Ranking the new NFL coaching hires

[gafin]

3. Adam Gase, Miami Dolphins: A case could be made for Gase ranking ahead of Jackson and Kelly, but his youth (youngest head coach in the league at 37) and relative inexperience render him a bit more of a gamble. The positives? Gase helped guide an aging Peyton Manning to a record-shattering season and the Super Bowl in Denver, he helped Jay Cutler post a career-high quarterback rating (92.3) in Chicago, and he was smart enough to reject the 49ers' offer last year when they reportedly demanded he keep Jim Tomsula as defensive coordinator.

The negatives? Manning is pretty damn good at coaching himself, Cutler's Bears went 6-10 and ranked 23rd in the league in points and, oh yeah, John Elway decided against promoting Gase when he fired John Fox. If nothing else, Gase has a blind belief in his ability to lead. In one of his many job interviews over the past two years, Gase was asked by one executive if he knew his personal record against Dan Quinn, the Seattle defensive coordinator who became the head coach in Atlanta. "It's 0-2," Gase responded, "and I'm going to tell you something right now: He's never going to f---ing beat me again."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...hing-hires-hue-jackson-cleveland-browns-first

 

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Did any of your kids get a hoverboard for Christmas this year? It was THE gift to get this year. The media hyped it up, kids were talking about how amazing it would be to have one. Then Christmas came and went, and the kids that landed the untimate prize realized, it wasn't nearly as good as it was hyped to be.

I fear that media hype after this Christmas coaching search. Hope there's some actual truth behind the hype.

 

[j-off-her-doll]

Curious to see how Kelly does in SF. He and Kaepernick do seem like a good pair.

 

[Daytona Fin]

1. Jackson
2-5 Flip a coin
6. Kelly

 

[fisi]

Did any of your kids get a hoverboard for Christmas this year? It was THE gift to get this year. The media hyped it up, kids were talking about how amazing it would be to have one. Then Christmas came and went, and the kids that landed the untimate prize realized, it wasn't nearly as good as it was hyped to be.

I fear that media hype after this Christmas coaching search. Hope there's some actual truth behind the hype.

I really wished Miami had gone with somebody with a HC experience because thats the only thing that has worked for the team. Your owner wanted "big" name but he settled for the "hottest" name in the market. One can only hope that this work out. The coaching blunders made by Philbin and DC were atrocious, period.

 

[Vaark]

I really wished Miami had gone with somebody with a HC experience because thats the only thing that has worked for the team. Your owner wanted "big" name but he settled for the "hottest" name in the market. One can only hope that this work out. The coaching blunders made by Philbin and DC were atrocious, period.

That Peyton didn't need much coaching is a valid observation; however, it should also be noted that as his grasshopper, Gase surely has benefited by learning from the greatest field general in NFL history.

 

[AEGBRG]

How the in the world do you rank coaching hires when neither of them have even coached ONE single game with their respective teams yet????

 

[nyashfan]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...hing-hires-hue-jackson-cleveland-browns-first

The reference in the article to Gase being aware of his 0-2 record against Quinn is fascinating. I remember one of those two losses clearly - in 2014 the Broncos played at the Seahawks in Week 3. The Seahawks scored a field goal to go up 20-12 with 1:04 remaining. Manning led the Broncos to a TD and game-tying 2 point conversion. Manning never had the ball in OT and the Seahawks won the coin toss and scored a TD on that opening drive to win 26-20.

I know, I know. That was Peyton Manning so Gase deserves no credit for the late game-tying drive. I prefer to give Gase credit for having prepared a set of play-calls that helped to overcome a 0.1% win probability, especially against that defense. I am glad that Gase is still p****d that the Broncos offense never saw the ball in OT to avenge that humiliating Superbowl loss the prior year.

That's exactly the attitude that I love seeing in the Dolphins new head coach - a killer instinct combined with a long memory. And he dropped an f-bomb during an interview, no less? Sounds like Gase may have the acumen of Shula combined with a Campbell-esque brashness.