Best Head Coaches Currently In The NFL

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Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

A lot of players bought into his scheme. Jason Taylor and LaDainian Tomlinson both said they went to the Jets because of Rex (mind you this is the same LT and JT that called Sanchez bad and Santonio Holmes a locker room problem; they know what they're talking about). He can coach, the problem is he doesn't have a QB. Rex knows he made a mistake with drafting Sanchez and that he's tied to Sanchez until a new QB proves to be better. I guarantee you that if Rex had a QB we'd be talking about how he is a definite top 5 coach.

Well, coaches usually only get one chance with a quarterback, so he decided to roll with Sanchez and it should and probably will cost him his job at the end of this year. He did treat Sanchez like a princess which caused huge locker room problems. He would not be a top 5 coach (maybe a top 5 coach that has not won a superbowl but not a top 5 overall coach), but he would be more highly respected than he is now. Players bought into his system the first couple of years, but after that everyone was reporting how the Jets had the worst locker room in the NFL, which is Ryan's responsibility. People also forget that he took over a team that had a winning record the year before. It wasn't like he took over a team that had 5 consecutive losing seasons.

He is definitely more bark than bite but he will get his chance somewhere else, which I hope will be the Cowboys because it just fits, just because they are both on TV a lot but produce mediocre results. But he is definitely a second/third tier coach, Andy Reid and Lovie Smith made the playoffs the last year Ryan took a team to the playoffs and they were both fired. He isn't in the same class as Coughlin, Belichick, McCarthy, Payton, Tomlin or the Haurbaugh brothers.

In the end Ryan knows how to coach a defense but has not shown the ability to coach a team. Maybe a new team would be all he would need to prove that wrong.