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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | The following segment is from the off-day debrief on the SB Nation NFL show where we're discussing your favorite team. |
0:08.2 | Subscribe to the SP Nation NFL show to make sure you don't miss conversations like this one. |
0:13.6 | We have power ranked the head coaching hires so far. |
0:17.8 | Before we jump into that, though, I want to lay out three ways that I think that you can make |
0:22.8 | a good head coaching hire, because this is sort of how I evaluated the moves that were made. |
0:27.1 | And I want to see if you agree with that. The first thing that you can do to make a good head |
0:30.9 | coaching hire is to fix your biggest problem. And the classic example I give is John Gruden getting hired by the Buccaneers. |
0:39.5 | The Buccaneers had an awesome defense in 2002. |
0:42.2 | They were incredible, one of the best we've ever seen. |
0:44.5 | They needed somebody to bring the offense together and do just enough to get them over the hump to win a Super Bowl. |
0:50.2 | Enter John Gruden with Brad Johnson, and the Bucs did that. |
0:53.3 | So if you can fix your biggest |
0:54.7 | problem with the head coaching hire, I think that's one way to get that decision right. |
0:59.0 | Okay. What's number two? Number two, accentuate your biggest strength. If you lean into what you do |
1:04.6 | well, I think that's okay. I think it works best with an offensive head coach and a great |
1:09.1 | quarterback like the Chiefs. They have Patrick Mahomes. They have Andy Reid. He's one of the best, most creative play |
1:14.0 | callers. But it also works defensively, I think, with the Seattle Seahawks and Pete Carroll. |
1:18.7 | If you lean into your biggest strength, I can't crush you for that. I think the ideal of a coach |
1:24.9 | is like not having his system enforcing it on a new team, but being adaptable, right? |
1:30.4 | I think that's something we talk about with the best head coaches. |
1:32.6 | Bill Belichick, for example. |
1:33.8 | Like, that's his calling card. |
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