Seahawks coordinator Bradley a long way from Fargo
RENTON, Wash. (AP) -- From Fargo to NFL coordinator, Casey "Gus" Bradley's career has certainly taken the fast track.
Just over three years ago, Bradley was an assistant at Division II North Dakota State. Now he's running the Seattle Seahawks' defense.
Unexpected? Closer to unfathomable.
"Yeah, I suppose so," said the 42-year-old Bradley, the youngest of six children in a family raised on Iowa State football back when it was the coaching cradle for Johnny Majors, Jackie Sherrill and Earle Bruce.
Bradley, who got his nickname from an older brother as a 2-year-old and hasn't gone by Casey since, can sure talk.
Former Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin found that out when he cold-called Bradley after the 2005 season. He was seeking a reference on a colleague of Bradley's at North Dakota State, whom Kiffin was interested in bringing to Tampa Bay. But the more Bradley talked, the more Kiffin became interested instead in this smart, impassioned assistant who had been tucked away for two decades in Fargo and in Durango, Colo., at Fort Lewis College.
Jimmy Burrow, a former player of his when Kiffin was an assistant at Nebraska, was on the NDSU staff with Bradley earlier this decade. So Kiffin called Burrow, now Ohio University's defensive coordinator.
"I think he's better than I am," Burrow told Kiffin.
One interview with former Bucs coach Jon Gruden later, Bradley had talked his way into being a quality control coach for Tampa Bay. The next year, when Joe Barry left for Detroit, Bradley became the Bucs' linebackers coach.
"The more he did things for me, I said, 'Wow!"' Kiffin said Wednesday by cell phone while touring Tennessee to celebrate recruiting. He is now his son Lane's defensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee.
In Tampa, he had Bradley present the run-defense game plans each Wednesday. Defensive backs coach Raheem Morris, now the Bucs' new coach, gave presentations on pass defense.
Most NFL assistants do ho-hum PowerPoint slide shows to diagram plays in these meetings. Bradley's presentation was different.
"He took it to another level. He would show the guy running the ball and then cutting into a hole," Kiffin said, laughing. "You had to be there to see it. Shelton Quarles, Barrett Ruud, Derrick Brooks, they all couldn't believe how good Gus was. When he walked in, he was one of the most popular guys in that building. And he was just a quality control coach! He has such a presence."
Last month, Seahawks coach Jim Mora was assembling a new staff in the days after taking over for Mike Holmgren when Kiffin called. He had worked with Mora years ago in New Orleans and still calls him by his first and middle initials.
"Hey JL, listen to me. I have got a guy here in Tampa that is one of, if not the finest, football coaches I have ever worked with," Mora recalled Kiffin saying. "He's an A-plus. He's a once-in-a-lifetime coach. You need to talk to him. His name's Gus Bradley."
Mora had never heard of him. Yet he brought him in for an interview. It was supposed to be a business-hours meeting. Mora was still thinking New York Jets assistant Dan Quinn may be his next coordinator to fix a unit that finished 30th in league in total defense and last against the pass while Seattle slumped to 4-12 in 2008.
Mora picked up Bradley at his hotel at 8 a.m. He dropped him off at 11 p.m.
Through breakfast, lunch, dinner and a cardio workout together, Mora and Bradley found themselves similarly turbocharged on football and on life. They watched film. They drew X's and O's. They talked personal habits, families, "Tampa Two" pass coverages.
"I spent 15 consecutive hours with Gus," Mora said. "I mean, it was thorough."
After it, Mora made Quinn his defensive line coach and vaulted Bradley to replace John Marshall as defensive coordinator.
"Through the course of the day, I realized, 'Boy, Monte is dead-on. This guy is special.' He's grounded in fundamentals. He's got great energy," Mora said. "He has conviction about what he wants to do, coupled with the flexibility to be open to new ideas."
Added Kiffin: "Mark it down. He will be a head coach in the NFL."
Bradley almost scoffed when asked if it blows his mind to be running an NFL defense three-plus years out of North Dakota State.
"No. My focus is to get this thing back on track and get going in the right direction, which I believe we can," he said, flatly.
"Let's go. We need to get better. I don't think about that."
