Grading The NFL Coaching Hires
by Alfie Crow on Jan 28, 2012 11:00 AM EST
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PrintAll of the vacant NFL head coaching hires have been filled with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finalizing a deal with Greg Schiano to be their new head coach. With that being the case, Joel Thorman at SB Nation decided to grade out the new coaching hires. Here's what he had to say for the Jacksonville Jaguars:
6. Mike Mularkey (Jacksonville Jaguars)
I never really understood how the NFL coach hiring process works -- why does (or doesn't) a good offensive coordinator make a good head coach? -- but let's keep things simple with the Mularkey hire in Jacksonville. He just left Atlanta to take this job and Falcons fans at The Falcoholic and SB Nation Atlanta weren't very upset when he left. In fact, some were kinda glad he did.
That's not a good sign, right? That the fans of your coach's former team would've paid his way out of town? It's not proof that this is a bad hire but it does make you raise your eyebrows.
This will be Mularkey's second run as a head coach after his previous stop in Buffalo in 2004 and 2005 (14-18 through two seasons). Grade: 5
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How can u grade head coaches now?
A single game hasnt even been played
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by Thunder64 on Jan 28, 2012 11:03 AM EST via mobile reply actions
you can grade on past performance
and I think the way Atlanta fizzled out in the playoffs and the way his time ended in Buffalo is why his hire has received a lukewarm reaction everywhere in the media but Jacksonville.
I wouldn’t care what folks think. Let’s see it play out. But, as Jaguars fans, it’s assumed that everyone craps on us no matter what.
My main interest is how this master delegator thing is going to work. We have a hell of a staff on paper. Or, rather, we’ve heard of most of these coaches.
Hell, the biggest hire could end up being the new strength and conditioning team.
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How does this guy even write?
How can you grade a hire by the fans of the last team he can from. Of course Falcons fans are happy he left. They haven’t won a Super Bowl after continuously overhyping their team up. He’s not calling the plays anyways which makes the point completely useless. His job isn’t to run the offense. That’s Bratkowski’s job now.
As stated above...
…you can’t grade a coach by fans opinions.
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So we are now to judge coaches by fan reactions? I would rather judge a coach by his entire body of work. He has yet to coach a game here and he’s going to be judged already. Let this man do his job first, then when can criticize him all we want if the team is a loser.
It's also...
interesting that the staffs each of the new coaches assembled weren’t taken into account either. I think the staff Mularkey has put together should raise his grade much higher than a 5. I read the entire article a few days ago and he gave the Rams hiring Jeff Fisher a 8 and the Chiefs hiring Romeo Crenel a 7.5, even after stating that he doesn’t think Crenel will be there for long. After reading that, it was easy to tell that his grading criteria weren’t the best.
This article is a joke
It’s fun to read what other people think, though. I guess he couldn’t compare the coaching staffs considering that some of the other teams aren’t set.
Then he should've waited.
I don’t see how you can grade anything when it’s obvious you don’t have any set criteria to go by when giving the grades.
I can say with 100% certainty Joel didn’t sit down and think “HOW CAN I BASH JAX???”
Know why Jaguars fans get made fun of so much? Because of your reaction. WOE IS JAGUARS FAN!
I agree..
His stuff is usually fair. And I hate to point out the obvious but he did come from a team the many thought had a load of talent and then laid a goose egg in the Playoffs. That is why we are getting the bad press because many teams/people hire coaches on the rise.
Now that being said, we’ll see how he does and then we’ll grade him. I know one thing, if he can’t cut it we are in for a long 3 years.
In many ways there is no way to grade this
I suppose its fair to tab a coordinator who is “on the rise” as someone who will be a successful coach, but there is plenty of evidence of coordinators who failed their first time as a coach and/or were mediocre coordinators who then went on to be considered great coaches. I think you have to learn from you mistakes the first time.
Too many times when you are a successful coordinator, you don’t face as much adversity, and you don’t have to adapt to your situation. I think that’s the definition of a NFL coach, is to be constantly facing and managing adversities and then be able to steer you team back to an even keel.
Belichick and even Coughlin are not the best coordinators, nor do they have the greatest personalities, but both seem to manage all the crazy stuff that goes on with the team and steer them to wins.
I say that with one caveat, you have to have a great QB.
Not a single coach listed has even completed a game with their new teams...
How do you give a grade? On expectations?
Well...
as I said above, he could’ve waited until each of the coaches finished assembling their respective staffs and added that to the equation.
writers have to write articles to fill their website
The net is basically an average bar. You throw a topic and discuss, debate, etc. Everyone has a draft grade immediately after the draft, but the common logic is it takes 3 years to adequately grade a draft.
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I read this the other day
and thought that the grade and even more so the explanation was a complete joke
by Sylvester.The.Jaguar.fan on Jan 28, 2012 2:47 PM EST reply actions
this is interesting
it seems a lot of us read this article the other day, and apparently had the same reaction: ok.
I’ve pretty much come to expect it.
I don’t have the time or interest to investigate 31 other teams. But the articles I read give me encouragement that the men at the top of the Jaguars organization, and as is becoming more apparent, throughout, know the rewards of hard work and dedication and aren’t averse to putting in the effort.
I look at the Jags roster and see a bunch of young to mid-career football players who, if injuries don’t take a similar toll this year, appear to my untrained and biased eye to be pretty good (or at least seem to have the potential to be) and capable of being competitive at most positions.
This off-(oops, out-of-)season will be a major indicator of where the Jags are headed.
I can’t wait to see whom Gene pursues in free agency and who our draft picks will be.
So they can go on hating. I’m on the deck in the back yard with a Boatswain Double I.P.A., and life looks pretty good.
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by unhipcat on Jan 28, 2012 6:37 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Why is everyone so upset?
So if we think mularkey is the best new hire, why can’t this guy think he is the worst? No way to grade this so just let the guy write his opinion
by Slawsc on Jan 29, 2012 3:38 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I don't think they are upset..
Its just annoying and expected at this point
by Sylvester.The.Jaguar.fan on Jan 29, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
What's the scale
he is grading on? What does 5 stand for? Average? Good? Bad? 1- 10? I don’t understand his rating scale.
looked at the article
Scale of 1 – 10. Who really knows till they actually do something in your organization.
by Nolan Sackett on Jan 29, 2012 7:54 AM EST up reply actions
Anyone else not care?
5, 8, 10 out of 10. Who cares. It’s one mans opinion, and doesn’t dictate the outcome of Mularkey’s time in Jacksonville. Carry on………………………..
IIRC, we (jacksonville) were all too happy to have Tom Coughlin out of town.
so i’m nut sure what a knee jerk reaction from a coach’s previous team’s fans has to do with anything.
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