Agreed - and I'll go further: Should never have been hired.
Mediocre at best elsewhere; no upward trajectory.
An old duck hunting adage (and one old duck hunter was a pretty fair quarterback) is that if you want to shoot a duck, you don't shoot where he is or where you want him to be. You shoot at where he's going. Otherwise all you'll do is make a lot of noise and blow a hole in the sky.
I've learned that wisdom applies to a lot of things: strategies, markets, relationships, organizational management.
As applied to the Rams, McVay hires a buddy with a flatlined poor coaching record; where is he going? What are you aiming for? McVay aims where he wants Blackburn to be with the hire.
Kotwica comes in already achieving at a high level, and with demonstrable potential to achieve higher. Where is he going? What are you aiming for in the hire?
McVay is a young genius, and still learning.
The fact that he has his team in the playoffs - again - in his short career is on him. The fact that we're in as a wild card instead of the #1 seed is also on him.
He'll ponder, plan and prepare for this next game and if he can pull off another genius McVay performance, have his players ready to march through broken glass barefoot into the jaws of hell to get the victory. That's his genius.
