Some thoughts on Pete Carmichael and how the scheme / System should look.

[BigAl2526]

On 5/2/2026 at 11:27 PM, Buffalo716 said:

Not as much as you would think because if an offensive coordinator was being severely handicapped he wouldn't be getting a head coaching job 

 

There's a reason why nobody hires Eric bienemy as a head coach and he was a successful coordinator under Andy Reid.. it's because everybody knows it was Andy Reid 

 

Sean McDermott if you want to give him one fault.. it's that he trusts all his coordinators to coach.. he let daboll ken Dorsey and Joe Brady run the offense which is why they all got head coaching interviews and two got jobs

 

If Sean McDermott was pulling strings nobody would hire the guy who was handicapped.. they would just hire another coordinator who had more on his plate

 

It certainly was Joe Brady's offense.. even McDermott let his defensive coordinators coach 

 

His biggest mistake you could say would be he gave too much leeway to his coordinators.. especially on defense

 

You don't get a head coaching job by walking in the interviews saying I've been handicapped and it's not really my offense and it's not what I want to do.. they will say thank you have a good day 

 

Fact two of McDermott's offensive coordinators got head coaching jobs is a testament that he allows them to coach and grow and puts them on the fast line to promotion

Obviously, I don't know what the inner workings of NFL teams look like, but it doesn't seem like it would be out of place for a head coach to say to his offensive coordinator, "I would like to have an offense that generally has some balance between running and passing and gives us the chance to maintain ball control.  Can you do that?"  To me, a coordinator listening to what his head coach wants in the way of a general strategy does not demean his ability to design plays or call games.  Nor would it disqualify him from advancing and becoming a head coach.   But then, that's just my opinion.

[GunnerBill]

7 minutes ago, BigAl2526 said:

Obviously, I don't know what the inner workings of NFL teams look like, but it doesn't seem like it would be out of place for a head coach to say to his offensive coordinator, "I would like to have an offense that generally has some balance between running and passing and gives us the chance to maintain ball control.  Can you do that?"  To me, a coordinator listening to what his head coach wants in the way of a general strategy does not demean his ability to design plays or call games.  Nor would it disqualify him from advancing and becoming a head coach.   But then, that's just my opinion.

 

You normally have that conversation when you are hiring them. It is trickier mid flow to get a coordinator to radically change what they are doing. Even season to season you want carry over. 

 

The Head Coach normally has a meeting with each of his 3 coordinators in a week running up to a game to go over the gameplan for that week and that is his chance to influence at a micro level in terms of taking plays out and putting them in. But you can't re-design and install your offense week to week in the NFL. There just isn't time. 

 

Normally if you want to really change your offense stylistically or run / pass balance etc it requires an OC change. Your best chance to set the parameters of what you want is when you are hiring a new guy.