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Originally Posted by Brock
It is not a minor point to ask you to address factual inaccuracies in your posts. The reason I'm not addressing what you refer to as points is because the topic at hand is not one I care about. But no, your OP was not well thought out. You are calling Arians out for doing what damn near every hc in the league does.
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Sorry for lumping you on the fact-check. I made a wrong assumption about Childress and you called me out on it. I was more talking about being ticky tack with people calling a simple mistake reeruned.
Good. Now you're arguing on the points. If you think he's doing what every HC does, then the post is well thought out and challenges you on that.
1. Coaches hire only buddies? Didn't we spend a whole offseason bitching about hiring off of a tree? Reid hired Sutton. Chudzinski hired Horton. Bradley's looking to hire Marinelli. Chip Kelly hired Pat Shurmur. Marrone hired Mike Pettine. Trestman hired Mel Tucker (don't think there's a tree connection). So you're wrong. Arians is the ONLY coach this offseason to refuse to look outside of his own tree. He won't even pull from the GM's tree!
2. Hiring a DC with that much 2-gap experience is unusual. I'll be pissed if Sutton runs that, but doesn't sound like he will. Bowles, on the other hand... it seems likely this is what he'll run
3. Hiring an OC with that much inexperience is unusual but ill-advised for inexperienced head coaches. I get that Reid is doing it, but it doesn't feel at all like it's for the same reasons. The kind of control Arians has asked for has been done and often failed miserably. And again... this offseason, you have strong, opinionated coaches who hired strong, opinionated coordinators (apart from Reid). So it's not common practice at all.