(c) 2009 SportingNews.com
Taking his turn Tomlin continues Pittsbugh tradition
TAMPA, Fla. -- If you let Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin tell it, he would have been a successful head coach some day anyway.
And listening to Steelers owner Dan Rooney, the rule that requires every team in the league to interview a minority coach before making a hire had nothing to do with Pittsburgh's decision to make Tomlin the third coach hired by the team since 1969.
Still, with Tomlin, 36, becoming the youngest coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl, there is no denying the fitting and gratifying connection between the Tomlin hire and the Rooney Rule, named after the Steelers' owner.
"This is the best example of the Rooney Rule working to its fullest," John Wooten said.
Wooten, who as chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance worked with Rooney and the members of the NFL Committee on Workplace Diversity on getting the Rooney Rule approved in 2002, called it the best of all possible scenarios.
The team and owner who pushed hardest for diversity in the NFL's hiring practices lived their own creed when it was their turn to hire a coach, and they have been rewarded.
Pittsburgh facing the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII makes it even more satisfying to Wooten. Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt and offensive line coach Russ Grimm were already on the Steelers' staff following the retirement of Bill Cowher. But Rooney passed over them in favor of Tomlin, whom he knew nothing about when he started his coaching search. That's the spirit in which the Rooney Rule was intended.
"What if the (Baltimore) Ravens had beaten Pittsburgh in the AFC title game and Ken Whisenhunt is going to the Super Bowl?" Wooten asked. "The people in Pittsburgh are saying you gave away our Super Bowl coach. That's why this is so important. It's a tremendous thing."
You will not hear Rooney or Tomlin echoing similar thoughts. Their presence in the game and impact across the league says it all.
Tomlin is the first minority coach hired after the adoption of the Rooney Rule to reach the Super Bowl, where he has the Steelers on the brink of an NFL-record sixth Super Bowl title. He is the third black coach to reach the Super Bowl, joining Lovie Smith (Chicago) and Tony Dungy (Indianapolis), and is favored to be the second to win it after Dungy.
"The idea was to give an opportunity to African-Americans or other minorities to meet with owners and be interviewed and see what they could do," said Rooney, who was chairman of the diversity committee. "Now we tried other things prior to that. We used to bring (minority coaches) down to our seminar. All coaches could come down, all assistant coaches, and talk to them. I talked to them often. But then we got this idea that we should do more and so we came up with the rule that a team, if they were hiring a new coach, had to interview at least one minority. It's really worked."
Nowhere has it worked more so than in Pittsburgh, where Tomlin had the added pressure of following in the footsteps of Super Bowl championship coaches Chuck Noll and Cowher.
And considering recent hirings of Mike Singletary by the San Francisco 49ers and Raheem Morris by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tomlin's success has gone a long way toward making the Rooney Rule almost obsolete.
Add in the interview processes in Detroit and St. Louis where Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier and Miami Dolphins secondary coach Todd Bowles were among the candidates and it shows that teams are more willing to give opportunities to young minority coaches. No longer are coaches shut out of a process that was formerly about recycling old coaches and the good-old-boy network.
Tomlin refuses to take credit for helping open the door for others. But he knows the Rooney Rule and the success of coaches such as Dungy, who gave him his first NFL job in Tampa Bay in 2001, paved the way for him.
"Sure, it (Rooney Rule) is one of the reasons," Tomlin said. "Anything that brings light to the circumstances and situations in terms of opportunity, it's a factor. On a personal note, I've always had a great deal of belief in my abilities, and I thought that if I continued to work and do good things, that eventually I would get my opportunity -- 'Rooney Rule' or no. But I definitely see the usefulness of such a rule, and if nothing else, it keeps some debatable things in the public light, which is good."
But what is even better is that the Steelers followed a familiar process. Like Noll and Cowher before him, Tomlin was a young, no-nonsense, defensive-minded coach who captured the fancy of the Rooney family.
"Let me say this, Mike Tomlin was not part of the Rooney Rule," Rooney said. "We had already interviewed Ron Rivera, and so that fulfilled the obligation. We went on, had heard about Mike, called him in and talked to him. He was very impressive. We got him back and talked to him on the phone often and he showed that he was going to be a terrific coach, which I think is coming to bear."
Could the true "Rooney Rule" in how to identify and hire the right coach be coming to bear as well?
