ChyrenB Wrote:
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> Crowder52 Wrote:
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> > Harbaugh I would imagine has the best record of
> > any 2nd year coach in the history of the NFL.
> You
> > can take shots at his play calling but that
> same
> > play calling has him 24-7 in 2 years...
> Philbin
> > lost 9 games in just his first year... So I
> think
> > knocking his play calling and pistol formation
> is
> > utterly ridiculous...He was also one play away
> > from coaching and play calling one of the
> greatest
> > comebacks in the history of the Superbowl...
>
> RESPONSE: But that's our problem. It has been
> our problem since Shula left. We have settled for
> flawed people. People who are less than 100%. We
> need to refuse to settle for anything but 100%.
>
> To me, I'd rather have a Philbin who takes a
> devastated team and takes it to a 7-9 record the
> first year, a 10-6 record perhaps the second year,
> go 12-4 the third year and get into the SuperBowl
> and don't blow it by changing what he GOT HIM
> THERE and ALMOST GET BLOWN OUT AND ONLY BE SAVED
> FROM IT BY A LIGHT FAILURE then decide to go back
> to what got him there, catch up, and then come
> within SEVEN YARDS OF VICTORY and CALL THREE OF
> THE DUMBEST PLAYS IN FOOTBALL HISTORY.
>
> Yeah, I'd rather NOT take a Jim Harbaugh, Crowder.


Chyren he took a 6-10 team and went 13-3 and then 12-4... How do you know Philbin is 100 percent, I surely do not. And this year you pointed out many flaws in his game planning and calls... At the end of the day I want to win...I would take 13 wins and 12 wins with multiple play off wins in the last 2 years no matter who was coaching... We can only hope Philbin can lead us to that kind of victory with the team.. Harbaugh has already done it... Even if Philbin goes undefeated next year, he will still have more losses in his first 2 years then Harbaugh... That is pretty impressive and hard to brush off IMO..

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captkoi Wrote:
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> It's a "what have you done for me lately" league.
>
>
> Harbaugh's contract won't be up for quite some
> time. If by that time his teams have done little
> to nothing (which I don't forsee) then I highly
> doubt he would be that highly coveted. If he
> continued to get his teams to the playoffs/Super
> Bowl, then not only would Miami be in the running
> for him, but so would half the league.
>
> Rex Ryan hasn't shown much since those couple of
> championships, plus he has also admitted to losing
> the team a couple of seasons ago. That's not a
> good record for a HC (who happens to also be an
> asshole).
>
> But, in reality, I don't consider Ryan to be an
> asshole; I just see him as a blowhard.


I don't think Ryan could sniff Harbaugh's jock as a head coach.

Rex is an elite defensive mind, but the reason he lost the team is the same reason his father was a failure as a head coach...he doesn't know squat about offense and completely ignores that part of the team.

I get your comparison of guys who have had success right out of the gate, but that's where it ends for me.

Ryan is a clown and a terrible head coach...just like his dad.

Harbaugh is an asshole, and a fabulous head coach...much like Bill Belechick.

Perhaps Harbaugh falls apart after this early success, but I don't see it.

Crowder you are right to point out that I criticized Philbin over strategy and now are preferring him to Harbaugh when Philbin so far has taken us nowhwere yet and Harbaugh has taken his team to the Superbowl.

Why?

It's in my makeup DNA when it comes to my opinion of what is coaching.

My ideal coach was not a football coach. He was a basketball coach.

He played basketball for Purdue. My table at the student union had a picture of him on the wall where the table I sat at.

He played for us from about 1928 to 1932, when we won the National Championship with him leading the team.

His name was John Wooden.

Jim Harbaugh violated John Wooden's chief rule of coaching.

That was enunciated when Lew Alcindor was playing and the Bruins were running a certain play that was absolutely devastating the opponent.

The halftime score was a rout.

In the locker room at halftime, Alcindor spoke up and said, "What are we gonna do different in the second half, coach? They are bound to figure out that play."

Wooden walked right up to him and said, "And when they figure it out, we'll do something different. But we're gonna keep running it, running it and running it until judgement day UNTIL they show they can stop it."

Harbaugh's a fool. His team got him there. and he Blew it.

I'd be fine with Harbaugh. He is one of the best young coaches in the NFL.

On that last series, the first run play went OK.

The next passing play (second down) was a run-option that was poorly executed by Kapernick. If Kapernick would have reversed his field he would have scored easily, the entire Ravens D was in the right corner of the end zone, and the entire SF offense was behind them to block. Instead Kapernick forced the throw into coverage.

On the third play, third and goal from the 6th, you have to throw. I think the play call was good, but once again a bad throw.

Finally, on the last play Kapernick audibled into a horrible pass.

I think the only thing the coaching staff could have done differently would have been to stick with Gore and Walker. But that second down play would have been a TD had Kapernick not had his head up his butt.

SF was flat most of the game, that is why they lost. The SF players just didn't play well. Not a reflection on the coach.

Still glad SF lost.

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