If you got a raise and a promise to succeed Belichick after a certain number of years, and your wife and kids want to stay there, that could be enough. Add to that who would want to work for an Irsay. And he's most likely better off replacing Belichick in a place where he's a known and accepted commodity. When you're Parcells or Belichick, players will put up with your shite. McDaniels' personality and schtick wore thin in Denver very quickly. Same thing could well happen in Indy, especially with Pags being a respected coach there. So it could also be that Indy is dodging a bullet here too. But it really is a shitty thing to do to those 2 coaches Indy already has under contract. Then it'll be interesting to see what NE does in this draft at QB. Do they go after Rudolph if here is there at 31, or maybe Lauletta, White or Falk in the 3rd or 4th?
07, gotta disagree about Luck. He's been in an Eli situation for a few years where he has some good play makers at WR and TE but no OL or running game. You give Luck better protection and a little bit of a running game, and his production would go back up to where he was a few years ago.