Roland, you pride yourself on intellectual honesty, yet somehow you absolutely refuse to consider the obvious signs that what you're saying doesn't track with reality. A commonality between coordinators does not erase several serious differences between the philosophies of each that show on the field.
The commonality is that they weren't good offensive coordinators, outside of Schottenheimer. That's the commonality, and it's fair to blame that on Pete.
The idea, though, that these guys are just random mouthpieces despite:
- Each of them being the primary playcaller
- Each of them preferring their own blocking schemes, which we IMMEDIATELY SWITCHED TO (switched to more power/gap stuff for Schotty, back to zone with Waldron's best friend as the OL coach)
- Each of them having their own unique background that manifested in different run/pass splits, route trees, preferred situational concepts, motion rates, tempo, and screen usage
It doesn't track, man. It doesn't. If you have eyes and refuse to delude yourself, and you presume I don't, then by all means RIP APART those well-established truths in the above bullet points. As you challenged me, go ahead and give it a shot. Otherwise, I'm going to stick to the assertion that the offensive coordinator does have a considerable amount of power over how their units operate, which would be a reasonable assumption to make after 14 years of getting to know this regime.