangling carrots.



I haven't watched enough Patricia interviews to have a good opinion on the guy. I think he's ok, but he hasn't had a ton of problems to overcome. Personally, I don't pay a lot of attention to Belichek's coordinators because they rarely turn out to be good HCs.