Last Monday, Bill Belichick’s miserable offseason job hunt came to an end. Unknown factors led a plethora of general managers fighting for their careers in a cutthroat field to choose to align themselves with inexperienced, youthful coaches over an eight-time Super Bowl champion.
Dan Morgan, the president of football operations for the Panthers, chose to bring in Dave Canales, the offensive coordinator for Tampa Bay, who he had worked with during their overlap with the Seahawks. While Canales followed Pete Carroll from USC to Seattle, where he played a variety of offensive positions until accepting a promotion from the Buccaneers, Morgan rose through the Seahawks levels until 2017.
Jim Harbaugh informed the Chargers of his interest rather than conducting several interviews.
Atlanta, meanwhile, chose to go with Raheem Morris, a former defensive coordinator with the Falcons, who was elevated by CEO Rich McKay to the position of interim head coach in 2020 following Dan Quinn’s midseason dismissal.
Morris was hired by the Falcons instead of Belichick, which seems ridiculous at first. The quarterback will serve as the link between the team’s musculoskeletal system and the personnel who are the brains behind the scenes. The Falcons have excellent bones. Though Belichick’s assessment of offensive talent has been less than ideal in recent years, he still at least assures you of a top-5 defense. Disagreements with owner Art Modell led to his termination, even though he accomplished it in Cleveland despite his lackluster overall record. He then oversaw New England’s ferocious defenses for 25 years. Finding a solution for their quarterback dilemma would have been all they would have needed.
