Mike Vrabel - Coach of the Year

I think he deserves it but feel like it’ll go to Lafluer

 

No one faced the adversity Vrabel did this season. That should give him the edge in most honest evaluations. However, this is a “cool kids” kind of thing and I believe it will go to someone else, likely Taylor.

 

You know what the packers didn’t have this year? Another team with a super media hype train in the same division.

 

national msm guys just dont want to have to learn about another small market team... quite happy pumping the phonies cause at least they know a little about them


well in about a month all the usual suspects will be good again... like every off season

 

Nah. Vrabel has it. Rodgers will win MVP to supplement GB’s season.

 

Really hope Vrabel doesnt get robbed, but who knows with those voters and how much they followed our team. Also dont think a-aron should win mvp tbh

 

NFL betting: Zac Taylor, Matt LaFleur coach-of-the-year favorites, but why not Mike Vrabel?

Frank Schwab
January 7, 2022, 1:41 pm

The criteria and voting for coach of the year is weird, no matter the sport. More on that in a few.

There are three viable candidates left for NFL coach of the year award, according to BetMGM's odds: Zac Taylor of the Cincinnati Bengals and Matt LaFleur of the Green Bay Packers are co-favorites at +160 odds. Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans is third at +350. Everyone else is at least 30-to-1 odds.

All three have good arguments. But it's a bit odd why Vrabel trails the other two by so much.

A three-man race
Here's the breakdown for all three coaches still in the race:

LaFleur: Dismissing LaFleur because he coaches Aaron Rodgers sums up how bad coach of the year arguments can be. LaFleur is 39-9 and his .813 winning percentage would be best in NFL history for any coach with more than 50 games. The Packers were 13-18-1 in Mike McCarthy's last two seasons, before LaFleur. One of those seasons Rodgers was hurt most of the season, but the last season Rodgers started all 16 games and Green Bay was 6-9-1. Let's not ignore that the Packers didn't have an easy 2021. The Rodgers trade drama dominated headlines. Davante Adams is unhappy too. LaFleur kept the focus on winning. He also dealt with injuries to left tackle David Bakhtiari, cornerback Jaire Alexander and edge rusher Za'Darius Smith, three elite players. And the Packers still have the NFL's best record. You'd think that would matter. LaFleur has done a fantastic job.

Taylor: Taylor's candidacy is another great example of how weird coach of the year voting can be. The reason Taylor is up there isn't because he has the best team like LaFleur, or even the best team in his conference. It's because the Bengals had low preseason expectations. Instead of admitting everyone might have had a bad process in projecting the Bengals to be under .500, it had to be that Taylor did an unbelievable job as coach. It can't be that anyone was wrong before the season, of course. Taylor has done a good job. Joe Burrow has developed nicely. The Bengals are division champs. But it's unclear why he'd be ahead of ...


Vrabel: Vrabel's argument rests on the Titans getting the No. 1 seed, which they clinch with a win Sunday. If that happens, they'd have a better record than Taylor's Bengals. Shouldn't that be the biggest factor? The Titans would have done it despite losing Derrick Henry back on Oct. 31 and often having a skeleton crew of skill-position players when A.J. Brown and Julio Jones also missed time. If we're downgrading LaFleur for having Rodgers, wouldn't we also have to look at Joe Burrow vs. Ryan Tannehill? Nobody is picking Tannehill among those two. The Titans have gone 5-3 without Henry. They have quality wins against the Colts, Bills, Rams, Saints and 49ers. There's only one reason Taylor would get a vote over Vrabel, and that's because the Bengals had lower preseason expectations (which just might have been wrong, obviously) than the Titans. Sure

 

Hes getting a lot of national media love for it. I think he will win it.

Not sure who else would be MVP besides him. Maybe Brady or Kupp.

 

I know brady has his haters, but what he's done at almost 45 years old, is kinda unbelievable

 

I am on board. He should be coach of the year right now. A couple more wins, and it shouldn't even be close.

Now for a slightly less popular opinion. GM of the year. JRob went out and got RB that have been really good when we lost Henry. Picked up Cunningham, and it looks like he really fits our defense (in fact, he may be a key to some elite performances in the playoffs). Built a team that has enough depth to survive, and even thrive even with all the injuries we had. If that is not worthy of GM of the year, what would it take?