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Zac Taylor: The Blind Leading The Blind?

Agreed on Pennington. He understands the game beyond the average qb and even more than some of the "elites".
 
Austin Tatious said:
Agreed, Vaark. Taylor would seem to be under-qualified completely. You have to ask yourself, would he be hired to be a qb coach at the NFL level, without nepotism at play. No way.

Right now, Tannehill has all the physical tools, but he could use better coaching with mental aspects, including:

1. pre-snap reads to identify mismatches to exploit,
2. pre-snap reads to account for unblocked men and contingency plans,
3. looking off safeties, and
4. pocket awareness

Sherman and Taylor would say "you think we aren't teaching these things?" Answer: you're obviously not teaching him well because he is a bright kid and something is not getting through. The teaching/coaching isn't good enough. Period.
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Thanks for succinctly putting it into perspective. The answer of course is that there's "no team" which would hire him as a position coach. Maybe assistant to that coach but with little practical coaching experience at the highest level, if he were to be fired tomorrow, I doubt he could even score one of those jobs at the NFL.
 
Vaark said:
Thanks for succinctly putting it into perspective. The answer of course is that there's "no team" which would hire him as a position coach. Maybe assistant to that coach but with little practical coaching experience at the highest level, if he were to be fired tomorrow, I doubt he could even score one of those jobs at the NFL.
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He was "Assistant QB Coach" last year, and was promoted to "QB Coach" this year, although I suspect it was just a title.
 
Chad Pennington is a great leader, has a strong competitive streak in him, and is one of the most cerebral qb's ever. I would wholly endorse him as a qb coach. I think he would make an outstanding coach, and could even move up the ladder with all of his attributes.
 
Vaark said:
Zac Taylor - Garbage In/Garbage Out?

Looking over this kid's resume, it seems that although fairly successful over a year or two playing the position at Nebraska, he's never coached an NFL-level QB. This is his first gig. Makes one wonder when looking at Tannehill's lack of development, if from a coaching standpoint it's "garbage in/garbage out." What's worse is that he's Mike Sherman's son in law, so there's nepotism at play here.. and it's just as likely that Ryan would be benched before Taylor is gone so long as daddy in law dearest is our OC.

Tannehill is raw still and in his formative years of development where coaching, good or bad has a long lingering effect. He's too smart, athletic and talented to not be making strides unless he's being instructed by someone who's main claim to fame was being an assistant Aggie coach under his wife's father and going 9-3 one year for Nebraska.

I don't know if anyone's made this observation previously, but IMO putting Taylor in his first big time QB coaching job with a Brees or Manning might work, but what credentials does he really possess to train an inexperienced QB, no matter how promising, from the ground up??

While he may not be the root of all problems, for starters IMO he needs to go and be replaced either by someone who has successfully developed pro QBs from scratch or at least played the game at the pro level, cerebrally, like a Pennington.
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The wraps on Zac Taylor are pretty big. He has even been described as having the potential to be an NFL Head Coach and I expect that is his goal. Yes, he is also Sherman's son in law, but the question is whether he has the coaching skill and talent to be the QB coach. Sometimes, the talent is there and sometimes it is not. I would be surprised if Ireland and Philbin would accept him in the role if he wasn't delivering. It should be based on merit and if it's not, we have a problem.
 
spiketex said:
The wraps on Zac Taylor are pretty big. He has even been described as having the potential to be an NFL Head Coach and I expect that is his goal. Yes, he is also Sherman's son in law, but the question is whether he has the coaching skill and talent to be the QB coach. Sometimes, the talent is there and sometimes it is not. I would be surprised if Ireland and Philbin would accept him in the role if he wasn't delivering. It should be based on merit and if it's not, we have a problem.
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He's charged with one thing: the development of an expensive and very promising raw QB - and so far as they say "the proof's in the pudding." Lots of people talk a good game, but disappear at the junction of rubber meeting the road. When he has such a steep learning curve to ascend himself, why should be entrust our prized 1st round pick to someone who's learning on the job?

 
I love this. We hire a head coach who makes his friend the OC, drafts the OC's college QB and hires the OC's son-in-law to coach the quarterbacks. And people wonder why this is a trainwreck.
 
I guess my increasing distaste for this coaching staff goes deeper than I thought......

I hate to call for the coaches head two yrs into this but these guys aren't getting the job done, you would think a team with good coaching would get better as the yr goes on, we are getting worse....I bet Belicheat could take this team and beat the Pats team we played yesterday and it wouldn't be close.....

When Ireland goes so does the coaching staff.....I always felt we should wait until the end of next yr......not so sure anymore......

We beat one good team, the Colts.....we caught the browns when they were playing the wrong QB, we beat an Atlanta team in the last seconds (everybody is kicking their butts)......we loss to a not so good Raven team, a Bills team without its starting QB and a Pats team missing its all pro DT, starting LB, all pro CB and they lost a RT during the game (still didn't hear Wake's name), Brady playing with a swollen throwing hand and we were up 17-3 at half and got blown out.......smh
 
Zac Taylor

Is this kid qualified to be a QB's coach?I'm just asking because he was the tight-ends coach at A & M
with Shermin.Plus,i thought he was a "running QB" at Nebraska.
Anybody else see this as a problem? or is it just me?
 
My bad buddy....i should have known we was thinking along the same lines...this bothers me..Zac may be ok to go get water
and run errands,but to help develope a NFL QB? IDK.
 
One would think you would need to play QB in the NFL for at least a year or two to even be considered. We need some more experience for QB coach and I would love for Marino to be a part of this organization again.
 
Namor said:
My bad buddy....i should have known we was thinking along the same lines...this bothers me..Zac may be ok to go get water
and run errands,but to help develope a NFL QB? IDK.
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AustinTatious in that thread hit the nail on the head: "is there another NFL team that would hire him to coach QBs with those modest and limited qualifications?" (paraphrasing- he said it more articulately) Nepotism at its worst
 
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