For those of you who think Rees is "too inexperienced" for this job, consider this:
- Four years as a college QB, started 30 games
- Five years as a coach/analyst: One year with the Chargers, one with Northwestern, three with ND
That's nine solid years being deeply involved on offense at the college/pro level. If you think he's not qualified to be the OC, you're not saying much for his intellectual capabilities. An article referenced Sean McVay, so I looked it up. He was named Redskins OC after only one more year of coaching experience than Rees has. No, Rees does not lack experience for this job.
And while I'm at it, let's give Brian Kelly some credit here (take note, haters at NDN). I've seen, too often, statements like, "Kelly really runs the offense," "Rees will do Kelly's bidding," and other comments with no basis in known fact. Mike Golic Jr. said Rees didn't take crap from Kelly while he played for him, and Quenton Nelson thinks this is a home run hire. I'm going to give Nelson more credence than guys like Baron and Aragoto, and the NDN clown princes ACross and El Kabong.
So my speculation is that Rees and Lance Taylor, as tky21 said, will put their heads together and come up with some great stuff for 2020. What I'd like to see more of is, like everyone else, a solid running game. It's possible that Chip Long's running schemes sucked, not to mention head-scratching playcalling like insisting on running numerous sweeps with Tony Jones vs. Michigan. It's possible that Jeff Quinn really isn't that good, but again, maybe he was hamstrung by Long's offense somehow. I don't know.
While I will stop short of calling this a home run hire, I'd like to think it's a double with the runner rounding second.