I think Hank Fraley wouldn’t be the best OC but could be a better HC in a few years. I feel an OC will need a handle on the line but also needs pass calling and scheming skills. He ticks the boxes around leader of men and the ability to influence grit, but the WRs and utility players will soon lose it if the coaching is all about the line. A line coach is a specialist coach. Ken Norton was a great line coach but an OK DC. Transferable skills require play calling and scheming skills. If that work is outsourced to another guy, it would become like how we had a 2 DC combo when Sean Desai got here one season. To become a great OC, you would ideally have to be doing some level of that work in NFL along with some college years of play calling. If I was John, I would look for an experienced OC or someone who can scheme design and counter punch. Then you hire an assistant OC, Oline, Assistant Oline and build your staff around continuity. Since our HC is a defensive guy, we will continue to have a coaching carousel at our offensive side of things. However to find a blue print to load up assistant position coaches and building some continuity is what we should try to do. Otherwise on paper great line coaches don’t translate to OCs, they are better aligned to be HCs by bringing in the gritty mentality and rallying the entire team. When we go after shiny stars based on their successes in other teams but ignore how those teams really became successful, we are just not doing the right thing.
