Is anyone else just genuinely surprised by how bad of a head coach McDaniels was and how much he didn't learn from his time in Denver? It's erie how similar his behavior was in Denver and Vegas. Alienating the starting QB (Cutler & Carr), trading popular players (Marshall & Waller), over working the team with long meetings and practices, completely unable to connect with his players, stunning level of arrogance sticking to his 'system' instead of doing what his players do best. Reaching in the draft (Tebow & Wilson).
It was a long time between head coaching gigs, but he seemed to learn nothing , didn't change a thing. You'd think given how his first job went he would naturally grow, reflect and figure out what he had to do differently if given another opportunity. He came back a decade later the exact same dude, I find it shocking.
Even now I'd bet in his mind this was the players or the organization's failings not his. I'm just shocked by his refusal to grow, change and adapt.
That was the worst 1.5 years that I can remember in recent memory. It was just mistake after mistake. Made it worse that we started with a solid team. McDaniels is an arrogant guy, sometimes it’s hard to tell those types of people anything or expect them to learn from past mistakes. That’s also one reason why I’m worried about AOC- if McDaniels/Ziegler botched so much, what are the chances they got AOC right ? I’m cautiously optimistic