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Originally Posted by HemiEd
Not as long as Herm is the Coach.
I don't think the situation is the way it appeared to us.
We have to go all the way back, to when Herm accepted the position. He quickly found out, the fans were very concerned about any potential degradation of the Circus offense (#1). He promised not to mess with it.
Herm's huge ego, would not allow the offense to be bigger than him. I think he systematically took steps to dismantle the offense.
For him not to be the bad guy, and lose the fans, the offensive system had to fail on it's own.
1) Get rid of Terry Shea, an important element to Trent's success. Give him a QB coach that knew much less than the water boy.
2) Insult the very fiber of the offense, their pride. Willie Roaf says that is enough, he retires suddenly shortly after Herm takes over. This after promising Will Shields he would return.
3) Trent gets injured, making the goal so much easier to attain.
4) Upon Trents return, give him a game plan that restricts what he can do. Trent was visibly frustrated, and let his displeasure be known. He was then stripped of his leadership, that is Herm's role!
5) When the playoff game rolled around, it was the perfect stage to let Trent fail. Totally hamstring the offense with the game plan. Leave him in until nobody has a question he can no longer perform. Herm's buddy needed a SB victory to keep the dogs off anyway.
Mission complete, Dick Vermeil's Circus offense has been successfully sabotaged in only one season!
Now for some real Herm football!
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I just don't understand why people keep saying Herm "dismantled" the offense, when it's fairly clear to most that the wheels fell off without any need for dismantling.
1) Shea doesn't seem to be making magic in Miami.
2) How can you possibly attribute this to Herm? Roaf left the team(especially Shields) high and dry after
changing his mind. He said over and over it wasn't because of Herm... insisting that camp would probably have been easier than DV's marathon camp sessions.
3) Again, Herm did not run on the field and blast Trent in the head. He had no part in that.
4) Upon Trent's return, Trent did not have the offensive line to hang out in the pocket for minutes at a time like he's used to. They could have thrown the playbook out the window and told Trent to do whatever the hell he wanted, and he still wouldn't have gotten passes off any quicker. He simply was not the right QB behind a crappy OLine.
5) Again, I didn't see Herm out there knocking the ball out of every one of the receiver's hands. Every one of the wideouts dropped passes.
The offensive system did fail on it's own. You're correct about that. But DV had as much to do with it's failure as Herm did.