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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.IMHO the perfect head coaching position is one where you can work well with the GM and where the team has plenty of talent but has underperformed due to poor coaching. Which team was that last year? The LA Rams, a talented team who played lousy because of arguably the worst coach in the game. Sean McVay comes in, the Rams get good, and McVay is a coach of the year candidate.
Now, let's look at the Colts and the Titans. Although the Colts were poorly coached, they arguably have the least talented team in the league, plus a whack-ball owner. Now, what about Tennessee? As you say, a great fit. Josh knows and likes the GM. Plenty of talent on the team, defense, offensive line, etc. The main problem is the underperformance of Mariota. However, how is Mariota being used and coached? In college he was an absolute terror for defenses with his college type spread offense. What does Mularkey do? Put him in a "smash mouth" tight end heavy offense, and try to adapt Mariota to his system instead of adapting the system to his QB (the way KC, Philadelphia, and Houston has).
It seems to me that with a really good offensive coach Mariota could take a major leap and the Titans could become a really dangerous team next year. No wonder Josh is thinking seriously about the Tennessee job, it seems perfect.
Simple explanation: Indy would hoist a 'Winner of 2018 Coach Search' banner the minute Josh signs, immortalizing him forever ....................which is niceStill not sure why Josh would go to Indy.
The Colts are drafting third
The Colts have a TE (Doyle) and an OWR (Hilton)
McDaniels would have Brissett to help Luck learn the new offensive system
The Colts are looking at $84m for next year, as of now. NFL 2018 Salary Cap Tracker
Guys will spring loose from the Patriots (i.e. Butler, quite possibly one of the RBs and one or more of the WRs)
That's a start
I definitely wouldn't go to Tenn just because of the fact that they have Logan Ryan on a 10 mil/yr contract.
Unfortunately, at this point I think there is simply too much danger that: i) Luck has been destroyed by Grigson and the team Grigson put around him similar to what Houston did to David Carr; and/or ii) he will never fully recover from his injury.
I don't think the Tennessee job is attractive but, there's not many openings left and we don't know what kind of challenge Josh wants to face but if he goes to Tennessee he better get used to that salty taste of losing because that's what that franchise is all about. No pedigree.
Josh needs a QB with good passing skills to execute his offense, Mariota is very limited but Tennessee will stick to him for years like teams stuck with Flacco, Dalton and others. Your QB is not bad enough for you to make a move and there's hope he can keep taking you to the playoffs and hopefully getting hot in a playoff run. Also the team presents no direction as of now, its a interesting challenge if he is looking for that kind of situation where he can start from the scratch and develop his program but for immediate success the Indy job seems more prone to that if they get the right QB on the draft or Luck comes back healthy.
If he is patient, in a year or two there will be openings in Dallas, Seattle, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, maybe New England, maybe Baltimore (long shot).
One thing that speaks volumes is that they fired Murlakey in a very unethical way after giving him an extension right after the game so maybe something went on on the backstages? maybe a handshake agreement with Josh?
Lombardi claims the contract with the Colts and McDaniels is too far in motion to break now.
That the Titans missed out on Josh by winning in KC he tweeted the Titans went one step forward three steps back.
BB is going to wind up having to completely rebuild his coaching staff isn't he?
More immediate success in Indy than in TEN? Have you compared their rosters recently?
Really would be the same no brainer as Patricia choosing Detroit over the Giants.
Its not a rumor Colts are confirming itI'm just now reading rumors that he's "likely" to take the Colts job.