JR
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You are right. no one made Billick put a gun to his head and force him to draft Kyle Boller, but at the time he thought Boller was his guy. Now you know that drafting that position is an inexact science.
That's why the QB position is the most important on the field--in sports for that matter.
Look at the Falcons. Granted, Mike Vick was no Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, but he sure was 10x better than the garbage the Falcons put on the field this season. With Vick not in the lineup, the whole franchise went down the tube.
Plus, I think Jason Garrett was one of the right place at the right time guys. He flourished in a system that had a solid QB, running game and good WRs. All he had to do was call plays. Will Garrett be as good as head coach at a struggling franchise like Atlanta or Baltimore where the talent is lacking in areas?
The NFL is such one big American Idol fest that it is sad in some ways.
Every year there is a "hot" coordinator out there that NFL GMs and owners drool over because they were part of winning organizations. Most of those guys don't even workout. I wish more teams would be like Pittsburgh and hired guys like Mike Tomlin who was not the "hot coach," but had a solid pedigree.
This copycat mentality is the sole reason why the NFL is a little watered down.
I agree for the most part. But Tomlin was the hot coordinator last year. Folks only questioned his youth. He had wowed folks with his interview skills and that was widely known around the NFL. Even when Childress hired him from Tampa..........the media here said they were more impressed with Tomlin than they were with Childress who of course was the hot coordinator the year Minnesota hired him.