Josh McDaniels Stays!
To the people of Cleveland, doomed by the fates to fettered to the corpse of a franchise whose very existence is an insult to the original Browns and an abomination in the eyes of the gods, this means the Browns will continue on as always. Jimmy Haslam has proven once again why his team will never achieve even the most modest respectability. Now that they’ve hired this inspirational, high-energy adrenaline junkie:
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For the people of New England, this means the Patriots will continue on as always. For at least another season. Because nothing Josh McDaniels could do this January could get him a job offer. Not even bring Mrs. McDaniels along for the interviews.
So for the rare offseason, the Patriots get some continuity. Granted, Bill Belichick considers the Special Teams coach to be a coordinator level position and they did lose Joe Judge to the Giants. But any time they can go from one season to the next without having to replace the guy running the offense or the defense, we can consider that a win.
So much for everything we’ve been hearing for weeks now. That not only was McDaniels leaving, but he was already lining up coworkers to bring with him to Cleveland:
… but that he was also going to have Tom Brady riding shotgun when he and the Mrs. drove the U-Haul. Seriously, that’s been the speculation from New England’s imbecile community; that Brady was going to follow McDaniels out to Ohio so he could be in the same system as always, only throwing to Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry, and that the Browns would then flip Baker Mayfield to the Patriots.
Instead what we’re getting is one more reason to keep this Dynasty going. To once again retool instead of rebuild. To add some components parts through the draft and free agency, but to keep the core, essential elements intact. This means that if Brady were to leave, it would mean learning an entirely new offense, a new system with different reads, signals and nomenclature, for the first time since he went from Michigan to Charlie Weis’ playbook 20 years ago. At the age of 43, no less. In other words, in the big Swinger’s Party that is NFL coach-hiring season, McDaniels and Brady drew each other’s keys out of the bowl and will probably just stay together.
In other, other words, Coach stays.