What he'll say when he is gone, all of which will be true, is: 1. I worked with four starting QB's in six years. 2. Two of those QB's were injured at key times. 3. One of those QB's had more pull with the head coach and front office than I did and ran whatever he wanted to until he got hurt. 4. The cohesion on the offensive line evaporated twice due to a turnstile being handed a job when a decent vet left. 5. My system would have worked fine with the right personnel. 6. I wanna talk to my grandmaw! Six seasons is long enough to make a system work. Brian Schottenheimer has been unable to do that for whatever reason. At a certain point a franchise has to move on and go try something else when the thing they have been trying is not working. Alternately they become the Matt Millen Lions eventually.
Who remembers Schotty on Hard Knocks talking about how he would give his Superbowl ring to his father? When I think about the arrogance of that conversation mixed with the failure that is his offense..I can't help but laugh.
Reporter: Brian, there have been a lot of rumors that you're job is in serious Jeopardy. How do you respond to that? Schotty: Well mr. reporter, it really hurts my feelings you know? It's not easy to call plays on game day and it makes it even harder when all you big meanies are criticising my every move. It's like I'm playing against the opposing defense AND all the naysayers in the media. I know I've never been a great coach, but what do you people want from me? Is this what you guys want?
Yeah, I should have mentioned that the right personnel included Peyton Manning or Tom Brady at QB, Andre Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald at WR, Tony Gonzalez at TE, Marshall Faulk at HB, etc. Any kid can make any system work well in Madden if he just grabs all the superstars to run it. That's about where Schotty is in terms of competence at this point after 6 years on the job.
haha what a joke... if hes an excellent football coach, what does that make all the other coordinators coaching offenses than are better than ours. i dont see how you can not fire this guy... how many chances does a guy get? the thing im scared about is if somehow by a miracle we win this week and squeak into the playoffs again, i think he might stay...
here is the problem. he might be right.however the personnel he wants is not the same as the personnel rex wants. the o.c. and h.c. have to have the same philosophy. rex and schotty don't mix
My biggest problem is that after six years of Schotty ball I don't even know what his philosophy is. I guess he wants to be a "game plan" coach who runs or passes based on the opposing D's weakness, it looks like he wants to use a lot of trick plays and motion to confuse the opposing D, he's multiple in formations but not that multiple in personnel (e.g. he's generally in 12, 21, and in passing situations 11: you rarely see four or five wides or three TEs or anything like that), but beyond that I don't really know what he's trying to do out there.
Of course he's not worried. He's a pompous arrogant scumbag who couldn't call a play to save his life. Maybe the Jets need to get blown out by the Dolphins for them to finally realize he does more harm than good.
what i would like to know is how theres all this talk about schotty getting a call to be a head coach somewhere... who in their right mind would want an offensive coordinator who couldnt coordinate an offense to be anything better than 27th in the league TO COACH AN ENTIRE TEAM!?! what makes sense here? why does this guy get such praise? what has he done that deserves this speculation? i am baffled by this and would be shocked if any team decided this was the best guy available...
im right there with you.. that would be amazing in so many ways i just dont see the logic there... this guy cant even get one unit to even be mediocre, just imagine him having to coach an entire team :rofl:
