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4 years ago

Packers head coach Matt LaFleur should be in the running for the Coach of the Year award. This time of year, conversations among fans include the race for the NFL MVP, the Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, and also who should be voted the Coach of the Year. However, one name not being

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Voting is so fickle.
They don't choose the best coaches. They select the coach from the team who was the biggest surprise.
Back in October one Vegas site had MLF as 10th @ 1200 to 1.
Last week a different site has him 13th.
Yet another site says Flores at Miami, Gruden in Vegas and Kingsbury in AZ are better candidates.

Seriously?
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beast
4 years ago

Voting is so fickle.
They don't choose the best coaches. They select the coach from the team who was the biggest surprise.
Back in October one Vegas site had MLF as 10th @ 1200 to 1.
Last week a different site has him 13th.
Yet another site says Flores at Miami, Gruden in Vegas and Kingsbury in AZ are better candidates.

Seriously?

Originally Posted by: wpr 



That's what I've been basically saying about the Heisman for a while there... they just vote for the new flashy toy QB... if there is none, then QB/RB on the #1 team.

But yeah never quite how they figured out best coach, but maybe it's like you said.

Pro-Bowl vote is a popularity contest joke.
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Smokey
4 years ago
The Pro Bowl voting, currently underway, is indeed a popular vote. All poles, elections, and majority decisions are voted on. The determining factor is always who is doing the voting. Fans will of course vote for players from their home teams for the Pro Bowl. MVP, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the year, and other superlatives are voted on by a much smaller group.

LaFleur/Coach of the Year is possible. Yet in my experience the coach that has taken a team from a poor record to a playoff team generally gets rewarded. TB's addition of Brady/Gronk aside, they were a non factor for years. Look at their "total" team now and Bruce Arians deserves a slap on the back.
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beast
4 years ago

The Pro Bowl voting, currently underway, is indeed a popular vote. All poles, elections, and majority decisions are voted on.

Originally Posted by: Smokey 

Though the point was simply the pro bowl is a joke, the best players don't always get voted in...

And since so many players opt out, even more players that shouldn't be there get in. Plus I think they have still failed to fix the label problem, where edge rushers win at both DE and OLB, when edge rushers should be there own group.

LaFleur/Coach of the Year is possible. Yet in my experience the coach that has taken a team from a poor record to a playoff team generally gets rewarded. TB's addition of Brady/Gronk aside, they were a non factor for years. Look at their "total" team now and Bruce Arians deserves a slap on the back.

Originally Posted by: Smokey 

Using that logic it should go to the Browns, they're actually relevant again... some years I questioned if they would ever be.

And Arians is a primadonna... I don't believe in ass kissing, so I'm happy he didn't with Brady, but it's also stupid to throw Brady under the bus, when some of those errors are clearly on the other guy...

One play, a pass rusher basically had a free rush at Brady, he had the choice of taking a sack, grounding or throwing the slant... and the WR looked back and appeared to be running the slant, Brady saw this and pulled the trigger... but then the WR seemed confused and ran a longer route... INT because the WR ran a longer route,

It looked clearly like the WR was short hot route and even looked back for the ball for a split second before stalling and running a longer route ... to me that's not on Brady, he had no other options, and if WR continued to look for the ball, that was an easy 5 yards (or more if he quickly shakes a guy)... I would want my QB to take the hot route over the hit and sack.

But Arians throw Brady under the bus like that, makes me feel sorry for Brady which is impossible (PS, not very sorry either). Reminds me when he asked his ST ACE CB to cover one on one man to man... think Jarrett Bush covering Adam thielen or Justin Jefferson.... yeah it was absolutely horrible... but I could of told you that it was an horrible idea 12 months before that... and never would have expected an NFL coach to actually attempt it. Target that guy on deep bombs all game long, and the other team did and Arians threw him under the bus, there was zero shot of that working though... zero. I can't blame the player for a scheme (with current players available) having zero shot... you have one of the best CBs in the game on the other side, at least you can do is help one CB.


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Smokey
4 years ago
beast,

It is one thing to oppose or even debate my post, but selecting to not quote my entire post misrepresents my argument. Pro Bowl voting by the fans does tend to not elect some of the games best position players, but IMO the best players do rise like cream to the top and get recognized. Some do not and they too are debatable.

TB's HC, or Cleveland's HC, or another teams HC for Coach of the year was not my point. If anything, LaFleur should have been awarded the honor last season when he took over the job, installed a new offense, and saw the Smiths turn the GB Defense around. Coach of the Year honors, usually, a coach that revives a team and breathes new life into them. That said, never forget that a HC is either limited or aided by the personnel the team GM acquires.
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beast
4 years ago

TB's HC, or Cleveland's HC, or another teams HC for Coach of the year was not my point.

Originally Posted by: Smokey 


I could be wrong, but I felt like the 2020 Coach of the Year award is the point of this thread, specifically how LaFleur fits into it was the subject of this thread. So I don't know why that wouldn't be a point.

Now I'm not saying they will... but Brown's still have a shot at winning their division. If the Cleveland Brown's win the division, I think their head coach has to be the coach of the year. None, that's slim and none, but still I think that needs to be a starting point, especially since if they're able knock off the Ravens and Steelers he might be coach of the year even as a wildcard team.

And if one just wants to simplify it and just look NFC, I think people will have a hard time arguing LaFleur over Sean Peyton, when Sean Payton has been missing Drew Brees and keeps winning.

Also, if Football Teams win their division, we might have to watch out for Ron Rivera with the Cancer and taking over a new team, with a new name... 3 different QBs at least, etc... I don't think he'll get it, but I can see someone making a case that he had the most personal difficulties to overcome and NO ONE thought they'd win the division and they did.

But if Packers can overtake the Saints for the #1 seed, then they might have a case, for helping bring Rodgers back to his maximum, MVP level.

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Zero2Cool
4 years ago
I couldn't care less about any of these awards. I just want Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers to get his second Super Bowl MVP in February. I ain't asking for much. You can give rookie of the year to whomever. Coach of year to whomever. AP NFL MVP to whomever. I just want that Super Bowl MVP.
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4 years ago

I couldn't care less about any of these awards.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Thank you so much for properly using the expression "couldn't care less"!!!

There are too many morons who say "I could care less" who have not mentally thought through how stupid that mis-expression is.


In Luce tua Videmus Lucem KRK
Cheesey
4 years ago

Thank you so much for properly using the expression "couldn't care less"!!!

There are too many morons who say "I could care less" who have not mentally thought through how stupid that mis-expression is.

Originally Posted by: KRK 



I could care less what you think about it..........šŸ˜‚šŸ¤ŖšŸ˜œšŸ˜‚šŸ˜

(I cant help it! I am after all, CHEESEY!😁)
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4 years ago
take away Rodgers, this team would be 3-13, maybe. That's why MLF is not in the running
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