From your previous post: you're probably unaware of the fact that we currently have a positional coach on our roster who went directly from NFL player to NFL positional coach. From your link: Upon retiring in 2000, he joined the Denver coaching staff as an offensive assistant and special teams coach (2000–02), before joining the Jacksonville Jaguars as the running backs coach (2003–04). Your link does not support your previous post. Care to try again, or perhaps give up and say your previous post was wrong? You should be more careful.
Maybe you thought you could slide by there changing from positional coach to any old "coach", but of course you know there's a big difference between being in charge of a unit and being an assistant to some other person who has direct responsibility for his assignment. Anyway, let's get back to the substance - if we can agree that a positional coach should have some prior experience before taking on that responsibility, I would agree that it would be more acceptable to give Chad a kind of "assistant" job that is more like an intern or learning position. Of course I concede I would prefer the former Miami Dolphin not come back at all, but I guess lots of people around here don't care about that sort of thing anymore.
Of course it was a simple error on my part using positional coach instead of coach. There was no intent to fool anyone. But now you're going to make it about my simple error to deter from your being proven wrong. You are obviously now changing your argument because the one you've been spewing is stupid. So to make sure we're all on the same page, you never specifically said positional coach, you just said coach. You're losing this from multiple angles now.
An intern position is not a coaching position. Yes they are on the coaching staff. You yourself acknowledged the relevant difference by referring to a positional coach. I said a coach the team relies on. Teams do not rely on interns. You know what I meant, which is why you referred to a positional coach. I would prefer you not refer to my position as stupid. I am trying my best to be respectful of your position, which you can be sure I very much disagree with and think is, well, not well thought out. But... if that's the kind of way you want to have discussions around here, well, I guess that says something.
You're beyond ridiculous. I admitted and still admit I made an error using the term postional coach. Given the fact that you were only arguing that someone couldn't coach in the NFL without prior coaching experience prior to then, there's no reason for anyone to believe you were specifically referring to a "positional coach". That term is actually pretty general anyway when you think about it. I could argue that special teams is a position. You are trying to make this an argument about my misuse of a term rather than what it actually was the entire time. Where do you come up with intern position? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lynn Your position is in fact stupid because we have at least one coach on our team who defies exactly what you're trying to argue. I'm done wasting my time with your ridiculous attempts at a manipulated argument. Have fun.
Clearly my point was why should we think Chad would be great at coaching in a position of authority. The prior posts had him as QB coach, even Offensive coordinator. Lynn was an assistant to the OC. If my posts following my reference to being great at a position of authority did not continue to mention those aspects, I am sorry if you did not follow the dicussion back to that point. OF COURSE some team could call a duck a swan, hang a sign on it, whatever. That doesn't mean the duck would be a swan. As for your last paragraph, is that a white flag? Your apology for changing your argument is accepted. In my spirit of generosity, I also apologize for not carrying my first thread here in its entirety. Perhaps that is how you got lost. Still, ftr, no one has explained why we should bring Chad in as a coach with any real responsibility. You're welcome to come back to the discussion if you wish. It's only a message board, even if you had some issues today.
IT is also relevant if one looks over the resumes of the coaches on the Jet staff that ALL of them have significant prior experience at coaching prior to coming to the team, other than Brian Smith, who appears to have no direct responsibiliies, either, just as Lynn did not in Denver. I for one hope they stick to that approach.
