Current NFL Head Coaches: A Poll

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

Poll Results

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Andy Reid 5
Bill Belichick 5
Tony Dungy 4
Wade Phillips 2
Mike Tomlin 2
Mike Shanahan 2
Romeo Crennel 1
Herm Edwards 1
Sean Payton 1
Jack Del Rio 1
Eric Mangini 0
Marvin Lewis 0
John Fox 0
Jon Gruden 0
John Harbaugh 0
Ken Whisenhunt 0
Rod Marinelli 0
Mike Smith 0
Mike Holmgren 0
Norv Turner 0
Mike Nolan 0
Lane Kiffin 0
Tony Sparano 0
Jim Zorn 0
Brad Childress 0
Scott Linehan 0
Tom Coughlin 0
Dick Jauron 0
Mike McCarthy 0
Jeff Fisher 0
Lovie Smith 0
Gary Kubiak 0


omar little, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips

ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

worst

Romeo Crennel

ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

I voted Shanahan but considered Omar Epps and Bill Bel

polyphonic, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

Herm!!!

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

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.

horseshoe, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:19 (seventeen years ago)

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.

it's a great breakup balllad sung by Bill Champlin (Euler), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

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

leavethecapital, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

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.

it's a great breakup balllad sung by Bill Champlin (Euler), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

Romeo Crennel wins most huggable by a landslide tho

cankles, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

nah dungy v belichick imo

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:10 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:15 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

buhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck gruden

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

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.

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:22 (seventeen years ago)

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~

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

"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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:42 (seventeen years ago)

gruden's about as west coast as shanahan is btw

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 00:55 (seventeen years ago)

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.

rogermexico., Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

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, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

he was sobbing uncontrollably inbetween training camp cuts!

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:32 (seventeen years ago)

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 :(

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

DC, i mean

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

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?

polyphonic, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

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?

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:45 (seventeen years ago)

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.

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

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

HANK STRAM

David R., Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:54 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:57 (seventeen years ago)

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'

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

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.

omar little, Thursday, 18 September 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

that will settle this debate i think

no (stunzeed) LZD (deeznuts), Thursday, 18 September 2008 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

I know another way to settle it

TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 September 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

lolllllll, i love you dude

cankles, Thursday, 18 September 2008 11:52 (seventeen years ago)

Severely underrated, and good: Dick Jauron

Bill Magill, Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

i voted for crennel based solely on huggability

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:18 (seventeen years ago)

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.

horseshoe, Thursday, 18 September 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

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

horseshoe, Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

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

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

I voted for the one with the best threads.

Again w/ the Belichick? COME ON

David R., Thursday, 18 September 2008 20:17 (seventeen years ago)

"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.

Bill Magill, Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

HERRRRRRMMMMMM

TOMBOT, Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

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

horseshoe, Thursday, 18 September 2008 22:34 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

whaaaaaat

El Tomboto, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:09 (seventeen years ago)

Herm Edwards 1

fuck yeah

the missing boy (Euler), Friday, 26 September 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

Hugging Andy Reid

rogermexico., Friday, 26 September 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

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

omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

his pupils are freakin me out

johnny crunch, Friday, 26 September 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

seriously, all white people look alike to me.

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

☑ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 26 September 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

i'm white, btw.

☑ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 26 September 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

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

horseshoe, Friday, 26 September 2008 05:55 (seventeen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 06:10 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe some of us are Philadelphia fans?

Mordy, Friday, 26 September 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

As opposed to another team's coach?

Mordy, Friday, 26 September 2008 06:21 (seventeen years ago)

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

mookieproof, Friday, 26 September 2008 06:51 (seventeen years ago)

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

^^

cankles, Friday, 26 September 2008 09:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

Bill Magill, Friday, 26 September 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

you are insane

El Tomboto, Friday, 26 September 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

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

Bill Magill, Saturday, 27 September 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

I mean about the poll being right

El Tomboto, Saturday, 27 September 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

I would never, ever hug Tony Dungy.

polyphonic, Saturday, 27 September 2008 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

what kind of cruel bastard are you?

the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Saturday, 27 September 2008 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

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

you have been yellow carded by an actual referee (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 September 2008 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

Let's rebuild the Saints, shall we?

forksclovetofu, Monday, 29 September 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

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

adam, Monday, 29 September 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

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

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ looney anti-Pat tune

David R., Monday, 29 September 2008 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

SANE anti-Pat tune

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

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

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Monday, 29 September 2008 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 29 September 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

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.

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

choosing Belichick over Parcells = beyond the pale

David R., Monday, 29 September 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

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".

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

YESSSSSSSSS

David R., Monday, 29 September 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

o no u didn't

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

haha jesus dan your pats hate is transcendent

cankles, Monday, 29 September 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

It's the one constant of my football fandom!

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)

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

cankles, Monday, 29 September 2008 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

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.

polyphonic, Monday, 29 September 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

Reid should have challenged that first touchdown last night.

Bill Magill, Monday, 29 September 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

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.

i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 29 September 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)


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