The Most Overrated Coaches In The NFL

[Uncle Rico]

Belichick and Ryan;

Fear and Loathing.

 

[robbomango]

Who overrated Rex Ryan other than himself?

 

[nabwong]

Overrated coach not coaching in the NFL: Bill Cowher.

 

[I.M. Fletcher]

Ryan will read this and think he's in good company and has finally made it.

Belichick will read this and lock himself in his office for the next month and go into full-on F you mode.

See the difference?

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Jeff Fisher should be right up there as well

 

[Uncle Rico]

Overrated coach not coaching in the NFL: Bill Cowher.

Dungy comes to mind in that category.

 

[Deus Irae]

The players have put Tebow in the top 100 players, and have put Tebow in the most overrated players. These polls are fun, but they aren't clear enough to really worry about them.

Also, calling a guy who's been to 5 SBs in 11 years, and who has defensive game plans preserved in the NFL Hall of Fame, "overrated" is possibly the stupidest poll answer we'll ever see, particularly because the same poll has the Patriots as the best organization in football.

 

[ExiledBostonPat]

If they rate you a 20 and you do a 19, then you were overrated. This is what's happened to BB in this poll.

As for Big Mouth Blabbagutz, I definately do NOT overrate him.

 

[Froob]

I couldn't agree with you more. WTF is going in San Diego? That team is way too talented to be underperforming the way they've been the last couple of seasons.

What? Everybody thinks Turner is turrible. It's truly amazing how Turner wasn't fired after last season. Most teams would have fired him after 2010 but I'm not sure there's too many that would of give him a pass after 2011.

 

[patfanken]

Its a bad sampling. When you have a small demographic to begin with (roughly 2000 people) using just 103 actual voters can skew the vote beyond reality. Just 2 or 3 votes can bring someone from obscurity to the front of the line.

The poll was just dumb to begin with, but the fact the mediots will try and make this into a big deal really pisses me off. Felger ruined my ride to the polls by making this and Shaunnessy's diatribe into his main topics of conversation.

 

[fnordcircle]

I love Belichick. I do.

But we've had defensive issues - his forte no less - several of the years of his tenure. 2002, 2011 and 2012 being pretty terrible so far.

When I hear he is a defensive genius I've got to say - I'm not sure that's accurate anymore.

I do, however, think he is unparalleled at running a football organization and coaching in general. But defensive genius? If our defense was playing the way it does of late and was the Jets' defense I'd be laughing at people calling Ryan a genius.

So I guess I do think he is overrated in that one regard.

 

[Salva135]

The problem is that Belichick is also the GM. He has many deficiencies as a GM that have manifested themselves on the field. We trade for WRs and CBs because we can't seem to develop any of our own. He's great at picking OLs, linebackers and tight ends, but he has blind spots.

Belichick, in my opinion, is the best in-game tactician of all time. He has made some bad decisions, but so has everyone. But no one works clock management, field position, and 4-th down strategy better than him. Payton is the second closest in the league.

I think a separation of power is in the best interest of the organization, but it will never happen. Or at the very least, more personnel voices involved. Pioli and Dmitroff (looking more like a genius every week) was a tremendous brain drain on the organization. BB is our Jerry Jones in that he will never relinquish power. Thankfully he's good at it.

 

[sly24]

Andy Reid takes this for me, followed by Jeff Fisher and Rex.

 

[BananaRepublican]

Who overrated Rex Ryan other than himself?

I'll volunteer.

 

[VinnyPatrollie]

The debate in many circles regarding the Pats dynastic run has been who is most responsible for it, Belichick or Brady? Haters often point to BB's Cleveland record as "proof" he's nothing without Tom Terrific. This poll could just be illustrating how players would vote that the player is most responsible for the success and not the coaching.

Personally, I believe it's both.

 

[sly24]

The debate in many circles regarding the Pats dynastic run has been who is most responsible for it, Belichick or Brady? Haters often point to BB's Cleveland record as "proof" he's nothing without Tom Terrific. This poll could just be illustrating how players would vote that the player is most responsible for the success and not the coaching.

Personally, I believe it's both.

You can't win consistantly without a top 10 quarterback even if you're the best coach of all time..

 

[nabwong]

Dungy comes to mind in that category.

Maybe although he did build Tampa from nothing and then Gruden basically won the superbowl with Dungy's team.

 

[Claremonster]

The Texans only started looking good when Wade Phillips joined them...that speaks volumes about how good Kubiak really is.

They're a team who might struggle to hold onto the big names too with the amount of high draft picks they have.

Texans defense is the main reason why they're good now. Foster was a damn good pick up though.

 

[Claremonster]

The debate in many circles regarding the Pats dynastic run has been who is most responsible for it, Belichick or Brady? Haters often point to BB's Cleveland record as "proof" he's nothing without Tom Terrific. This poll could just be illustrating how players would vote that the player is most responsible for the success and not the coaching.

Personally, I believe it's both.

Matt Cassel

 

[Claremonster]

The problem is that Belichick is also the GM. He has many deficiencies as a GM that have manifested themselves on the field. We trade for WRs and CBs because we can't seem to develop any of our own. He's great at picking OLs, linebackers and tight ends, but he has blind spots.

Belichick, in my opinion, is the best in-game tactician of all time. He has made some bad decisions, but so has everyone. But no one works clock management, field position, and 4-th down strategy better than him. Payton is the second closest in the league.

I think a separation of power is in the best interest of the organization, but it will never happen. Or at the very least, more personnel voices involved. Pioli and Dmitroff (looking more like a genius every week) was a tremendous brain drain on the organization. BB is our Jerry Jones in that he will never relinquish power. Thankfully he's good at it.

Pioli is quickly looking like a bad GM. Not a genius.