Mike Smith Coach of the Year. - Page 2

BlindSite · 01-04-2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by SeanTaylorRIP

I think John Harbaugh who got zero votes and is never even discussed when talking about first year coaching success, will prove why he deserves some recognition.

QFE the Ravens have played some excellent football this year.

Harbaugh wouldn't have been my choice to win it, but he's done a damn good job.

sweetness34 · 01-04-2009, 06:59 PM

The curse of the COTY award...both Smith and TS lost today.

Menardo75 · 01-04-2009, 07:22 PM

I really think him and Sporano should have shared it.

Smokey Joe · 01-05-2009, 09:37 PM

How did Sporano not win it?

RAVENS/WIZARDS/ORIOLES · 01-05-2009, 09:44 PM

the dolphins gained more than pennington. they got brown back williams been playing well joey porter played to his potential ive heard a couple people not specifically from this thread but others to that pennington is the reason there winning. im thinking yea pennington helped but to me the reason is ronnie the running game and the def oh and dont let me forget the coaches they did well this year

GB12 · 01-05-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by RAVENS/WIZARDS/ORIOLES

the dolphins gained more than pennington. they got brown back williams been playing well joey porter played to his potential ive heard a couple people not specifically from this thread but others to that pennington is the reason there winning. im thinking yea pennington helped but to me the reason is ronnie the running game and the def oh and dont let me forget the coaches they did well this year

Atlanta got Michael Turner and Matt Ryan.

RAVENS/WIZARDS/ORIOLES · 01-05-2009, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by GB12

Atlanta got Michael Turner and Matt Ryan.

oh im not saying anything about the falcons just dont like people giving pennington all the credit for the dolphins season

CC.SD · 01-05-2009, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetness34

The curse of the COTY award...both Smith and TS lost today.

It's just this year, MVP and Comeback Player are out with the bathwater too.

Xonraider · 01-05-2009, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Menardo75

I really think him and Sporano should have shared it.

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Originally Posted by Smokey Joe

How did Sporano not win it?

Who is that???

giantsfan · 01-05-2009, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by GB12

What are you talking about? They have everything to do with it. Mike Smith won coach of the year with a 10-6 team. Why? Because they were predicted to be one of the worst teams in the league. Tom Coughlin took his team to a 12-4 record and #1 seed but got nothing. Why? Because the Giants were predicted to be good.

Preseason predictions may be the most important factor in determining coach of the year.

Wait a second, we were predicted to be good?

On the topic at hand though Sure there are coaches who have proven more and shown that they're at the top of the NFL, but COY is an award based on how much a coach improves his team in a given year and Mike Smith, Tony Sparano and Jim Harbaugh all did incredible jobs improving their teams in one season, sure I'd rather take Belicheck if I was starting a franchise, but what those guys accomplished with their teams was more impressive, thus Smith and Sparano got the nods over belly.

CashmoneyDrew · 01-05-2009, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by GB12

Atlanta got Michael Turner and Matt Ryan.

Exactly. Smith got a rookie QB and a RB who'd never carried a full load before. That makes his job slightly more impressive to me and IMO the right choice for the award.

GB12 · 01-05-2009, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by giantsfan

Wait a second, we were predicted to be good?

What was your point in that smart ass comment?

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On the topic at hand though Sure there are coaches who have proven more and shown that they're at the top of the NFL, but COY is an award based on how much a coach improves his team in a given year and Mike Smith, Tony Sparano and Jim Harbaugh all did incredible jobs improving their teams in one season, sure I'd rather take Belicheck if I was starting a franchise, but what those guys accomplished with their teams was more impressive, thus Smith and Sparano got the nods over belly.

That's pretty much what I said.

RAVENS/WIZARDS/ORIOLES · 01-05-2009, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by VoodooMonkey

Exactly. Smith got a rookie QB and a RB who'd never carried a full load before. That makes his job slightly more impressive to me and IMO the right choice for the award.

i second that if you dont mind lol

giantsfan · 01-06-2009, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by GB12

What was your point in that smart ass comment?

