Originally Posted by
Buff
I honestly believed McDaniels was a step ahead of everyone in the personnel department... And I believed that right up until almost the very end. I didn't really turn on him until I read Mike Silver's piece about how his assistant coaches didn't like him or his management style.
I mean, I questioned the Hillis move, and I wondered about trading for Alphonso Smith, and I didn't really see Dick Quinn's 2nd rd potential... But damnit, I was convinced that McDaniels had access to information that us common folk did not. I was convinced that Bellichick had let him in on a secret winning formula (kind of like the Oakland A's Moneyball in baseball) where they valued personnel differently than most teams.
I really thought he was on the right track right up until the very end when info started to leak out from Dove Valley...