Alex Trevelyan
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Being from the Belichick tree is not a virtue
Please stop making reference to the fact that this guy coached under Bill Belichick as if that's a plus. Belichick is the one real genius in the NFL. The word is overused, every successful coordinator or coach has the words brilliant or genius attached to his moniker, but Belichick is the only real genius in the entire league and his genius props up many lesser people. The fact is Belichick was responsible for Parcells' success, and Belichick is the reason guys like Weiss, Crennel, McDaniels, Mangini, et al got jobs they never should have had, and when removed from proximity to Belichick's genius, they failed miserably. Daboll's record as a coordinator in Cleveland shouldn't make anyone sanguine about his ability to do his job at a high level in Miami, there is just no reason to believe he's especially competent. Look at the numbers or give the Browns' offense the eye test and they fail miserably by both metrics.
It's true he had nothing to work with in Cleveland, and it's equally true that he won't have much more to work with in Miami, so how does this improve our situation? Comparing him to Belichick when Belichick was in Cleveland is another one of those idiotic attempts at analogous reasoning. The Browns, offensively and defensively were improving every year under Belichick until the wheels fell off in year five. They were dead last in the league defensively the year before he got there, they had the sixth best scoring defense in the history of the NFL (at that time) by his fourth-year! That's coaching. His offense was 11th in the league in scoring. This nonsense that Belichick was some catastrophic failure in Cleveland, but he turned it around in New England and is thus a lesson for the league is a bunch of crap. He showed glimmers of his genius in Cleveland, it just so happened he was working for Art Modell, not Robert Kraft. Stephen Ross is more Art Modell then Robert Kraft. And Daboll is who he is, a below-average coordinator hired by a below-average coach to work for a below-average organization, an organization whose greatness is in the rear view mirror getting smaller and smaller with each passing year. Daboll is proof of it.
Please stop making reference to the fact that this guy coached under Bill Belichick as if that's a plus. Belichick is the one real genius in the NFL. The word is overused, every successful coordinator or coach has the words brilliant or genius attached to his moniker, but Belichick is the only real genius in the entire league and his genius props up many lesser people. The fact is Belichick was responsible for Parcells' success, and Belichick is the reason guys like Weiss, Crennel, McDaniels, Mangini, et al got jobs they never should have had, and when removed from proximity to Belichick's genius, they failed miserably. Daboll's record as a coordinator in Cleveland shouldn't make anyone sanguine about his ability to do his job at a high level in Miami, there is just no reason to believe he's especially competent. Look at the numbers or give the Browns' offense the eye test and they fail miserably by both metrics.
It's true he had nothing to work with in Cleveland, and it's equally true that he won't have much more to work with in Miami, so how does this improve our situation? Comparing him to Belichick when Belichick was in Cleveland is another one of those idiotic attempts at analogous reasoning. The Browns, offensively and defensively were improving every year under Belichick until the wheels fell off in year five. They were dead last in the league defensively the year before he got there, they had the sixth best scoring defense in the history of the NFL (at that time) by his fourth-year! That's coaching. His offense was 11th in the league in scoring. This nonsense that Belichick was some catastrophic failure in Cleveland, but he turned it around in New England and is thus a lesson for the league is a bunch of crap. He showed glimmers of his genius in Cleveland, it just so happened he was working for Art Modell, not Robert Kraft. Stephen Ross is more Art Modell then Robert Kraft. And Daboll is who he is, a below-average coordinator hired by a below-average coach to work for a below-average organization, an organization whose greatness is in the rear view mirror getting smaller and smaller with each passing year. Daboll is proof of it.
