Teicher: Candidates emerge for Chiefs’ offensive coordinator position

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Originally Posted by bowener

I took it as Herm has his philosophy that he wants the OC to follow. And the OC will help Herm install a scheme that fits the players. So what I was getting at is what if his philosophy doesnt fit the players?

I think you're letting the word "philosophy" sidetrack you into thinking about on-field things, running and ball control and such. Herm's not talking about anything on-field related in this context.

But he does have an offensive philosophy like you described, certainly. If he's the one building the team and choosing the players, I doubt he's going to pick guys who don't fit into how he wants the team to play. He picked Bowe, a thicker strong WR who can block and battle for yards after the catch, not a smaller quicker WR like Vermeil and Saunders seemed to prefer. I would assume he'd continue in that manner.

But if the way he wants to play doesn't work, like this season when we couldn't run the ball, we'll probably have no choice but to throw it more. It took awhile but eventually we did get away from running RBs right up the center's butt every play this past year.