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I'm not convinced that being a successful head coach and being a successful position coach are extremely correlated. There are a lot of different skills involved, especially if the position coach is not given much independence by the HC/coordinators.
That said, I agree he was part of the problem and that's part of the reason he needs to win a bunch to earn the job in my opinion. But I wouldn't automatically disqualify him as a head coach just because he didn't succeed as a position group coach under Collins.
It would interesting if one could find how well coaches that go straight from position coach to head coach perform on average. You might not be wrong on the first point, but in a generalized sense Key has always worked on the offensive side of the ball so I think we would really want (maybe need) to see some improvement on that side of the ball (and real above expectation improvement, the defenses we are heading into are mostly weaker than the defenses we've faced). I'm not sure how excited I would be about hiring a coach whose main and possibly only skill is organizing the team unless we bring in some really impressive coordinators.
I would agree performance under Collins shouldn't disqualify them, but I think what I may disagree with is that any amount of winning (except maybe every remaining game) should earn him the job straight up with no serious consideration of other candidates. An equal chance at the job as other candidates? Sure, but even with some wins there will be a lot of unknowns and risks around a Key hire.