Ranked Coaching Staff

Well I am no fan either. The defense was better last year because he had players that learned how to play from other coaches. Chris Hope, David Thornton, KVB. Most of the defensive players that we have drafted since he was coach have not panned out (except Pacman, who does his own thing). I wonder why that is. This year we have acquired Harper, the CB from Seattle, a safety and LB during the offseason and maybe Simeon Rice. So we will have defense full of people who learned who to play the game from another coach. That was my biggest knock on Schwartz. He didn't have the best talent and i didn't expect a number one rated defense. However, if the other team is constantly running through you, I would expect that you can atleast make a tackle. Forget being outran because the other team is faster and more athletic. They would run right over us. There was no excuse for that.

My contention all along was that a good coach starts with technique. That is what makes a coach like Belicheck successful. You best believe that every defensive player on his roster tackles. So when he losses a cornerback in the AFC championship game you can't tell because the next comes in and does his job. We don't get that from Schwartz and we never will. Our defense will be better this year and we can thank the coaches at Arizona (KVB), Tampa Bay (Rice, hopefully), Indy (Harper, Thornton), Pittsburgh (Hope), Seattle (Herndon) and Dallas (Fowler).

 

The analysts high opinions of Scwartz is a lot like we saw with Kevin Gilbride in the early 90's. Sports writers loved him.

He was billed as an offensive guru & on that reputation he was able to screw up a number of teams before getting the chance to blow it as a head coach. He's never out of work despite an almost perfect losing record every where he's been goes.

 

Because most fans get too emotional and are far too impatient with the teams that they cheer for. And, because of that, they will jump all over a player or coach no matter what the circumstance may be if it doesn't go their way.

 

I rank our staff around 23rd or so. 13th if we boot schwartz.

 

Good God-this cat must live in the clouds if 32nd out of 32 is chicken soup.

 

I thought the 'he likes to blitz' part was funniest. He likes to blitz...2 times a game. If it works he'll only blitz once the next game.