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Battlelyon
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Top 4 are fine. After that, it gets pretty subjective. McDaniel is a good offensive mind but has been routinely exposed by better teams and coaches. And Sean Payton might just be the most over-rated coach in football. Stefanski would be on there over Payton in my book and I think I would have LaFleur at #5. I'm also not sure why McDermott is not on the list, certainly over Tomlin, McDaniel and Payton.
Yeah, McDermott is a curious omission. If you're going to penalize for not beating the Chiefs, then that applies to a lot of those names.
This.I've ranted about Tomlin plenty of times in many of threads so needless to say he's not the #5th best HC nor would I put him in the top 10.
I don't think he's a bad coach but you can't tell me a guy that hasn't won a playoff game since 2016 is the fifth best coach in the league in the year 2024 because he has mediocre QB play and hasn't had a losing season. Maybe I'm strict but you gotta do better than just be slightly above average to be the 5th best coach in the league.
ih ate Dallas,but if Peyton Is on the list mcargthy should be.
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Jim Harbaugh hasn't won an NFL game in a literal decade.A few snubs.... Stefanski has been coach of the year twice in his 4 years in Cleveland. Taylor has been as good as McDaniel, but he doesn't wear fancy joggers. Ryans only has one season in, but you can already tell he is going to be at the top of the profession. McCarthy has a much better record than anyone wants to talk about.
I forgot about Taylor. He is very under-rated, imo. I wanted to mention Ryans but I need to see if he backs up last season with more success now that Houston isn't going to surprize people that under-estimated them.Like others, I have no issues with the top 4. Seems about right. I don't get McDaniel. Payton has to show that he can do something without Drew Brees as his QB and with a different franchise - I don't really have an opinion on whether it is possible, but I think it should play out before anointing him a top coach. I have similar thoughts about Jim Harbaugh - I think he's a terrific coach and I suspect he'll have success on his second tour in the NFL, but it's been a decade and the league is different. No reason to assume he is top 10 at the moment.
A few snubs.... Stefanski has been coach of the year twice in his 4 years in Cleveland. Taylor has been as good as McDaniel, but he doesn't wear fancy joggers. Ryans only has one season in, but you can already tell he is going to be at the top of the profession. McCarthy has a much better record than anyone wants to talk about.
Taylor has been as good as McDaniel, but he doesn't wear fancy joggers.
Dan Campbell will bite your kneecaps off for talk like this.Taylor is probably the best coach as far as setting a culture goes in the league. I honestly believe Bengals players would bleed for him.
It's his play calling and the inability to set the tone running the ball that has been an issue. Joe Burrow is so great that he nullifies the deficiencies. But it's getting better ( better personal for the system too ).
TBH - It's this side of Campbell that gets him on a list like this while Taylor is not on a list like this. Comparisons between the two coaches are interesting. Both took over bad situations with historically bad franchises. They both have losing lifetime records because of the situations they walked into. Taylor has gone to 2 conference championships and 1 Super Bowl. And he doesn't have the same disasterous loss on his record that Campbell had this winter. This isn't to say I don't like Campbell - I think he's a terrific coach. But, it's curious that he gets all of these kudos and Taylor gets nothing. More than anything, it's the Joe Burrow effect - Any success the Bengals have will be attributed to Burrow.Dan Campbell will bite your kneecaps off for talk like this.
ih ate Dallas,but if Peyton Is on the list mcargthy should be.