Wes Welker UT Staff?

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JohnMcA60 said:
Any reason you put Hand as the OL coach? Has he been menioned for the job?
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I know he has but I don't think he has that much play calling experience.

I was just trying to piece together 5 strong coaches for offense and Hand is mentioned highly as an OL coach. Pittman ain't bad either.
 
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HuntlandVolinColo said:
I'm thinking:

Weinke: QBs, OC,
Scott: TEs assist OC,
Welker: WRs & Special Teams
Hand: OL & TE's
Gillespie: RBs

or:

Weinke: QBs, OC,
Scott: Special Teams, Recruiting Coord, Assist HC
Welker: WRs & TEs
Hand: OL, assist OC
Gillespie: RBs

That would be a solid core of Offensive coaches if we shell out the dough.
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Pay for Jim Bob
 
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orange parmejohn said:
I think some WAY over simplify how hard a coach's job is. It isn't about having a magnetic personality or being a good player. There is everything from player evaluation to nutrition to film analysis to game prep to grades to strength training to off season planning, etc. you just don't walk in the building knowing how to do those things.
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Coaching isn't rocket surgery. That being said, Welker would seem to check every box you mentioned. He would have first hand knowledge of all of it.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Who's the better physics teacher? A person who was trained to be a teacher and has a limited understanding of physics? Or a world renowned physicist who is taking his first teaching gig. Not a given that the world renowned physicist will get better results, but the limiting factor is teaching skills, not knowledge of physics. Therefore, the potential advantage is significantly higher for the physicist.

Z knows how to teach, but is limited by his knowledge of the position. Welker knows how to be dominant at the position at the highest level and make millions of dollars. Much higher ceiling.
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What you say has a lot of truth but there is another way to look at it. This is just my opinion and purely that.. but. I notice most guys that were greats end up failing at a pretty high rate as teachers of said profession because they have very narrow views on what success is. They know what they had to do to succeed and they can teach that but that won't always work for the guys they teach.

If you really look at it guy that go on to be good to great coaches that were former players tend to be the role players. Now in the case of Wes welker he falls into a weird zone. He played in a journeyman role a lot of his career and made himself a star at it. You never really saw teams feature a slot WR before him. Not saying it never happened before but never to the extent he did it. he changed the way scouts look at WR's and the value of the slot WR.

I thin welker because of the way he came about it and his journey has more upside as a coach than Peyton. I don't see Peyton as a head coach type ever.Not that he does not have the ability I just don't think he has the interest. Position coach or WR but never a head coach. I could see Wes doing great in any role coaching. I also think because of his background and proven intelligence he wouldn't do something as stupid as skipping the seasoning process and jump straight into the role of position coach. He never came off to me as an "ego" guy.
 
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I would like to insert Ed McCaffery into the "slot" receiver not being used before category. Welker had two elite QB's throwing to him 90% of the time. Not saying he couldn't be a serviceable coach, but I think it certainly wouldn't hurt.
 
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ERvolsfan said:
I think this continues to lead toward Scott being promoted to OC, then ZA leaving for being passed over, or being asked to leave.

I think if this happens I'll be ok with it...

OC - Scott (TE)
QB - Weinke
WR - Welker
OL - Mahoney replaced
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From everything I've heard (multiple radio interviews with those who cover the team), Welker was interviewed for the quality control position vacated by Sheridan, not for WR position coach.
 
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D-rock said:
If Jesus were our coach, our fan base would turn on him and call for him to be fired daily. Just think of the headlines and the thread titles...
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I mean JESUS, how do you not go for it there on 4th down!!!

That sound about right?
 
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Vol_sanity said:
Don't know, but have any of you guys seen his wife? If not, google it...you're welcome in advance
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Even in UT colors!...must be a sign!
 
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BruinVol said:
Exactly. He can't skip those steps. Some serious foolish talk in this thread.
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I agree 100% with this!^^^^

We have some serious issues in our fan base just on a functionally football literate basis.

Here dude. You played in the league. Here's the keys to Wide Receiver U.

Right.....
 
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ksgovols said:
I agree 100% with this!^^^^

We have some serious issues in our fan base just on a functionally football literate basis.

Here dude. You played in the league. Here's the keys to Wide Receiver U.

Right.....
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You think we're still known as WRU?
 
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