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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
"I'll take the word of guys who write about football for a living...."
{another NFL squad hires one of Andy's assistants to be an actual head coach..."}
"Oh, well it's because they just assume he's smarter than the guy that taught him all that stuff..."
The national media carries sway for you - the NFL front offices that continue to employ people trained by Andy Reid, OTOH, well that's just coincidence.
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But you have to separate being a brilliant head coach and managing games. Marty is one of the best coaches of all time in terms of preparing players. Andy Reid is excellent at preparing players and arguably the most innovative playcaller in today's game. They run the table on regular season games. But in the playoffs where every mistake is magnified by 100, those small mistakes become big deals, and you have to hope that for 3 or 4 games they don't end up costing you.
Like our offense turtling up against Indy and our defense running prevent. Like nobody on our coaching staff saying a damn word while Alex Smith milks 30 seconds off the clock every. Single. Snap. Like dialing up 2 damn run plays in the entire second half +running prevent. If you go back to the eagles days you'll see the same thing. Either he's constantly snake bit. Or maybe he just consistently isn't good at Situational game management. I've always said the conundrum with Andy Reid is on the one hand, few coaches can field a team as good as the one Andy Reid puts on the field. But that comes with the baggage that those players have to overcome his mistakes.