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[QUOTE="Timonen, post: 817774, member: 81"]
I want to believe this and give the benefit of the doubt...but the lack of down/distance logic on playcalling makes me fearful that his brain just isn't constructing things in an especially effective way.  If you can't manage the situation when you have 2 downs from 3rd and 11, you've successfully made 5-7 yards plays all day, but you go for all 11 on 3rd and then find yourself in 4th and 11, I honestly don't trust you to make good decisions on personnel, overall game plans, etc.  My hope is that his weaknesses are compartmentalized, but I've found that's usually not how humans work.  Either you have a handle on the aspects of your job or you don't.  His life has been football for 20+ years, right?  That stuff should just be muscle memory and "feel" at this point.  That it's not is an honest concern for me.  Guys like Mike Locksley and Ron Zook (and Frank Wilson and a bunch of others we can highlight from across the country) have ceilings because they can't really coach at the highest level.  That said, there's no telling whether his ceiling is still a lot higher than our last 15 years...so I'm up for trying.  Hopefully it works well enough for him to have somebody come and poach him.
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