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I agree with both you and Bone. Each circumstance, QB, coach, continuity and system are different. There is no "one size fits all" in regards to sitting or starting a rookie QB.

It's also true that if we have an entirely different staff next year, it would be virtually impossible to try to compare the Mahomes of this year to the Baker of next year, both of their second seasons. It would certainly be above my pay grade to even attempt it.

I think this is correct. Plus, since he is reportedly interviewing last, if Dorsey is blown away by Kitchens over the other candidates, he could hire him outright.

Dorsey played his cards right. He seems smarter than he sounds.

It certainly seems like a possibility. But I have a hard time buying into the thought process that if he feels he has the perfect HC candidate lined up, that he would consider keeping Kitchens as the overriding factor.

I would be more of the mind of him thinking Freddie may just be "the guy" and doesn't want to risk losing him before he interviews him.

I mean I like what I've seen of Campbell, but when you really look at it, other than a short stint as HC of the Dolphins, Freddie has a much longer resume' of NFL coaching experience than Campbell does.

And the fact that they let Campbell leave town without a deal being reached leaves me to believe they felt the need to continue the coaching search.

Except for this year, Freddie's entire coaching career has been in the role of a position coach. Campbell has 3 years as an assistant head coach and 12 games as a head coach. That's 4 years of leadership experience preparing Campbell for the position.

What does an assistant head coach even mean? It seems like a fake title to me.

Added leadership responsibilities most likely. Why would someone make that up?

I'm not saying it's so, but if you had someone you were afraid may leave the team for another lateral position, adding the title along with $$$ may make the difference.

People have fake titles all the time so they can get more money. [/quote]

So, the Saints called him an assistant HC so they could pay him more money? I'm not seeing the logic there. I could see promoting someone to that position to keep them from jumping ship, but he had the AHC title from the time he was hired.

The logic is actually pretty simple. If you believe that another team may offer him an OC position and he may consider a move, you add a title and more $$$ to prevent that. You do know that Freddie Kitchens was the asst. HC of the Browns before the 2018 season began as well?

The added money was to prevent his departure, not just for grins and giggles.