Just gloating...and trying to correct some revisionistic history on your part. A lot of people on here and in the media thought we wouldn't even make the playoffs and were battling to stay out of the NFC East cellar this season. Then Osi went down and it became a lock that we would suck, but here we are, the NFC's top seed.

bigbluedefense · 01-06-2009, 08:23 AM

Bill Bellichick's name doesn't get thrown around nearly enough. He did arguably the best job of the bunch this year.

Id give it to Bellichick or Sparano.

bigbluedefense · 01-06-2009, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by njx9

still don't see any reasonable argument for belichick that doesn't involve ignoring that 99.9% of his roster was the same or better than last year and that his team did substantially worse and missed the playoffs, to sparano's massively improved team. taking a dog crap team from 1-15 to the playoffs is substantially more impressive (and shows better coaching) than taking a 16-0 team to 11-5 and out of the playoffs. period.

the defense lost Asante Samuel, along with 5 players to IR. (i believe it was 5).

Their offense lost Brady, and the rest of their aging team got 1 year older. The oline lost a step, the defense lost several steps, and they played a qb who never started a game since high school all year.

And they went 11-5. Every other team in the league would quit on the season. Bellichick had his boys ready to play every week.

Yes, the offense still comprised of incredible talent, but that defense outside of the dline is terrible, and the oline isn't what it used to be. Considering the circumstances, I think he did an incredible job.

This Patriots team was not the same team as last year. And towards the end of the season, they were playing better ball than the Dolphins were.

bigbluedefense · 01-06-2009, 08:36 AM

to sum up my thoughts, if you put a gun to my head, Im voting for Sparano.

but Bill should get more love in the process.

bigbluedefense · 01-06-2009, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by njx9

and their defense was proportionally worse, (4/4 in scoring and yards last year to 7/9 this year).

i don't see how you can quantify their o-line losing a step. matt light was in his eighth season (30), logan mankins was in his 4th season (26), dan koppen was in his 6th season (29), stephen neal was in his 7th season (31), and nick kaczur was in his 4th season (29). yet you want to make it out like the entire line is 35+ and broken down??? 60% of them are under 30! come on.

and yes, they played a quarterback who hadn't played since high school. who was playing all-pro football by the end of the year. does one deserve coach of the year for doing a good job with a quarterback? it's not a stretch to suggest that sparano did a better job with pennington, who was actually in talks as a potential MVP, in spite of never having come anywhere near the award previously in his career.

every other team would've quit? with 10/11 parts of the best offense ever? with a great defense, in spite of losing an overrated corner?

does that mean shanahan is your second coach of the year? i mean, he took a team with no interior offensive line, no defense and 47 running backs on IR to 8-8 and just missed the playoffs. it almost seems more impressive.

oh come on. meriweather was fantastic for much of the season. mayo fully deserved DROTY. mike vrabel, as much as i hate him, is thoroughly underrated, in spite of getting older. the rest of their linebackers are still fabulous leaders, which probably doesn't mean much until you have to watch a team without a few of those guys to fire up a team on third and short or other key situations.

BS. the o-line was no worse than it was last year. people just blitzed more because they don't have an irrational fear of the name 'cassel'.

incredible is fair hyperbole, but whatever, opinions are opinions. i don't see how you can possibly suggest that what belichick did with an incredibly talented team was somehow more impressive than what at least two other coaches did with supremely untalented teams.

right, it was just almost exactly identical.

actually, i do believe that Shanny did an incredible job with the parts he had. the reason why he doesn't get any credit is bc of the 2nd half "collapse" if you want to call it that, and the fact that the lack of parts are nobodies fault but his own.

i must admit, after hearing your argument, ive been swayed. you are right.

Halsey · 01-07-2009, 09:36 PM

One coach who deserved to be mention in the CoTY debate that never does is Tom Coughlin. Look at the job he did:

-12-4
-#1 seed in NFC
-Won perhaps the toughest division in the NFL
-Had to overcome Strahan retiring, Umenyiora getting hurt, Plaxico lost for season, Brandon Jacobs missing some time, Lost a couple of important defensive players from previous season to free agency
-Kept team hungry despite winning Super Bowl previous year

He deserved to be in the conversation.