I believe that Bill had made the decision that after Josh left and took 2 other offensive assistants with him that he wanted BOB to replace him as OC. But he also knew BOB was contractually tied to Bama for another year. He knew that no competent OC would be willing to come in for one year. So Bill made the decision that between, Patricia, Judge, Caley, Brown, and Yates, etc, he could cobble together a representative offense for the 2022 season before handing it over to BOB in 2023.
This was the situation Patricia was thrown into. Matt might have been the guy who called the plays, but I truly believe that the coordination of the offense was in the end a collaborative effort. But because he was the play caller, for better or worse, he took almost all of the hits for this swing and miss by Bill. Bill felt it was in the best long term plan for the team getting BOB here.
It almost worked. We were 2 KO returns away from the playoffs, on the road against one of the top teams in the conference. One more win, in a season where there were several games were we were a play or two away from that one win.
We were in almost EVERY game into the 4th quarter perhaps except surprisingly enough, the Chicago game. This season might have been a disaster as it is viewed by OUR lofty expectations but it wasn't an actual disaster. A lot of good developments one can cite.
In the end Bill got what he wanted all along after Josh's departure, and that that was BOB running the offense. Now lets look forward to the end results a year from now.
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