10-15-2019, 03:58 AM
(10-14-2019, 02:14 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: It was said Zac Taylor “nailed the interview.” So who was doing the interviewing? Mike Brown and Duke Tobin.
I’m just wondering what they asked. “What’s your favorite color?”
Zac Taylor is an excellent public speaker. He comes off as being very bright and passionate, probably because he possesses both of those qualities to a high degree. We are however seeing what happens when one of the least experienced coaching staffs of all time(if not THE most inexperienced) takes command of a losing team that hasn't drafted well lately. Instead of making concessions for JDR and handing the reigns of the defense over to someone with experience, ZT decided to hire someone who he knew he could get along with and exert influence over. Instead of hiring an OC to perform conventional OC duties, he decided that it was a good idea to call the plays himself. Perhaps his apparent intelligence, passion, and communication skills have been overshadowed by excessive hubris and nepotism up to this point.
Tobin doesn't deserve a pass. His chronic whiffs in the first round, bizarre obsession with corners, failure to build complete lines on either side of the ball, and inability to convince the organization that a cohesive FA strategy(with contingency plans) is necessary should all be taken into account. In such a ruthlessly competitive business where only the elite of the elite will cut it, Tobin appears to have fallen by the wayside.
