If I'm being honest I don't really know how Jeff is any less qualified than someone like Mike McDaniel to be a Head Coach of a football team. There are plenty of ways to skin a carrot.
I would say having played under hall of fame coaches, with hall of fame players, held diplomatic roles within the NFL as a players union rep, etc would perfectly qualify him to be a good head coach.
We don't know anything about his ability to evaluate impartially and make hard decisions- but there is a reason that everyone under the sun seems to respect him so much, a reason he was a hired consultant for us, and a reason why he was Irsay's first call over a number of people that may have come to mind first.
Sure, Jeff has no head coaching experience- and he cant call plays- but who cares? Don't we want our next coach to NOT be the playcaller anyway? Jeff, at the very least, has an exceptional resume to do this job for a guy that literally has no experience doing it. Might as well skip over the redundant college gigs, coordinator or positional gigs if the guy was meant to be a leader in the first place. Fast track the people with the strongest intangibles and watch them flourish.
Just my two cents, and it could be the case with Jeff. He is already better than most (and better than Frank) at handling the media from what I can see. That cannot go understated as a Head Coach, as he is your main ambassador to the media and the poster boy for your team. You could do a lot worse than Jeff here, and he has eyes that could state into a man's soul.
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