I think this is a good post vis a vis the actual responsibilities a head coach has to handle in the NFL in today's world.
And I think it's also why BB is struggling over the last 4-5 years. He's never had a singular orientation, but he's, IMO, the greatest defensive mind the game has ever seen. He knows how to find players on defense late in drafts, in free agency, he knows how to move them around, he knows how to maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses, he knows what other teams are going to do and how to counter them and if they surprise him, he knows how to adjust to it in the moment. He is a master of game planning, of preparation and execution on the defensive side of the ball and he's much the same on special teams.
I've never really thought of Bill as having an offensive mind, but because he's so gifted as a defensive mind, he's able to sit down with a guy like Brady, who possesses, IMO, the greatest football mind of anyone that's ever worn a helmet and show him what the defense is trying to do, and Brady was able to take that information, along with guys like Weis and McDaniels and succeed from there. Bill also had guys like Pioli and Cesario working personnel, working on scouting, he had Ernie Adams in his ear during games. He had Dante teaching the line how to play. And all of these guys benefited from Bill knowing what opposing defenses were going to do or try to do on a week to week basis. We can joke about their failures after they left here, but even guys like Daboll, and Flores and Crennel. Shit, the two guys that appear to be leading frontrunners to take his job, were also players for him who were field generals for him in Vrabel and Mayo.
He lost all of that, in addition to losing Brady. Now he's become the defensive guru, the offensive guru, the special teams guru, the head of scouting, and on and on and on, and I don't believe he has found guys he can trust or rely upon to do the things he's always been able to delegate and frankly, there isn't enough hours in the day to do it all (and if there were, Bill would probably be the guy to use all of them). He has less coaches than anyone in the NFL for a reason. Dude hasn't even had his newly hired Offensive line coach for most of the season. Now, because BB has been doing this for so damned long, he's probably 10x's more efficient at breaking down film and game planning then most, but it's still not enough time to wear every hat. Then on top of that, he's also the general manager, the only head coach in the NFL wearing that hat too.
It's just too damn much, but there's still so, so much that BB has to offer as a head coach. The question is will he be open to bringing in help, and listening to them and relying on them going forward moreso than he has in the past 4-5 years. I'm willing to see it through, but I don't begrudge folks that aren't.