09-03-2019, 06:17 PM
(09-03-2019, 10:33 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think we'd like to believe that.
Reality is he was an Assistant WR coach 2 years ago and a QB Coach last year. Most teams would not hire a guy that inexperienced as a HC. So it's not like he had a ton of leverage.
It was a weird coaching search this year for all of the vacancies. Usually 2-3 teams compete to hire the same guy. This year, it seems like all of the teams had different targets.
Someone already pointed out how many other teams hired incredibly inexperienced head coaches last season, so I'll just point out that the only reason there wasn't any competition for ZT is because we were the only team willing to be patient enough to hire him. I remember reading a bunch of lists last season about head coaching candidates and ZT's name popped up on every single one of them.
And for all the criticism of how unprepared ZT is, I'll point out that he's yet to have any of the missteps some of these other coaches have made. Kitchens has gotten in to it with the media and Flores got stuck in the Kenny Stills/ownership drama. People keep expecting him to fail but he hasn't done anything to make us think it's coming yet.
