Jim Caldwell -
I believe Colts finally find out this guy is overrated. I don’t care if you lose your star QB, you cannot be as bad as the Colts were this year and call yourself a good coach. Ask the 2008 New England Patriots, who took Matt Cassell and made a 11-5 team out of it. Comparing Bill Belichick to Jim Caldwell is night and day, but Caldwell has relied on Peyton Manning to win him games. Caldwell is a vanilla coach. He’s not creative and constantly makes poor decisions. Peyton Manning was the offensively genius mind behind the Colts, not Caldwell.
Mike Shanahan -
John Elway and Terrell Davis made this guy look a lot better than he is. His constant bone-head decisions have affected the Redskins of any chance of ever making the playoffs. He decided that Rex Grossman was the leader and QB of the team instead of picking up a lot better QB in the draft. He’s out of the time and era of football as he’s trying to create an offense built upon running the football. A QB in this day and age wins games, something Shanahan obviously doesn’t realize. His game decisions on and off the field are laughable too.
Mike McCarthy -
Just because a team is successful doesn’t mean the coach is good. The Packers are a very talented team and have one of the best QBS in the game right now. Last year their defense was unstoppable and Dom Capers was the one who put all of it together. This year they were playing bend-but-don’t-break style defense while taking the ball away from the opposing team. McCarthy is not a good game manager and has to rely on his player stepping up for him in order to close the game because he chokes under the pressure. Ted Thompson made this Packers team as good as they are, not Mike McCarthy.
Norv Turner -
I don’t know if he counts as overrated, but he still has a job, so somebody is overrating him. I never knew why they picked this guy up. He was never good before SD and now he has taken a SB caliber team and turned them into a team who cannot even make the playoffs. He’s a poor leader, one that cannot keep his team motivated for an entire season. His preparations are awful for the games and he’s always getting out-coached on game day.
Mike Tomlin -
I never seen a QB in this league get as much credit for riding people’s coat-tails. Bill Cowher put this team together. Mike Tomlin just took it over. They’re a very talented team that has a great defensive coach and staff as well. They also have a QB who can extend plays and make the best out of nothing. Tomlin’s game management is absurd; he always makes bone-head decisions on the field. He also has no authority over his team as they’re always making bone-head mistakes, penalized, fined and suspended.
Mike Smith -
Sure he’s great at home, but has he ever put together a good gameplan when it mattered? Last time I check: he’s 0-3 in the playoffs and is constantly getting out-coached in big games. He’ll be remembered for going for it on forth and one in that Saints game, but it goes further than that. He’s been making bad decisions all the time. That one was just more noticeable than the rest.
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