Noll was 37 when he was hired and led the Steelers to four Super Bowl titles in 22 Hall of Fame years. Cowher was 35 when he was hired and took the Steelers to two Super Bowls, including a title in the 2005 season, in 15 years.
Is it Tomlin's turn in just his second season?
How fitting indeed.
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As Nice as Jerry Rice: How Larry Fitzgerald Stacks Up to the Legendary Wideout
As historically inept as the regular season performances of recent Super Bowl teams have been, the 2008 Arizona Cardinals may just take the cake.
However, one man's performance has lifted the spirits and souls of thousands of fans and hundreds of players, coaches, and staff members. He has elevated an offense which struggled in December and united them together as 11, all with the play of one.
His name is Larry Fitzgerald and his postseason run has been one of the greatest in NFL history.
How does his epic performance stack up against the greatest receivers to ever play the game?
Could his playoff run be the best ever by a wide receiver, as good as Jerry Rice's?
The two actually have a lot in common, in fact so much you could almost say Larry Rice and Jerry Fitzgerald. Here are some of the similarities.
Not The Fastest...
Fitzgerald admitted in a press conference that he isn't the fastest guy on the football field. In fact, the Steelers, Fitzgerald's opponent on Super Bowl Sunday, probably have at least two receivers on their roster who could outrun Fitzgerald in the 40—yard dash.
Without the speed to just "blow by" opposing corners, Fitzgerald has been forced to find different ways to get open. His height, superior leaping ability, crisp route running, and amazingly soft hands have allowed him to do just that.
Utilizing such strengths, Fitzgerald has overcome his lack of pure speed and developed into the biggest deep threat in the game today.
Rice has a similar story.
Although I placed Rice at No. 14 on my list of top 15 fastest players ever ahead of Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Hutson, legend has it that Rice, the NFL player with the most career records, actually ran a 4.8 40-yard dash.
Defensive tackles and maybe even some nose tackles in today's NFL, run 4.8 40-yard dashes! Maybe even you ran a time similar to 4.8 back in high school before you had a 48-inch waistline. Although, probably not.
Regardless of what the combine or urban legends may say about his speed, there has never been a player who got as much separation as Jerry Rice. While Rice may have the strongest claim to the title "greatest football player in NFL history," Larry Fitzgerald may one day take that away.
Elevated Postseason Success
Win or lose on Super Bowl Sunday, Fitzgerald's 2008 postseason run is one that should be remembered for not only the record books but the history books. The Cardinals were called "the pathetic hopeless playoff contender who had no business of even being in the playoffs" by the so-called "pundit" annihilators.
Most people do not understand the significance of Fitzgerald's postseason run. They say to slow down, and that Fitzgerald really isn't the best.
But without Fitzgerald, the Cardinals would have probably been knocked out in the first or second round. Although Fitzgerald's 1431 receiving yards were second in the league this season, and his 12 receiving TDs tied him for first, he has elevated his game even higher in the postseason.
Just like Rice, who in 1988 raised his receiving yard average from 81 yards per game in the regular season to 136 in the postseason, Fitzgerald has averaged 140 YPG in the postseason, compared to 90 during the year.
With at least seven catches, two touchdowns and one first down catch for 25 yards or more, Fitzgerald would surpass Rice's 1988 postseason performance.
The competition is amazing and Larry Fitzgerald has just out-danced Jerry Rice(the greatest football player ever) at the height of his powers when it matters most. If that doesn't secure the best active receiver spot along with his impressive regular season statistics. I don't know what will.
Desire to Win and Improve
A participant in four super bowls with three different quarterbacks, Jerry Rice was never satisfied with himself. Legend has it that he read all of the criticisms of him in the newspapers or on the Internet before every game to fuel his desire to win. Maybe that's why he decided to keep on going after the 49ers let him go. Rice never won a Super Bowl in Oakland, but he at least got there at the age of 39.
Fitzgerald said in a press conference recently that he wants to continue to elevate his play. His says he isn't where he wants to be.
Well I'll tell you one thing Larry Fitzgerald, 99.9 percent of all wide receivers in the history of the game would be happy where you are. The other .1 percent consist of you and Jerry Rice.
