If there truly are players who think Bagent gives them a greater chance to win games, I shudder at the future of this team. Seriously. I'm not going to argue with anyone about this. I simply can't believe that to be true, Silvey has to be MSU for clicks/views/listens.
edit: Seeing a lot of chatter that its not "veteran players" but one veteran player who got paid in the off season and apparently pays more attention to public perception that he admits. This I don't doubt.
I was looking over Thomas Browns' experience and it is decent. He has a Super Bowl ring as the Assistant Head Coach for the Rams under Sean McVay. He's held a number of coaching positions from strength coordinator in the beginning of his career to TE coach, RB coach (his NFL position that he played), Passing Game Coordinator - and OC. He has interviewed for some head coaching jobs too.
I really like this guy as an interim OC. We can see if he can do anything with this cesspool mess and salvage Caleb Williams.
If there truly are players who think Bagent gives them a greater chance to win games, I shudder at the future of this team. Seriously. I'm not going to argue with anyone about this. I simply can't believe that to be true, Silvey has to be MSU for clicks/views/listens.
It may make perfect sense to play Bagent right now. Two possible benefits are that it gives Caleb a chance to stop the regression/deterioration and settle down a bit. He was playing a lot better earlier in the season. We talk a lot about letting a young QB have some time to acclimate to the NFL gig. Why not give Caleb a few games to get his feet back under him?
The 2nd reason for doing this is that without an offensive line it makes no sense to leave Caleb out there as the human punching bag. I hate to see Bagent put in that position, but hey, he is not the future here, Caleb is.
The Bears were very proud of their process that led them to Shane Waldron this offseason. Of nine OC candidates they interviewed over a 2 week period, Waldron was the only candidate the Bears interviewed twice.
Eberflus said that Waldron stood out as a candidate "because of his ability to communicate and his ability to make things clear and concise in his presentation and the way he did it. He was clearly the guy that we thought was the best for us."
Yesterday, when asked specifics that he was looking at changing, the first thing Eberflus mentioned was in-game communication.
The biggest problem through 10 weeks is what Eberflus was touting as Waldron's greatest strength in March of this year.
If there truly are players who think Bagent gives them a greater chance to win games, I shudder at the future of this team. Seriously. I'm not going to argue with anyone about this. I simply can't believe that to be true, Silvey has to be MSU for clicks/views/listens.
It may make perfect sense to play Bagent right now. Two possible benefits are that it gives Caleb a chance to stop the regression/deterioration and settle down a bit. He was playing a lot better earlier in the season. We talk a lot about letting a young QB have some time to acclimate to the NFL gig. Why not give Caleb a few games to get his feet back under him?
The 2nd reason for doing this is that without an offensive line it makes no sense to leave Caleb out there as the human punching bag. I hate to see Bagent put in that position, but hey, he is not the future here, Caleb is.
I see your points and understand them. But I think if the season is truly about developing Williams (and I think in general as a fan base we lost sight of that) its too late now to go to Bagent. We know Williams can play at an NFL level, we saw it. Lets see if a new OC and maybe (although I doubt it will happen) a change in OFF philosophy (again it will have to come within the same system) brings out that Williams again.
