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Rebuilding Eric Washington's image

Mr. Scot

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Mr. Scot

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9 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm fine with giving him credit. He's a very good DL coach. He was just straight trash as a DC.

Still officially titled as such even though he's not doing the job (that's not terribly unusual in the NFL).

Gantt said last year that Rivera was going to try to ease him back into that job at some point. Don't know that this is a step in that direction (probably not) but it's something I keep in the back of my mind.

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Eric Washington has LONG been a great DL coach.  He just wasn't cut out to be a DC.  The problem is that being a great DL coach may be all he's ever cut out to be.  If *he* can accept that, he can have a long and illustrious career.  Maybe it was just too soon.  Very possible, but it definitely falls on Ron to stop the bleeding faster.  I get it, he wanted to give him a chance.  Perhaps PRESEASON for a few years might have been a better opportunity to give him a chance to grow into the play calling role.

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If the defense continues to play this well someone will give him a shot at HC soon. The rest of the league loves to zero in on people's success in Carolina on paper and ignore the context behind it. He'll get all credit whether deserved or not just like Chud and McDermott did.

That said, the guy might end up a decent head coach if he can delegate playcalling to coordinators.

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1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

A lot of people thought he'd follow the previous pattern and be a head coach by now. His demotion probably puts a kink in that.

Is it possible though? Managing a game isn't exactly the same scale as play calling.

It’s interesting that Wilks got his HC opportunity so quickly, I didn’t think he was a great play called in his one year. McD was much much better.

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