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Upstart Eagles bounce defending Super Bowl champs
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Donovan McNabb has gone from the bench to within a whiff of his second Super Bowl in less than two months. And dethroned the reigning Super Bowl champs while he was at it.
McNabb ran for a score and threw for a touchdown Sunday and the Philadelphia Eagles' defence twice held on fourth down in the fourth quarter in a 23-11 victory over the New York Giants, ending their archrival's title defence.
McNabb completed 22-of-40 for 217 yards and two interceptions and David Akers kicked three field goals for the Eagles (11-6-1), who will visit the Arizona Cardinals next Sunday in a rematch of a Thanksgiving night blowout that Philadelphia won, 48-20.
The winner goes to the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida.
The Giants, despite being the No. 1 seed in the NFC, lost for the fourth time in five games to end their season.
New York (12-5) could not get the offense into the end zone during the competitive part of the game for the second straight time against the Eagles, who sent them sputtering in a 20-14 defeat here on December 7. In that game, the Giants scored on a blocked field goal return and did not reach the end zone until the final seconds.
McNabb's 1-yard scoring pass to tight end Brent Celek on the first play of the fourth quarter made it 20-11.
The defense then stopped the Giants just short of midfield twice, with Eli Manning failing on a sneak on 4th-and-1 and Brandon Jacobs unable to break through the line on 4th-and-2 on the ensuing possession.
Akers broke Gary Anderson's NFL postseason record by converting a 17th straight field goal, giving the Eagles a 13-11 advantage midway through the third quarter. He added a 20-yarder later in the fourth quarter that essentially iced it.
Manning was intercepted by Quintin Mikell to thwart New York's last legitimate hope. The Super Bowl MVP finished 15-of-29 for 169 yards and two picks.
The Eagles started the second half with the ball near midfield after Quintin Demps' 46-yard kickoff return, but on the second play from scrimmage, McNabb's pass was batted at the line by linebacker Chase Blackburn, went off the finger tips of right guard Nick Cole and into the hands of defensive tackle Fred Robbins, who lumbered 17 yards to the Philadelphia 33.
It set up John Carney's 36-yard field goal that gave the Giants an 11-10 edge less than two minutes into the half.
Tied for second in the NFL with 50 points scored in the final two minutes of the first half, both teams came through late in the second quarter.
Carney kicked a 34-yard field goal with 1:33 left to give the Giants an 8-7 lead, but McNabb drove the Eagles to the 7 and Akers converted from 25 yards to give the Eagles the lead at the half, 10-8
The Giants got a safety when McNabb, under pressure from Justin Tuck in the end zone, was flagged for intentional grounding, closed the Giants within 7-5 with 12:34 left in the second quarter.
The Giants marched to the Eagles' 28 after the free kick but Carney was wide right against a stiff breeze on a 46-yard field-goal attempt.
Asante Samuel picked off Eli Manning in the first quarter and brought it back 25 yards to the 2, setting up McNabb's 1-yard touchdown run that gave the Eagles a 7-3 lead with 6:05 left in the first quarter.
As a member of the New England Patriots, Samuel allowed a ball to go through his hands that would have secured the Super Bowl against the Giants.
Ahmad Bradshaw exploded for 65 yards on the opening kickoff only to be brought down by Akers, who was holding his hamstring after the tackle. It led to Carney's 22-yard field goal that gave the Giants a 3-0 lead.
The NFC East division rivals met in the playoffs for the second time in three years, with the Eagles winning 23-20 on January 7, 2007. The Giants won the first playoff meetings, in 1981 and 2000.
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Paper-tiger Colts are the Atlanta Braves of NFL
SAN DIEGO -- Another 12-victory season. ... and nothing. Another Peyton Manning MVP season. ... and nothing.
Another Tony Dungy playoff appearance, his record 10th straight. ... and nothing.
Another glorious chance to advance to a Super Bowl, their second in three years, with the New England Patriots out of the way and the AFC unfettered by the existence of a dominant team. ... and nothing.
Let's just say it how it is: The Colts are the ultimate paper tigers. And if you don't like the Atlanta Braves comparison - multiple postseason appearances, one championship - feel free to come up with your own. But how can a franchise be so routinely dominant year after year, and yet be found so routinely lacking when the brightest lights are shining?
