Why has the Bill Belichick coaching tree produced such imperfect fruit?
This was supposed to be a simple story.After Josh McDaniels was fired last week by the Las Vegas Raiders to end a second disastrous stint as an NFL head coach, the idea was straightforward. Find the answers to the obvious questions that have clouded coaches with backgrounds similar to McDaniels.Essentially, these: Why has all of the success of Bill Belichick not translated to the majority of his former assistant coaches? Or, put more simply, why is Belichick’s coaching tree so bad?Ten men who worked under Belichick have landed full-time head coaching jobs in the NFL. Only two have a career…