Look around the league at the top offenses in football and you’re unlikely to find deadweight coaches trudging alongside the innovators. Andy Reid doesn’t employ stragglers. Matt Nagy packed his staff with young offensive minds. Doug Pederson might just have had the best offensive staff in football when the Eagles won the Super Bowl last season. And Sean McVay just had one former coach hired for a head job. Zac Taylor may be next.
Hiring Joe Philbin to a major offensive position like coordinator doesn’t represent the way the modern NFL works.