psubills62
01-09-2010, 09:55 PM
Saw it in my ESPN magazine and I thought it could easily apply to us. To summarize (especially for those who don't have ESPN Insider, or the time to read it), the article discusses how to try and pinpoint which coordinators or assistants will make great head coaches. They looked at a lot of elite head coaches (Belicheck, Parcells, Levy, etc.), and found some qualifications that make it likely a coach will be successful:
1. They were between ages 41 and 49.
2. They had at least 11 years of NFL coaching experience.
3. They were assistants on teams that won at least 50 games over a five-year span.
4. They had only one previous NFL head-coaching gig.
The guy that they focused the article on who fulfills all of these requirements is Marty Morninwheg, current OC for the Eagles. I don't know much about his history with the Lions as HC, but I do know that the Eagles' offense (while sucking against Dallas), broke their offensive scoring record as a franchise two years in a row now. That seems to be a fairly impressive offense.
Sorry if this was already posted. If I get bored tomorrow (not too likely), then I may try to post some important quotes from the article.
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=4797666
One of the interesting quotes:
Good coordinators, it turns out, don't always make great coaches.
...Before his next search began, [Philly exec Joe] Banner analyzed 16 "elite" coaches who had appeared in at least two Super Bowls. He was startled to learn that many of the NFL's greats -- Bill Parcells, for instance -- weren't coordinators for a long or particularly successful period of time. And seven elites -- Chuck Noll, Jimmy Johnson and Marv Levy among them -- hadn't been NFL coordinators at all.
FYI, the article is mainly based off of an NYU study of elite head coaches.
1. They were between ages 41 and 49.
2. They had at least 11 years of NFL coaching experience.
3. They were assistants on teams that won at least 50 games over a five-year span.
4. They had only one previous NFL head-coaching gig.
The guy that they focused the article on who fulfills all of these requirements is Marty Morninwheg, current OC for the Eagles. I don't know much about his history with the Lions as HC, but I do know that the Eagles' offense (while sucking against Dallas), broke their offensive scoring record as a franchise two years in a row now. That seems to be a fairly impressive offense.
Sorry if this was already posted. If I get bored tomorrow (not too likely), then I may try to post some important quotes from the article.
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/news/story?id=4797666
One of the interesting quotes:
Good coordinators, it turns out, don't always make great coaches.
...Before his next search began, [Philly exec Joe] Banner analyzed 16 "elite" coaches who had appeared in at least two Super Bowls. He was startled to learn that many of the NFL's greats -- Bill Parcells, for instance -- weren't coordinators for a long or particularly successful period of time. And seven elites -- Chuck Noll, Jimmy Johnson and Marv Levy among them -- hadn't been NFL coordinators at all.
FYI, the article is mainly based off of an NYU study of elite head coaches.