Zac Taylor Future

[MileHighGrowler]

(09-22-2020, 04:14 PM)fredtoast Wrote: He did not get hired that late.  Many times new head coaching hires come from the staff of Super Bowl teams.  He had plenty of time to evaluate his team, free agents, and draft prospects.  And he was the head coach when we gave Preston Brown, Bobby Hart, and Gio Bernard big free agent contracts.  So those were his guys, not Marvin's.

What did hurt him was losing Boling, Green, and his first round pick before training camp even started.  That really set him back.  But this year he got a huge bonus with the return of Jonah and AJ.

You can take players from someone else's roster and extend them.  But the team he had last year wasn't driven through FA and the draft and really and truly "his".  It's hard to do in the time he had.  Especially as a first-time HC without the direct experience of building a team.  

I'm not giving the guy a pass, I'm just saying it's not like he was hired the day the season ended, and got to really build it out the way he'd probably like.  

I find Taylor highly likable, and I want him to be successful.  I just think he's going to struggle with ever being a successful HC if he can't let go of some of the responsibility he's take upon himself.  And I think it's been compounded by the timing of his two off-seasons.