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Originally Posted by OmahaRedskins
He has won one superbowl in 10 years with a good front office, good defensive coordinator, and HOF QB.
If Tomlin is the standard for great, then John Harbaugh is also a great coach.
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I think you're not giving the man enough credit for a SB win. Do you know how hard it is to even make it to the game? There are a lot of great coaches and players that played their entire careers without winning or even making it to the big game.
If you think going to 2 SB's and winning one doesn't mean jack for a head coach (who literally controls the majority of day-to-day operations for the entire team) then you are not giving him his due. Even if you want to detract by saying he had a good team and coordinators around him, that's the f'n guy who decided to make sure he had them around him. Those are the decisions the head coach has to make. The GM doesn't decide who the head coach's coordinators are. You think the GM gave Tomlin no input on who made the final roster? In what world would they win a championship with minimal input from the head coach?
I fucking wish Jay Gruden was smart enough to know Joe Barry was gonna waste his time for two years instead of deciding not to hire him right off the bat. I fucking wish our team had coordinators so smart that Gruden could delegate all the responsibility to them so he could stand on the sidelines and make his biggest decision "should I challenge this play or not?" What is the singular goal of every head coach in every major sport? It's not "make this organization rich again." It's "win some motherfucking, goddamn, glory-hogging championships!" That's it. Everything they do centers around that.
So when you have a head coach who actually manages to get there twice and win one, you acknowledge and respect that fact. Saying he won games early the back of Cowher (who literally won one championship in his 15th fucking season) is like saying he found a lotto ticket and decided to check it for shits and giggles. Do you even know how much work goes into being an NFL head coach? Fuckin' a. You think he's Steve Spurrier'ing up in this bitch, working his 9-5 and going golfing during free agency?
Do you know why the best head coaches are successful? It's because they fucking eat, breathe, sleep, and dream football. You are kidding yourself if you think 100 wins in 10 years happens while the head coach is coasting, or as Bradshaw says "cheerleading." But maybe I should take Bradshaw's word for it, because he basically won his championships while cheerleading his defense and his playmakers.