The biggest problem with the situation in Cleveland (as poor Romeo is now discovering) is that Belichick was right when he said if the ownership and FO structure is bad, you are just not going to succeed. Joe Gibbs is learning this as well...you really need a solid, supportive and stable owner who is willing to help you succeed. Intelligence and good business sense can't hurt either.
This is the headache he's having in my mind. I don't beileve the personnel staff and coaching staff a fully on the same page. Not to say that Romeo hasn't allowed some of the troubles to develop, Dilfer feuding with Carthon and being traded to SF is a case in point, Frye needed another year to season.
For an analogy, it's like watching the Ravens draft for the Patriots...
This is the headache he's having in my mind. I don't beileve the personnel staff and coaching staff a fully on the same page. Not to say that Romeo hasn't allowed some of the troubles to develop, Dilfer feuding with Carthon and being traded to SF is a case in point, Frye needed another year to season.
For an analogy, it's like watching the Ravens draft for the Patriots...
Oh, absolutely! Romeo is kind of going through the same "learning experience" BB went through. You make mistakes, you hopefully learn from them, and then if and when you get another shot (a big "if", sadly) you try to apply what you have learned.
BB is the ultimate success story in learning from his mistakes.
So ... say RC gets canned in Cleveland - like his mentor.
His mentor then became a Coordinator again.
Would the Patriots take Romeo back?
As a coordinator?
Of what? Replacing whom? Pees gone on to become a HC somewhere?