This is why we need to find a way to keep him around. Obviously, I’m not suggesting that we fire McCarthy and make Moore the head coach, but his play designs are brilliant, and they bring the best out of Dak. Keeping them paired together should be the #1 priority this offseason.
Agreed that it should be a priority but I'm still not especially concerned.
If you look around the league there won't be more than a handful of openings unless a few 1st year guys get fired. The only teams really in the conversation are NYG/PHI/MIN/CHI/JAX, I'd be shocked if anybody else was fired out of those 5, and out of those 5 you have to think at least one or two of them will have a decent enough season and keep their coaches (i.e. Vikings, Bears, Eagles). Or someone like Judge might get another shot given that he had a somewhat promising first year and is now down a bunch of injured guys.
So we might have like 3-4 openings at most, and ultimately I think OC's like Leftwich and Daboll in Buffalo will get HC jobs before Moore. Then you have a few other hotshot young guys similar to Moore in the Carolina OC and O'Connell in LA, not to mention a seasoned vet who has a Super Bowl on his resume in Pederson out there who a team like Jacksonville would probably love after the 3 ring circus that is Urban Meyer.
So all in all, I think there's only a 50/50 chance at best that he leaves, and given that Jerry already got him to turn down a HC job at Boise St., which almost certainly is one of his dream jobs, then I think it's more likely than not that he's back.
