The Importance To Belichick of QB2

[sb1]

A good NFL coaching resume` ?

Here's his record at Carolina.

Year W L Win %
2002 7 9 43.8
2003 11 5 68.8
2004 7 9 43.8
2005 11 5 68.8
2006 8 8 50
2007 7 9 43.8
2008 12 4 75
2009 8 8 50
2010 2 14 12.5

Total 73 71 50.69


Maybe I'm just overly harsh, but I don't consider hovering around 50% winning percentage over 9 years to be a "good" headcoach. In 9 seasons, he had 4 where his team was under .500, 2 were @ .500, leaving a total of 3 winning seasons out of the 9. Art Shell and Brad Childress both have better career winning percentages.

His overall stats are skewed by the fact that he stood on the sidelines while PFM went out and went 13-3 last year. PFM made Jim Caldwell look like a HoF coach.

Fox is a good defensive coach. He took the Panthers from a laughingstock in 2001 to the 2003 Super Bowl with Jake Delhomme at QB. That has to count for something.

 

[Demosthenes]

Fox is a good defensive coach. He took the Panthers from a laughingstock in 2001 to the 2003 Super Bowl with Jake Delhomme at QB. That has to count for something.

Sure, it counts for a little bit. In my book, it brings him up to "bad coach" level instead of being much further down in "terrible and lousy coach" level

I could be wrong. Maybe the problem was the Front Office or Ownership?

One thing I do know is that he is way too conservative a coach for my tastes. Having Peyton take a knee with 30 seconds left and the game tied ? In Denver, with Matt Prater healthy. Yeah, let's go to overtime where it's a total crapshoot, instead of trying to gain instead of driving 40 yards in 30 seconds with one of the all time great QBs.

 

[sb1]

Sure, it counts for a little bit. In my book, it brings him up to "bad coach" level instead of being much further down in "terrible and lousy coach" level

I could be wrong. Maybe the problem was the Front Office or Ownership?

One thing I do know is that he is way too conservative a coach for my tastes. Having Peyton take a knee with 30 seconds left and the game tied ? In Denver, with Matt Prater healthy. Yeah, let's go to overtime where it's a total crapshoot, instead of trying to gain instead of driving 40 yards in 30 seconds with one of the all time great QBs.

Yeah I'm not gonna try to defend that one. Definitely a head scratcher...