Was hoping for this. That should be some fun --will he want to keep Kaep? will he co-exist with Baalke? Just a guess, but I figure with all the retirements the 49ers have some good cap space.
Their roster is terrible. They actually outperformed their Pythagorean W/L by 1.2 wins last year. 29th in offensive NY/A, 30th in defensive NY/A. Blech.
Hiring Chip is probably the only action that raises more questions than it answers.
The standard deviation of NFL teams' wins is 3.12, and the mean is of course 8. You would thus expect a team to have 10 or more wins zscore( 2 / 3.12 ) = ~26% of the time, or 3 times in 12 seasons. So, Coughlin out-performed.
Is the speculation that those teams are interested in McDaniels and Patricia, or that McDaniels and Patricia are interested in them?
This is all great, but the point is he was a head coach for 12 seasons.
Too bad chip is no cousin Larry.Every time I see or hear Baalke, I think of this guy:
How has the NFLPA not thrown a fit?
That's a "point"? I'd call that a "fact", and add that it's irrelevant without context.
Right now!
Belichick would have been fired sooner if not for Brady, Bruschi and Seymour. McCarthy would have been fired sooner if not for Rodgers and Clay Matthews. John Harbaugh... oh whatever, you get my point. If you make an argument that a coach's teams would have sucked were it not for his best players, the logical conclusion of that argument is that all coaches suck. That's not a useful way to evaluate them.
This is not the argument. He was on the hot seat both Superbowl years and won those Superbowls because good Eli showed up and Justin Tuck abused Logan Mankins. He never would have made it to 12 years without two crazy SB runs.
Exactly. You make your own case. He was a good coach. But not an exemplary one.
He won those Superbowls in part because he out-game-planned Bill Belichick. Luck is the residue of design.
If memory serves, that 12th man was Justin Tuck running towards the sideline with his helmet off.
Huh.
According to the Philly Inquirer, the Eagles "waited for the Chiefs to be eliminated from the postseason to bring him to Philadelphia". Here's hoping they know something we don't!
I suck at this prediction thing. Got Chip right and I still think McDamnit goes to the Titans once he's able to. The other four were whiffs tho!
What about going one and done in 05, 06, 08 (with the #1 seed), and missing the playoffs in 09 (after starting 5-0) and 10 (after starting 8-4)? Was the team really prepared for the big games down the stretch?
Hard for me to argue with this. And the Maras agree with you. Not to mention the fact that Coughlin apparently wanted another job this year and couldn't find one (although his age means that any job would be somewhat temporary, perhaps scaring off other teams).
Exactly. I think what was missing before was that "not that good" does not equal "not good". He was a good coach, but certainly not a great one.
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