Saturday night's 23-17 overtime loss to the short-handed San Diego Chargers was all too typical of the Colts' recent postseason history.
It happens year after year after frustrating and infuriating year. And it's always something. The weather in New England. The officiating in New England. The long layoff before Pittsburgh. The Dwight Freeney injury against San Diego.
It's always something.
And yet teams like last year's Giants march on despite losing Jeremy Shockey, or the Chargers win this game without their top running back.
If it happens once, it's an anomaly. But this happens time and time again. It's a trend, and it's something Jim Irsay and Bill Polian have got to address. The nagging problem this year was that running game, the one Polian kept insisting was just fine, despite ample statistical evidence to the contrary.
It wasn't fine.
It was never fine.
And now the Colts are going on vacation way before a team with this talent, this pedigree, ought to be hitting the links.
These were not just the 8-8 San Diego Chargers. These were the 8-8 Chargers without a reasonable facsimile of LaDainian Tomlinson, who didn't even play in the second half because of a serious groin injury. These were the 8-8 Chargers with Antonio Gates struggling with a high ankle sprain. And yet, there was Gates, maybe the toughest guy on the field, riding Antoine Bethea downfield for a monster first down on San Diego's game-winning drive in overtime.
Last year, the Chargers beat the Colts with backup quarterback Billy Volek, or as we came to call him, Billy Freaking Volek. This year, the Chargers beat the Colts with Mike Scifres, a punter, and a magical elf named Darren Sproles, who merely filled in for Tomlinson and produced 328 all-purpose yards.
And, oh yes, there was the San Diego defense, which held the Colts' underperforming offense in check, as is often the case in the playoffs. For all of Manning's greatness, for all the weapons the Colts have on that side of the football, the fact is, Manning is sub-.500 in the playoffs, along with his head coach. The running game was a cipher. Marvin Harrison was invisible, as he usually is during the playoffs. Still think Harrison is coming back next season?
Predictably, the Colts defense will get pounded this morning and for the rest of the week, and those three defensive penalties on the game-winning drive don't speak well of their discipline down the stretch, but they did force two San Diego turnovers in the end zone on potential game-tying or go-ahead drives.
They played well enough to win.
Bottom line is, when the Colts needed a third-and-short conversion, they couldn't get it. You can't win in the playoffs if you can't run the football.
It's pretty elemental stuff. The Colts couldn't run it. Couldn't run it all season, couldn't run it all night, couldn't run it when one conversion on third-and-2 with 2:30 left in regulation and San Diego out of timeouts could have put this game away.
One and done.
Or, should we say, one and Dungy.
If (when) Tony Dungy decides to retire sometime next week, will there be a great hue and cry for him to come back and give it another shot? As much as this town loves and reveres him and appreciates him for everything he's done on and off the field, isn't it time for a new face, a new voice, something different?
At this point, it's going to be tough selling fans on Jim Caldwell who, at least from a distance, promises to bring more of the same.
Overtime?
Of course it went overtime.
Because they're the Colts and the Chargers. Because they don't know how to play football games that don't end on the final drive, the final play, the final gasp. Because they've developed as good of a rivalry as you will ever see between two teams who aren't in the same division.
It took more than 60 minutes to decide, but the deserving team won.
There's no nice way of saying what has to be said:
Paper tigers.
Folding again.
Copyright 2009 USA TODAY
Is Today the End. . .or the Beginning?
Well, as I suspected, sleep was minimal last night. This game has, obviously, moved to the forefront on the list of biggest games of the Brad Childress era, largely because we still don't know what the Giants are going to do in this one. The more I think about it, the more I think that Tom Coughlin is going to rest a lot of his guys, which would play to Minnesota's advantage.
Really, there's not a hell of a lot that can said about this game that hasn't already been said repeatedly all week long. The Vikings need to win this football game. My score prediction may be crazy, homeristic hope more than anything else, but I'm hoping that it happens. The Vikings CAN win this football game. . .the Giants have certainly not been stellar against the run recently, which is obviously Minnesota's strength. The Vikings need to continue doing their best against the run, regardless of how many of the heads of the Giants' three-headed running back monster see action today, and they need to take advantage of New York's banged-up offensive line to get pressure on Eli Manning, David Carr, or whoever the Giants trot out there at quarterback this afternoon.
