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Yeah Morris was way more in the mold of a Dan Campbell personality/leadership hire, and that doesn’t always work out. Except Campbell at least has a deep history as an assistant on both sides of the ball and produced as a top Special Teams coach as well when he got his chance. Very similar to John Harbaugh, actually, who was kind of out of nowhere when the Ravens gave him the job as a Secondary coach and former ST’s coach.
So yeah Morris interviews well and is really liked across the league but has definitely had a strange journey where his merit as a position coach and coordinator was never the main factor. Always a huge risk. I agree I wouldn’t want him anywhere near this D, I want someone proven and schematically innovative in recent years.
Aaron Glenn falls into the same category, hate to say. Really rough look for a league that’s actively trying to incentivize diversifying HC candidates, and the guys they DO then hire turn out to be questionably qualified personality hires who were able to win over a hiring committee (no small accomplishment) but then aren’t setup to succeed at all, and end up fired within a year or two.
Part of this that nobody wants to talk about is that a huge percentage of the nepotism that benefits the white developing future coordinators in this league happens on the sexy offensive side of the ball, who are more likely to move up and eventually be young HC candidates (and because nepotism is built on prior relationships, of course most of these guys come from super white coaching trees, hire their buddies and their buddies’ sons and grandsons and nephews as quality control grunts who then are set up to develop over time into position coaches, play callers, etc on the offensive side of the ball which sees more HC hires these days).
So then you get a bunch of Kubiak cousins or whatever seen as being viable candidates, without that much diversity in offensive play callers or play designers across the league. And non-white candidates are more so working their way up the league on the less popular, lower-trajectory defensive side of the ball and have to create reputations as “leaders of men” and win over old white billionaire owners with charisma instead of resume a lot of the time. It’s a lose-lose situation for a lot of these guys, and it starts early in their careers with a ton of high quality entry-level offensive coach positions being taken up by a deep pipeline of nepo babies (who to be fair do often develop into good coaches—but it’s an opportunity thing).
But that’s a post for another board.
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