True, an OC who is disciplined enough to balance run and pass, if only to keep the D honest if not pull safeties into the box, is an asset. So is an OC who builds a system around his player's skills and talents.
Catch-22 is that the OC must be calling his own plays. On game day any OC we've had in the McVay era disappears. McVay abandons the run prematurely.
McVay is our acting OC until he grows enough, trusts enough, relinquishes control enough, to let his OC run the offense.
McVay is apersonality type headed for flaming out, not just burning out until he runs out of fuse, if he doesn't make some inner changes - which will be difficult for him. Too many moving pieces in his mind all at once that he needs to control - or at least that he
thinks he needs to control.
And that's the problem - not the choice of OC's for what must be a frustrating job in ways that the OC would find almost impossible to talk about, out of affection and loyalty for McVay.
McVay will never be "hands off" as a head coach - he was that, to a great extent with old man Phillips and is, during games apparently that way still with Morris. Id like to see him grow to the pointn where he could coach and encourage all of his players on the sidelines during the games a little more, discuss strategies and substitutions suggest plays, etc. to his OC, but basically let a good man run the show.
I don't think he'll let a thirty-year-old assume that kind of a shared management role.
We'll see.