Offensively, it's a matter of ball security for the Vikings. Adrian Peterson needs to hold on to the damn football, and Tarvaris Jackson needs to continue making the solid decisions that he's made with the football over the last 2 1/2 games since taking over for Gus Frerotte.
We'll also be doing some scoreboard watching this afternoon, primarily the following games:
Chicago at Houston - Obviously, because the Vikings can clinch the NFC North if the Texans should win this one.
Detroit at Green Bay - Because it would be hilarious as hell if the Lions were to get their first win this year at the Packers' expense.
Oakland at Tampa Bay - Tampa could potentially be a first-round playoff opponent for the Vikings. . .as could Dallas, Chicago, or Philadelphia.
Let's get it done, ladies and gentlemen. . .and keep your eyes out for links to new game threads, since we'll be breaking this one up this week, given the number of comments we got in the last one and the lag that it caused.
SKOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL VIKINGS!!!!
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Some NFL coaches out of their league
NFL coach of the year? That's easy -- the Tennessee Titans' Jeff Fisher has the league's best record, with Kerry Collins at quarterback. Runner-up is the Miami Dolphins' Tony Sparano, who, with Bill Parcells glaring over his shoulder, transformed a 1-15 team in 2007 to a winner in 2008. But what's tougher to determine is the Reverse Coach of the Year, the fellow who doesn't win as much as he should.
Let me quote perennial Reverse Coach of the Year candidate Jim Haslett, currently misguiding the St. Louis Rams on an interim basis: "I'll do anything I can to help these guys be successful. But I can't tackle. I can't take care of the football... I am helpless on the sidelines when it comes to that stuff."
It's an acquired skill, getting less out of your team than you should.
So let's count down the top five to the No. 1 Reverse Coach of the Year:
5. (tie) Mike Holmgren, Seahawks
Before the season, he announced he was retiring after the season; he seemed clear on this. Well, apparently he retired before the season. The Seahawks have played like a team coached by a man halfway to the Moose Lodge. Holmgren hasn't just mailed it in, he's mailed it in COD.
If you know you're quitting after the season, you simply don't concentrate as well. It's like when you're in elementary school: If lunch or recess is coming up, you don't pay as much attention to geography because you're thinking only about getting a Sloppy Joe before they run out of them in the cafeteria or getting onto the jungle gym before Joey Markowitz does.
5. Al Davis, Raiders
Coach, general manager and imperial czar of the Raiders since 1963, Davis had a terrific run through some of the 20th century, but he taken the team to the Super Bowl only once in the last 25 seasons.
Like Fidel Castro, Davis, for better or worse, has held steadfast to his system. And what is this system? A commitment to eccentricity and a lot of broken football lives.
Nobody said it was a good system.
4. Herm Edwards, Chiefs
In 2002, Edwards famously said, "You play to win the game!" Actually, it appears Herm plays to lose the game: He had a losing record as Jets coach over five seasons and now has a losing record as Chiefs coach over three seasons.
This month, Edwards, asked if he is a candidate for the job at San Diego State, said, "I've got a college team right now." Actually, it appears the Chiefs have a college coach right now -- and not a particularly good one. On the other hand, he is quite entertaining.
3. Norv Turner, Chargers
I assume he interviews well.
2. Rod Marinelli, Lions
We'd like to excuse Marinelli's potentially historic futility in Detroit -- after all, he is simply a byproduct of the Matt Millen Front-Office China Syndrome Effect -- but at some point of the calendar year, it behooves the coach of a professional team to win a game against another professional team.
I mean, even if you don't "play to win the game," by accident you're bound to win the game once or twice a year.
And, heck, even Reverse Coach of the Year Emeritus Sam Wyche won 84 out of 191 games.
1. Romeo Crennel, Browns
If you take a team from 10-6 in 2007 to 4-9 in 2008, you are the Reverse Coach of the Year. If you are told repeatedly from preseason to midseason that you cannot win with Derek Anderson as your quarterback and then you keep playing Derek Anderson at quarterback until your whole season is irretrievably ruined, then you are soon-to-be Reverse Ex-Coach of the Year.
(c) 2008 The National Post Company
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