Analyzing decisions made by NFL teams is inherently an exercise in asking to be cold takes roasted down the road. Whether it’s preseason picks, week-to-week selections, draft grades or commentary on coaching hires, there’s always going to be some things in this league that don’t go according to plan or that go in the opposite direction of what we expect.
You can try to rank quarterbacks in tiers with a semblance of nuance and the same list will be thrown back in your face for a different year later without the proper context.
Which is a long way of saying, let’s hand out some grades for the coaching hires this offseason! Yup, I’m going to grade all seven coaching hires and I fully expect at least one of them to completely blow up in my face in hilarious fashion within a year.
Look at Dan Quinn in Washington — a hire I liked but one that was treated to some