Current NFL Head Coaches: A Poll

Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips

worst

Romeo Crennel

I voted Shanahan but considered Omar Epps and Bill Bel

Herm!!!

you can choose based on skills or on huggability lickability, i don't give a damn.

tomlin. i am sorry if that was an overshare.

voted Andy Reid

worst is Herm Edwards, who I'm lucky enough to get to see "coach" every sunday for my local team. I'd happily take an upgrade to Crennel.

http://www.white-lines.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tomlin.jpg

Tomlin's done really well but I want to see a few more years before I say he's the best; he inherited a great franchise so he should be graded skeptically for a while.

Romeo Crennel wins most huggable by a landslide tho

shanahan vs belichick is what this amounts to if we're talking about non-huggability factors

nah dungy v belichick imo

shanahan's a great football mind, but dungy knows more about team-building

dungy also doesn't get enough credit for being one of the game's true innovators, along the lines of george allen (the first guy to hire a special teams coach) - TD was one of the real pioneers of the cover 2 concepts in pittsburgh w/chuck knoll and bud carson, he's very underrated w/personnel, really built that great bucs team and had a MAJOR hand in a lot of those draft decisions (sapp, brooks), and how he's built that team in indy (with significant contributions from polian obv) has been very similar

belichick's more of a tom landry analogue imo, landry was really hands-on in every phase of the game and basically acted as the defacto defensive, offensive and ST coordinator for those cowboys teams - belichick has a hand in everything in that organization, and he's a very underrated offensive coach

really wanna do a NFL KLASSIK KOACHES thread now - john mckay vs george allen, who's the funniest coach ever??

im all about dungy actually, was a huge bucs fan back in his day & get the cover 2 defense defense - he was my #3. but as a spectator im more offense that defense minded & he owes what he's done on that side of the ball in indy to the players he inherited. belichick + shanahan have a better-rounded strategy, even if they're very different from each other. xp

yeah i will say that as a strategist, shanahan's pretty much unparalleled - even belichick falls a lil short - nobody except maybe gruden (lol) really knows how to twist the knife into opposing defenses like him

buhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck gruden

tho you can make that "players inherited" dig in re: shanahan too (elway!!!!!)

i h8 gruden and dont think much of him as a coach - tho i really gotta admit that last year's TB team impressed the hell outta me, they extracted as much as they could from that talent imo - and i'm never sure what to think of him as a play-caller. i just finished charting the ATL@TB game from this past sunday and it was hellish keeping track of all the motions and unsual personnel placement in his offense, and it's sort of hilarious because he goes through all these manipulations just to repeatedly throw hitches into the flat. it's like he's more into the 'juice' of repeatedly sticking it to an opponent than he is into actually winning.

also the failed-former-quarterback-who-was-way-too-tiny-to-ever-hack-it-in-pro-ball napoleon complex seems to hover over everything he does like tha sword of damocles~

i really despise harbaugh already btw, and i dont even know anything about him - he out-smugs billick even

"he goes through all these manipulations just to repeatedly throw hitches into the flat."

yeah thats exactly why he sucks ass. who wants to watch that shit, really

i mean if you wanna play like that you dont NEED talent, and guess what, on the whole i watch football for the great talents. unless i'm watching ND because i'm biased like that.

but otherwise fuck low-risk 4 yard bullshit

TB's offense can be fun to watch when the run-game gets going - they have a pretty powerful o-line and ernest graham is actually really good

love smash-mouth, hate west-coast

gruden is totally west-coast

did you see any of panthers-bears this past weekend? that was great stuff

lovie smith is a cool dudes btw and deserves a more than decent amount of dungy's credit

yeah but their running game is pure smash mouth, really - hat on a hat, grind it out stuff.

panthers offense has the pace of a glacier but they at least have the personnel for the downhill running game (stewart's a monster, i love the o-line; otah, gross, kalil is amazing) and i think they'll take the division this year, as long as delhomme stays healthy.

lovie's kewl, good guy & good coach - lol @ deserving any of dungy's credit tho

gruden's about as west coast as shanahan is btw

lovie singlehandedly took the rams D from worst by far in the nfl to as good as the bucs in one offseason - and id know cuz i fucking hated the rams & loved the bucs at that time

he might not deserve dungy's credit but he does what dungy did better than dungy

shanahan is smash-mouth west coast tho, i mean the man made terrell davis go from hero to tool because every motherfucker who ran the ball after him did just as well, that shit's not coincidence

Romeo Crennel wins most huggable by a landslide tho

not so fast...

http://blog.pennlive.com/lehighvalley/2007/10/wadephillips.jpg

dude got a raw deal after the Music City Debacle. nice to see him getting to have fun.

ok you could've saved us some time by admitting earlier that you have no idea what smash-mouth football actually is

yeah wade is definately a contender - watching HARD KNOCKS this year, what strikes you the most is how easy it is to see why wade's considered one of the nicest, most liked guys in the league

he was sobbing uncontrollably inbetween training camp cuts!

yeah wade is definately a contender - watching HARD KNOCKS this year, what strikes you the most is how easy it is to see why wade's considered one of the nicest, most liked guys in the league

― cankles, Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:32 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark

which btw is why it bums me out to have to write him off as an overpromoted HC :(

