Re: Could this 'Charlie to the Pats' thing really happen?
As with every coach working for Belichick, the question is always who is the wizard behind the curtain - Belichick, Brady or the coordinator. Weis left for Notre Dame with that question, and it remains a question to most as he did not succeed without Belichick. College football is won by offenses, not defenses under the BCS system (if someone can point to the Steelers or Ravens in the NCAA that shuts down opposing offenses, by all means point that team out as I don't see it in any ranked team), so Weis created an inferior product that could not compete with the big boys for the championship and cannot claim he was told what offense to run. As the Pats' offense is tops in the AFC for scoring at this point, what could Weis claim as his effect/contribution if he assumed the coordinator role? As he left for Notre Dame with aspirations of being a head coach, it is not clear how he advances his cause by returning to the Patriots system and his old job.
I like Weis and respect his role with the Patriots as offensive coordinator during the title years, but I will frankly state I am not sure how much he does relative to the other key players in the organization. People here frequently dumped on McDaniels as OC for the Pats, yet he goes to Denver, completely overhauls the team and somehow wins 6 straight and is contending for a playoff spot despite the expectations of most so-called media experts predicting his failures this year. Given this peculiar outcome, I am not sure what Weis would add to the current mix that would make the Pats better. The 2007 Pats offense was infinitely better than any one of his offenses, so would the theory be McDaniels was a genius and smarter than Weis and thus the result, that a Weis offense with Welker and Moss would have been even better than the 2007 offense, or is it simply if Weis returns the Lombardi will return to the Patriots by virtue of some application of Newton's law of universal gravitation?
One suggestion I heard on the radio is he assume the OC role in KC, which has a lousy offense right now, and make it competent. That would certainly help his resume and future prospects at the college or professional level. The only place he goes with the Pats, which is at or near the top of the NFL in most offensive statistics, is down. That doesn't help him at all, so I do not see him returning to the Pats in any capacity.
