Alright now for the point of this post. Actually I'm going to side bar here for a second and make two comments. First, I am thankful that starting tomorrow at 3:00 pm on NBC my Chicago Blackhawks will kick off the start of the NHL season against the reigning Stanley Cup Champion LA Kings. Second, anyone who has read any of my previous posts know that I am extremely inconsistent with my post. So starting with this post I will be doing a post a week on either Fridays or Saturdays. So if your bored come read the Bach's Sports Box and I will add to your growing boredom.
We entered the year 2013 with a bushel of NFL coaches losing their jobs. We witnessed coaches of all different shapes and sizes (yes that is a fat joke about Andy Reid) fall prey to the ax this season. And with every coach fired a new one must be hired and this season there was 8 vacant head coaching jobs. So with my "expert" experience I am going to tell you 5 readers who the winners and losers were this year in filling the head coaching void.
Winners:
Arizona Cardinals: Arizona fired Ken Whisenhunt after 6 seasons and one Super Bowl appearance. Arizona made what I believe was the best hire going with Colts offensive coordinator and interim head coach Bruce Arians. Arizona is in dire need of a QB and Arians is the Willy Wonka to the Chocolate Factory that is QB development. Just look on his resume under the name Manning. It will be interesting to see what Arians does with Kevin Kolb and John Skelton, but my money says that probably one, maybe both will be looking for a new team this season.
San Diego Chargers: Here is a perfect example of a team that was mismanaged. I'm not even going to go into how Norv Turner screwed up in San Diego, but it was bad. Instead I'm going to tell you that the Chargers hired divisional rival the Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy. The Chargers job is similar to the Arizona job but it comes with an established QB in Phillip Rivers. Rivers isn't the best QB that McCoy has worked with but he is defiantly better than the worst (cough* Tim Tebow).
Jacksonville Jaguars: Yes you read right. I think Gus Bradley can make Jacksonville a winner, but he needs to do what he does best which is make tough defenses and he needs to find a QB because Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne are not the answer. This is a team that desperately wants to return to the Mark Brunell days.
Losers:
Cleveland Browns: WTF? I can't stress how happy I am that I'm not a Browns fan. Cleveland hired Rob Chudzinski the offensive coordinator from the Carolina Panthers. In Cleveland you have Brandon Weeden who is on the complete other side of the spectrum from Cam Newton. Plus they hired Norv Turner as their offensive coordinator. This franchise just needs a purging where the only survivor is Trent Richardson.
Philadelphia Eagles: Let me just say right now that if any of my Loser choice are wrong this will be the one. I think Chip Kelly is a good coach but I don't like what he did to Oregon. I understand he had a change of heart but in this situation you have to go with your first instinct. He is going to regret leaving Eugene plain and simple. The Eagles are an all-star team and when I say all-star I mean they don't play as a team. Maybe Chip can get them all on the same page but that's just the start of the problem in Philly.
Kansas City Chiefs: Speaking of the Eagles, Kansas City hired Philly's former coach Andy Reid. Reid had been in Philadelphia for 14 seasons but I doubt a change of scenery will help his struggles. I'm guessing it's a safe bet that Matt Cassel will not be in KC by the start of the season and Brady Quinn is not a full time starter. They are already in a tough division and an elite running back doesn't mean as much as it used to.
Stupid or Lucky?
Chicago Bears: Marc Trestman? Really? For those of you who don't know Marc Trestman he was the Head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. For those of you who haven't heard of the CFL your not missing anything. Trestman does have NFL experience as a coordinator with a few teams. He will be tasked with trying to make an inconsistent offense and QB consistent. There is another factor that needs to be consider though, this defense is starting to get old. Will this prove to be a stupid or lucky hire? We will have to wait for the season to know.
Buffalo Bills: This team isn't that bad they just play the machine that is the Patriots twice a season. Which is why I was surprised they hired Doug Marrone and not Lovie Smith. This team could have used Smith's defensive knowledge. Instead they went to the the college ranks and hired Marrone from Syracuse. I've never heard of him which is shocking so I'm gonna call this the wild card of the bunch. If they win they win and if they lose well that's no big surprise.
So you now have seen inside my sports box. So until next weekend I leave you with this video:
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