I'm still trying to figure out why McDaniels is interested in Las Vegas. Lukewarm QB, nothing all that special about the roster or the region. If he was willing to stand pat for this long, why all of a sudden the (seemingly) genuine interest in Las Vegas, of all places?
I'm not at all plugged in so I do not know how much of this past offseason/draft was Belichick/Ziegler/Wolf, but losing Ziegler might hurt more than McDaniels, no?
The idea of losing a long-term, well-respected coach doesn't sound good, but candidly I'm not quite sure how to feel about McDaniels. Obviously he's extremely experienced and seems to know the game very well from a technical standpoint, but it really feels like there was a lot of meat left on the bone in terms of personnel utilization this past season. I'm not sure if someone like BoB is quite as heady as McDaniels, but he ran a helluva 2 TE offense in 2011 and had their best personnel on the field most of the time. Given BoB just OC'ed at 'Bama this past season (in what I understand is a similar offense to what Mac ran a year prior), he seems like a natural choice if McDaniels is gone, and I know Chevss has been banging this drum, too.
Can't say I feel good about any of this, but maybe some fresh blood and new eyes at the OC spot won't be a bad thing, if that does indeed end up being the case. As for Ziegler, I'm not sure, but that one might worry me a bit more than McDaniels (unless Wolf is an adequate/superior replacement for Ziegler's role, or Wolf has been doing more of the heavy lifting to begin with).
