Re: Coach of the Year Award

Fred Burton wrote:
<john.vampatella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3da12430-80b1-43f5-a63c-0d7023eb4305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lots of talk about various excellent candidates, like:

- Tony Dungy (12-2 despite major injuries)
- Jon Gruden (Bucs back in the playoffs)
- Mike McCarthy (GB at 12-2)
- Wade Phillips (Dal at 12-2 as well)
- *** Jauron (Buffalo at 7-7, amazingly)
- Romeo Crennel (Cleveland (!) at 9-5)

But how can any of them come close to Bill Belichick *if* the Pats go
16-0? Lots of coaches have taken bad to mediocre teams and turned
them into playoff teams. NOBODY has ever gotten a team to 16-0 in the
regular season in the history of the NFL. Never. Wouldn't that
automatically constitute the greatest coaching job in league history,
never mind that particular season?

Why is this even a debate?

John

Because there are differing standards.

There's one standard that says "which coach improved his team the most",
which I suppose could be quantified by the team with the most improved
record.

Then there's a similar standard that says "who has done the most with the
least". Version A: not counting injuries. And version B, including injuries.

And then I suppose there's the standard that says "who has built the most
total kick ass team in the league".

To be honest, I wish that the league would simply define a set standard.
I get disgusted with writers who have one standard one year, and a different
one the next, with the end result being nothing more than a hypocritical
farce for simply refusing to vote for a given coach or a given team.


Indeed, the same thing can be said for the MVP as well. People have long
sucked up to Pay-a-ton Manning and how he's so great. And now these
same people are fawning over him saying how he's done so much with so
much less. Well, media morons, Brady had to win his first 3 SB's with
so much less and didn't get any MVP credit from you bozos. But now that
Brady has a receiving corps that's every bit as good, if not better, than the
best group of receivers that Manning had, NOW the standard is doing more
with less????

Frankly, I wish that the NFL would do away with the MVP, and replace it
with 3 awards ... QB of the year, and non-QB offensive player of the year,
and defensive player of the year. Frankly, the MVP almost always goes to
a QB in the NFL today for no other reason than it's almost impossible to
build a great team without a great QB. The position itself pretty much
dictates that a team's QB is its most valuable player for no other reason
than the team's success or failure is directly tied to its QB.


Bah. Enough of this mini-rant.

Merry Christmas!!!


Hell the drunk on the corner could coach your team - sans inappropriately placed cameras.

Where is the doing something with nothing in the equation of BB for 'coach of the year'?

John
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