We’ve got a quicker-hitting MAQB for this last week before the offseason starts heating up, with the NFL converging on Indianapolis seven days from now …
• Jim Bob Cooter’s career arc provides the perfect example of how fickle coaching stocks can be—and why so many guys feel the need to strike when the iron’s hot.
In 2016, Jim Caldwell promoted the then-32-year-old Cooter, who’d been a close confidant of Peyton Manning’s as a Denver quality-control assistant, to offensive coordinator in Detroit. He did it, in large part, because over the two previous years, Cooter had earned Matthew Stafford’s trust in building the sort of offense that had worked for Manning. And so, everyone figured, it couldn’t be long until Cooter got his shot to be a head coach.
