As we reported last week, Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels’ name once again is surfacing as a potential head-coaching candidate.
This week, it’s emerging in perhaps the last place it ever should: Chicago.
Yes, Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reports that McDaniels could land with the Bears, given that G.M. Phil Emery comes from the Belichick-Pioli tree, like McDaniels.
But here’s the fairly obvious problem with the fairly obvious dot-connecting. Currently under contract to the Bears are the two highest-profile players McDaniels ran out of Denver: Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall.
McDaniels made getting rid of Cutler the first-year coach’s first order of business upon being hired by the Broncos. And McDaniels feuded with Marshall until he was traded after the 2009 season.
In August of this year, Marshall took another shot at McDaniels, claiming that their notorious press-room podium hug after a win against the Patriots was “for show,” and again chiding McDaniels for getting rid of Cutler.
“I don’t know what he was thinking,” Marshall said at the time regarding the decision to trade Cutler. “I know a lot of people on the outside consider that a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very bad move. . . . Did I say ‘very’?”
Thus, hiring McDaniels to coach Cutler and Marshall would also be a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very bad move.
Did I say ‘very’?
And Phil Emery is surely very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very aware of that.
Did I say ‘very’?