DC, i mean

wow cank

i know what smash-mouth football is & it ain't what gruden runs, which is a total finesse west-coast bill walsh cop-out offense which is boring as fuck

he might not deserve dungy's credit but he does what dungy did better than dungy

Win a super bowl? Have a team that is good at offense?

what the last bears team pre-lovie who had a good offense? what was the last colts team pre-dungy who had a good offense? which bucs team under dungy had an offense that wasnt completely pathetic?

denver's running scheme for a decade+ has been all about angle blocking and rolling up on backside pursuit. it's super effective, but it's not about blowing guys off the ball (n/h). you clearly haven't watched a bucs game in about a year and a half, or you'd know that they have some pretty powerful run-blocking talent on the o-line (joseph, trueblood) and aren't afraid to lean on ernest graham to win games for them. to conclude: you don't know shit about shit and you're wrong about everything.

really wanna do a NFL KLASSIK KOACHES thread now - john mckay vs george allen, who's the funniest coach ever??

HANK STRAM

cank youre not making any kind of real point since 'smash-mouth offense' isn't defined by the size & shape of the o-line but rather you know who carries the ball and where. just because shan's scheme is innovative doesn't mean its goal isnt age-old same-old

sorry if you're fat or something

i'm not talking about the size or shape of the o-line, i'm talking about the style of blocking and the concepts of the scheme. the entire line is the point of attack w/Denver; 'smash mouth' specifically refers to I-form, head-on blocking that gets a hat on a hat so the RB can plow up the middle. it's also not shanahan's scheme, it's alex gibbs'

shanahan is pretty dope, i loved his move at the end of the game this weekend. probably the only coach in the nfl who gets belichick to wake up in a cold sweat.

yeah can we get a jpg of shan doing the go-for-2 with his fingers pointing at his eyes

that will settle this debate i think

I know another way to settle it

lolllllll, i love you dude

Severely underrated, and good: Dick Jauron

i voted for crennel based solely on huggability

Severely underrated, and good: Dick Jauron

― Bill Magill, Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:08 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't know about all that. he seems like a very nice man, though.

had i not impulsively voted for hottest coach, i guess i would have voted belichick. :(

I'm wondering if this "current head NFL coaches" list will still be accurate come 9/25.

I voted for the one with the best threads.

omg horseshoe i really misread what you said and was like OMG WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO HORSESHOE THAT SHE'D SAY THAT

I voted for the one with the best threads.

Again w/ the Belichick? COME ON

"i don't know about all that. he seems like a very nice man, though."

Good coach too-last year's Bills had the best 7-9 season ever, considering what they went through.

HERRRRRRMMMMMM

lolololol Ally please have me killed if i ever say any such thing!

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whaaaaaat

Herm Edwards 1

fuck yeah

Hugging Andy Reid

http://blog.pennlive.com/lvsports/2007/12/andyreidd.jpg

his pupils are freakin me out

seriously, all white people look alike to me.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04Dhffr7usa4A/340x.jpg

i'm white, btw.

haha i get really confused by andy reid + mike holmgren, too.

cmon guys, that's terrible

andy reid is a clown
tom coughlin won a super bowl
norv turner's name is norval

fucking keep up

Maybe some of us are Philadelphia fans?

sure, but why are you voting for andy reid then?

As opposed to another team's coach?

if you were a lions fan, would you support matt millen for best general manager?

haha i get really confused by andy reid + mike holmgren, too.

― horseshoe, Friday, September 26, 2008 1:55 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

This poll's about right. I would have put Shanahan ahead of Dungy, but that's nitpicking.

you are insane

No, I'm right. It's a pretty easy call, actually.

I mean about the poll being right

I would never, ever hug Tony Dungy.

what kind of cruel bastard are you?

i don't think he'd accept a hug from you anyway dude

Let's rebuild the Saints, shall we?

would like to go back in time and change my vote to jim haslett.

wtf Belichick??? You guys are seriously overprivileging results (and I say this as ILX's resident meritocrat).

^^^ looney anti-Pat tune

SANE anti-Pat tune

Rooting for the Patriots increases the chances of prostate cancer, according to a study I just made up.

hey man i am as much a results-dont-justify-the-process dude as anyone but belichick's process is PIMPIN

Linehan can be removed from the list of current coaches. i heard a rumor that his poor showing this poll was cited as a key factor in the decision.

I shouldn't be so hard on Belichick, considering that I like him about a bazillion times more than I like THE BIG TUNA. Still, fuck the Patriots.

choosing Belichick over Parcells = beyond the pale

hi dere meritocrat; Parcells spent all of his time in NE big-upping the chokiest choker of a quarterback who ever choked

Everything associated with Parcells outside of NE is immaterial to thinking that Belichick made for a better NE coach than Parcells, and all of that is immaterial to the substantive portion of my thesis statement, which is "fuck the Patriots".

YESSSSSSSSS

o no u didn't

haha jesus dan your pats hate is transcendent

It's the one constant of my football fandom!

what's the source? just bein surrounded by massholes for so many years?

i don't think he'd accept a hug from you anyway dude

Oh he totally would, I'm very huggable.

But I'd be like nope, tough shit dude.

Reid should have challenged that first touchdown last night.

what's the source? just bein surrounded by massholes for so many years?

It started when I was maybe 7 living in MN! I just remember thinking their mascot sucked and they couldn't play; then, when the Bears blew them out of the water in Superbowl XX, that basically put the firmly in the "lol u suk" bucket and multiple subsequent championships haven't been able to get them out.