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Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic
And Andy Reid has 3 of the worst NFL playoff losses in NFL history. In those losses he made ridiculously bad play calls and displayed some of the worst time management decisions ever.
Is he a bad coach because of those decisions?
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There's two parts to being a coach.
1. All the shit you do in the offseason and from Monday-Saturday. Makes up 99.99% of the job, and it's the stuff that most fans don't know shit about in determining whether a coach is good or bad. Only thing they've got to make that judgment is a team's preparation, execution, and what they see on the field.
2. Decision-making during the game. This is the part of coaching where everybody and their Madden-playing mothers is a goddamn genius, and it's what people like to think makes a truly great coach. They think some coaches are better at this shit than others, but in most cases (this includes a bunch of Andy Reid's so-called time management losses) the decisions are a ****ing crap shoot.
You can rack up some bad losses attributable to #2 throughout your career and still keep your job. Those aren't the things that make a bad coach bad. Staley completely ****ed away his team's trip to the postseason last year. But the team really likes his #1, so he stays. And I'll bet he even gets an extension in a couple years.
In Hackett's first game as a head coach, he royally ****ed up #2. That much is obvious. And yes, that was the decision that led to a direct loss on the field. It's egregious and horrible because it's the most obvious thing fans can point to, but that's it. They don't see or know how to evaluate part #1.
I'm saying that Hackett's part #1 is also horrible, and it's pretty evident based on how his team played throughout the game. They didn't execute. They had some penalties (and several eye-popping no-call holds). The Donks started slow. They flat-out weren't as prepared as they should have been.