You appear to be in minority in your opinion of McCoy.
"In addition to the Bears, the Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers, and Philadelphia Eagles also asked—and were granted permission—to interview McCoy for their vacant head coaching positions during the Broncos' playoff bye week."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McCoy_(American_football_coach)
I'm sure that I am in the minority opinion. So what? Is that how you decide your positions ? Take a poll of what others believe, and adopt that as your's ?
Me ? I prefer to think for myself. McCoy was on Carolina's coaching staff from 2000 to 2008. Highest position attained was QB coach and passing game coordinator. Two things that he was never asked to do were create an entire offensive scheme, or call the plays.
In 2009, he was hired by the Denver Broncos to fill the position of Offensive Coordinator. The coach of course was Josh McDaniels. The Broncos ran Josh McDaniels offense and Josh McDaniels handled the play calling. When Josh was fired 12 games into the 2010 season, McCoy wasn't named as interim HC. Instead, Eric Studesville, the running backs coach, was. McCoy probably called the plays in those last 4 games, but they still ran McDaniels' offense.
At the beginning of 2011, from all reports, the playbook hadn't changed much, Denver was still running McDaniels' offense up through game 5. Tebow took over and people talk about how McCoy scrapped the playbook and came up with a new offense, but that just isn't the case.
Here's a good article about it:
The Broncos learned the hard way that a traditional offense wouldn’t work well at this point in Tebow’s career. While his first instance of NFL clutch play — i.e. Tebow Time — came when he led an improbable comeback against Miami in late October, his deficiencies as a conventional pro passer were badly exposed the following week during a 45-10 home loss to Detroit. Tebow was sacked seven times and threw an interception that was returned 100 yards for a touchdown.
The rout prompted a radical philosophical shift that called for new packages in addition to what Denver had installed during the preseason. The following week, Oakland was so taken aback by Denver’s spread option that Tebow and running back Willis McGahee both rushed for more than 100 yards in a 38-24 win.
The Broncos have since fluctuated between college trappings and pro-style plays to take advantage of Tebow’s mobility.
“It’s just one more dimension,” Broncos head coach John Fox said. “We still have conventional runs. We still throw the ball. We have the passing game we installed in training camp. The option stuff and the quarterback threat of running is something we added.”
McCoy said he asked Tebow and wide receiver Demaryius Thomas – who played in a triple-option attack late in his college career at Georgia Tech – for input on plays they liked to run. McCoy also leaned on Broncos assistants with college experience and analyzed the Gators offense run by Urban Meyer, who was Tebow’s head coach at Florida from 2006 to 2009.
“I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t know a lot about this,” said McCoy, who became Denver’s offensive coordinator in 2009. “We had done some (option) stuff last year with Tim so I knew the basics. But it was like I was in second grade just learning some things. As the weeks went on, we kept building off it.”
TL;DR version is that McCoy didn't scrap the playbook and start over. To his credit, they changed the overall philosophy to being a run centric offense, and they added in some option plays.
To illustrate what I mean, say that Bill and Josh decide to be a run focused offense this year. They wouldn't have to scrap the playbook. Rather, they'd use the plays already in the book, the change would be in which plays they called at specific times and that the run to pass ratio would change.
Back to my point. McCoy changed philosophy and added in some option packages for the final 13 games of the season. Even then, his play calling through the first 3 quarters of games was suspect. In the 4th Q, Denver opened things up and the offense improved.
Manning comes in, Tebow gets traded. McCoy now designs "his offense". Denver doesn't do all that well at the beginning of the season. Again, they have trouble scoring points in the first half, then they opened things up in the 2nd half and put points on the board. They also switched over to running Peyton and Tom Moore's Colts offense. BAM, they turn into an offensive juggernaught.
Something I will give McCoy credit for is his willingness to adapt. I don't think he did nearly as good a job with Tebow as many give him credit for, and I don't think he did that great a job with designing an offense and calling plays for Manning.
That the Cardinals, Bills, Chargers and Eagles all sought McCoy out as a coach is irrelevant in my opinion. Last I checked, the Chargers, Bills, Cardinals and Eagles weren't very good teams, so I definitely question their collective organizational judgment. The Cardinals were 45-51 in Whisenhunt's 6 years there, 18-30 over the last 3. The Bills were 16-32 under 3 years with Chan Gailey. The Chargers were 56-40 under Norv, but in the last 3 years were 24-24. The Eagles were 130-93 under Reid, but 22-26 over the last 3 years. (In fairness to Reid, I think that the situation with his son has really affected him.).
Anyways, each year, a number of coaches in the NFL are fired, and a number of others should have been fired but weren't. If coaches are getting fired, that means they weren't very good. So again, that some teams think well of a coach is irrelevant in my opinion. Look at the details and form your own opinion.
