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<blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1089841" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>I can understand feeling like "there's nobody guaranteed to be better out there" or "the next guy could be worse," but again, this was the case when we moved on from McCarthy, too. Nobody thought the Titans OC was going to come in and be an immediate smash hit. Not knowing yet who to hire next is not an excuse for extending with the current guy.</p><p></p><p>And as I've said many times before, I don't think Matt is a bad coach. I think he does a lot of things well, but I also think we have already seen his ceiling with us. I mean, at this point we have 7 years of first-hand "tape" on him. How can anyone look at all of that and still reasonably expect that he will improve beyond what we have already seen? It's not even so much that I think he lacks the "X's and O's" capacity to do better but rather that it just seems to be hard-wired into his DNA. I mean, the guy reverts to the same tendencies with an injury-ridden 9-8 team with Love at QB as he did with a 13-win team with an MVP-winning Rodgers at the helm. It's just who he is. It's like asking (and expecting) a lifelong introvert to suddenly switch to being an extrovert. You might be able to develop those traits some more and stretch your comfort zone but at the end of the day you'll always go back to your "wiring". </p><p></p><p>So ultimately I still find myself feeling the same as I said months ago in this thread: We pretty much find ourselves in purgatory. LaFleur and Gute are always going to be able to put together and coach a team that is relevant or competitive, broadly speaking. And they will almost always clear the minimum expectation, which seems to basically be just making the playoffs. They won't be consistently bad enough or regularly failing to meet that expectation so as to get fired, but I don't see this pairing ever rising above the level we have already seen, either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magooch, post: 1089841, member: 17987"] I can understand feeling like "there's nobody guaranteed to be better out there" or "the next guy could be worse," but again, this was the case when we moved on from McCarthy, too. Nobody thought the Titans OC was going to come in and be an immediate smash hit. Not knowing yet who to hire next is not an excuse for extending with the current guy. And as I've said many times before, I don't think Matt is a bad coach. I think he does a lot of things well, but I also think we have already seen his ceiling with us. I mean, at this point we have 7 years of first-hand "tape" on him. How can anyone look at all of that and still reasonably expect that he will improve beyond what we have already seen? It's not even so much that I think he lacks the "X's and O's" capacity to do better but rather that it just seems to be hard-wired into his DNA. I mean, the guy reverts to the same tendencies with an injury-ridden 9-8 team with Love at QB as he did with a 13-win team with an MVP-winning Rodgers at the helm. It's just who he is. It's like asking (and expecting) a lifelong introvert to suddenly switch to being an extrovert. You might be able to develop those traits some more and stretch your comfort zone but at the end of the day you'll always go back to your "wiring". So ultimately I still find myself feeling the same as I said months ago in this thread: We pretty much find ourselves in purgatory. LaFleur and Gute are always going to be able to put together and coach a team that is relevant or competitive, broadly speaking. And they will almost always clear the minimum expectation, which seems to basically be just making the playoffs. They won't be consistently bad enough or regularly failing to meet that expectation so as to get fired, but I don't see this pairing ever rising above the level we have already seen, either. [/QUOTE]
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