Rex Ryan The Perfect Example Of How The NFL Head Coaching Job Is Changing

[Elias]

Great article and I agree on every point. Do you think we put too much stock into the HC? What about the idea of hiring co-head coaches?

After six tumultuous seasons with the New York Jets, Rex Ryan has been hired to be the next head coach of the Buffalo Bills.

The move is an interesting one for the Bills as Ryan is a defensive specialist and the team already has one of the best defenses in the NFL and struggles offensively. But at the same time, the move highlights what may be an archaic thought in the NFL: that teams need a traditional head coach at all.

On several occasions during his tenure with the Jets, Ryan made it clear that his role was to run the defense and the offense wasn't really his concern. On one occasion, Ryan admitted he had no idea one of his wide receivers had been benched. On another occasion, Ryan admitted he had not watched the offense at all during a preseason game even though there was a quarterback battle.

There is little reason to feel that will be any different in Buffalo, where former 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman will run the offense, according to Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com.

Which leads to the question, why is Ryan the boss over Roman if they have equal duties on the field?

At some point, a team is going to get smart and they will simply hire a "VP of football operations, offense" and a "VP of football operations, defense" to coach the respective sides of the ball and stay out of each other's way.

That team can then hire a Bill Parcells or a Mike Holmgren-type as the president of football operations to make personnel decisions, handle the occasional decision that overlaps the offense and defense, and oversee the entire operations from afar with little involvement on the field.

We have already seen this implemented at the college level on a few occasions. Both Joe Paterno at Penn State and Bobby Bowden at Florida State served more as CEOs of their schools' football programs and when it came to practice and game day, their appearances were more as figureheads.

The NFL has become so specialized that it is nearly impossible to ask one coach to be proficient on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball. Instead we have offensive coaches and defensive coaches, with one that gets paid more just because he speaks to the media more often.

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[ucrenegade]

yeah and lets have a hundred military people that can have final say on pushing the nuke button

or having hundreds of CEO's for the same company that all have equal say in the direction of the company.

I get what your saying but their is a popular expression for this " to many cooks in the kitchen" that is a recipe for disaster

rex already unintentionally having this mantra is the reason he got fired in the first place.

You need someone that can make the tough decisions about a team/business/battle............. etc etc etc

Just my opinion

 

[flgreen]

I think the point of the article is that 90% of candidates are experts on one side of the ball or the other. Apart of their job is to select coordinators that can implement their overall vision.

Parcells was a good example of that. When ever he moved from town to town, he took "his guys" with him. Both coaches and players. The HC in the NFL is a monster job, and assistants are a major factor in success or failure.

One of Rex big failures wasn't that he wasn't an Offensive genius, it was that he selected poor coordinators

 

[CodieneWanKenobi]

I actually liked Rex. But your right with the right Offensive Coordinator and GM he could have done way better. Let's hope he doesn't get either at Buffalo.

 

[flgreen]

I actually liked Rex. But your right with the right Offensive Coordinator and GM he could have done way better. Let's hope he doesn't get either at Buffalo.

He seems to have started off pretty well with Roman. They seem to fit perfectly. He still has the same problem he had with the Jets. No QB. E J is better then Smith, but he a long way from a franchise QB

 

[CodieneWanKenobi]

I'm sure he's gonna try to do the same tandem RB thing in Buffalo with CJ Spiller & Fred Jackson.

 

[flgreen]

 

[ucrenegade]

no wings and beer .................shame on you @buffalo

 

[Deleted member 39]

Great article and I agree on every point. Do you think we put too much stock into the HC? What about the idea of hiring co-head coaches?

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I would be shocked if Rex ever said anything close to "my job is to run the defense I'm not concerned with the offense." Please, someone shove that down my throat with a quote from Rex? The quote need not be verbatim, but I would like to see that Rex said he's not concerned with the offense. Rex may have said that he wasn't concerned about the offense doing well, but the author makes it seem as if Rex believes that offense is not important in the NFL. How could a former Defensive Coordinator believe that offense was not important? If Offense was not important in the NFL, then stopping Offenses (with Rex's Defenses) would not be important.

For at least 20 years, Head Coaches have hired OCs and DCs that have been very specialized and influential. Experts (not Cobblers) have often joked -- 'to be a great Head Coach all you need to do is hire great OCs and DCs.' If you remember, back in the day, Jets coach Bruce Coslet insisted on calling his own plays. GM Steinberg had told him to have an OC call plays like other HCs. But Coslet had it his way, and when the Jets missed the playoffs Coslet was gone (and Carroll was in). Thirty-plus years before that, the Giants had Landry as DC and Lombardi as OC. "The NFL has become so specialized."??? This is nothing new.

I believe the author is a boob, with nothing else to write nearing a deadline. You need a topic to write about? Who's calling plays in New England? Ernie Adams or a computer? McDaniels is about as dumb as a drunken New England snowman. He's so dumb ... I think Belichick keeps him around like a pet Labradoodle.

 

[flgreen]

no wings and beer .................shame on you @buffalo

They actually did send wings.