I do not understand this argument! I’m a Steelers fan, but I live in the Philly area, and I hear people make this argument on the sports talk stations all the time.
You talk as if they broke the mold when Andy Reid was hired. But who in Philly had ever heard his name before he was? I doubt you could name for me all 32 head coaches in the NFL, so how can you possibly know all the offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators, quarterback coaches, defensive line coaches, offensive line coaches, linebacker coaches, and…you get the idea.
Who in Pittsburgh knew of Mike Tomlin before he was hired? Who in Green Bay knew of McCarthy before he was hired? Who in Baltimore knew of Harbaugh before he was hired?
There are people on the Eagles payroll, getting paid VERY well, whose job it would be to do their due dilligence, and find the right candidate for the head coaching job. Stop acting like Andy Reid is the be all end all of coaches.
What are the odds that the no-name guy will be even half as successful as Reid? You can’t do better than a coach who puts your team in position to win a Super Bowl on a consistent basis, and Reid does that.
13 seasons, no Super Bowl title. 1-4 in Conference Championships, and in 3 of those loses the Eagles were favored.
If you lived in Philly as I do, and you had your fingers on the pulse of this fanbase, you would realize that contending isn’t good enough. Is there a chance that No-Name Coach could be worse? Sure, but at least it would give this fanbase hope. It’s no longer in doubt: this team will never win a championship with Reid at the helm. If anything, Jim Johnson’s (RIP) defense helped this team win in spite of Reid’s shortcomings for all those seasons.
You know what’s funny? If the Redskins had gotten one more FG in regulation in either game with the Cowboys, they’d be just one game out of the division lead, despite their total suckitude.
A lot of people are still afraid of hiring the next Kotite. Or for those who go back far enough, Marion Campbell.
It may not matter since I have been reading that Andy can stay if he fires Castillo. Eskin was reporting that Spagnuolo could be considered for DC if he loses his job in StL.
You emboldened my quote and you still don’t understand? Here, I’ll help, though I know it won’t.
How hard is that to understand? Also, calm down.
Won’t mean anything, but I can name everyone but whoever replaced Jack Del Rio. So, yeah, only 31. And no, I don’t know all their coordinators.
Andy Reid is not the end all be all, no. You’re right about that. But he has been wildly successful. And there’s a very critical difference between this Eagles team (sans Reid, assuming) and those other teams you mentioned. Most, with perhaps the exception of the Steelers and Tomlin, weren’t ready to win right away. The Eagles have the pieces on the field to contend immediately. So there’s some pressure to win right away and generally young coaches on their way up don’t do that in their first head coaching job. So the pressure is to find someone established.
But who is established and can potentially win right away who also has the chops to manage the roster the way Andy has (or hasn’t, it could be argued) for the future. I don’t actually know. But this is a very critical time for the Eagles, and Eagles fans have been spoiled with yearly success. I’m not sure if the fan base wants three years or so of losing to rebuild. Some say they do, but people talk, you know?
As a Dallas fan, it’s pretty bad when the Cowboys build a 12 point lead in the 4th quarter and I can confidently say to myself with about 5 minutes left in the game, “I betcha they’re going to blow it and lose.”
In terms of coaching, sure I can. The only reason coaches who are successful in the regular season are unsuccessful in the playoffs, other than luck, except in a very few cases (such as Dungy’s habit of shutting his starters down once the Colts locked down their seed).
Ha ha. I was saying the exact same thing. This year my Cowboys have had *way *too many come-from-ahead losses. Plus, this weekend I have to root for the Redskins which makes me want to hurl.
Here’s the greatest stat I’ve ever heard (little late on it–it was posted on Twitter and probably elsewhere earlier this week and I just got around to reposting)
As coach of the Cowboys, Jason Garrett has a 12-9 record. Of those 9 losses, Dallas has held a lead in the 4th quarter in eight. The only one in which the Cowboys did not blow a 4th quarter lead was the 34-7 beatdown the Eagles laid on them this season.
My goodness. And I thought the Eagles were bad in the 4th quarter.
So Garret has coached the team to a fourth quarter lead in 20 of 21 games? That’s pretty impressive. Ending up with a 12-9 record from that, not so much.