John fox Coach of the year

[Kelly the Dog]

Actually yeah dumb ass. Fox is a winner and can get a bunch of scrubs to fight hard enough to get back into the playoff hunt. Let most teams lose 14 players including the stars that they have lost and see how they do.

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I thought a team is their record, ICE? According to your own standards, that team stinks and their coach should be run out of town!

[MDH]

Actually yeah dumb ass. Fox is a winner and can get a bunch of scrubs to fight hard enough to get back into the playoff hunt. Let most teams lose 14 players including the stars that they have lost and see how they do.

148510[/snapback]

 

If you're the Patriots you win the Super Bowl...

[spidey]

From Lenny P....

 

"Coaching them up

As has been the case the past few seasons, there are an abundance of legitimate coach of the year candidates for 2004. Bill Belichick. Andy Reid. Bill Cowher. Jim Mora. Marty Schottenheimer. But the man who is perhaps doing the best coaching job in the league at this moment, John Fox of Carolina, certainly deserves a shout-out.

Fox won't win the award. Heck, his team might not even make the playoffs, not after a 1-7 start marred by so many injuries. But the fact that the prideful Panthers and their coach didn't long ago throw in the towel on this season -- and, Lord knows, they had justification for doing so -- truly is remarkable.

Fox suggested, following Sunday's 33-21 victory at New Orleans, that the Panthers have "become a new football team." We hate to disagree with a guy whom we are lauding but, in winning for the fourth straight time and remaining on the fringes of playoff contention, Carolina has persevered because it hasn't changed its MO very much at all. Indeed, at a time when some teams are just chameleons, the Panthers retain the same formula that drove them to a Super Bowl berth only a year ago. The difference is that they are making plays now.

Quarterback Jake Delhomme, so error prone just a month ago (seven touchdown passes offset by eight interceptions during an ugly six-game losing skein), has thrown for eight scores and just two pickoffs in the four wins. Nick Goings, basically the team's No. 4 tailback, has strung together three straight 100-yard outings, including an impressive 36-carry, 122-yard game on Sunday afternoon. Aging wideout Muhsin Muhammad (10 catches for 179 yards on Sunday) has resurrected his career. Defensive end Julius Peppers has become both a force and a leader.

But it all starts with Fox, a sort of human rudder for the Panthers, and he certainly has righted the ship. The Panthers still play sound football, run the ball, count on winning close games. And, oh, yeah, they still count on kicker John Kasay, too, who hammered home six field goals in the Superdome.

This is a team that, because of 14 injuries and the loss of its top two tailbacks, most explosive wide receiver and best defensive tackle in the league, lost its already skinny margin for error. But it has persevered and, for that, Fox deserves a nod."

I agree 100%. 1-7 and they cowboy up after such devistating injuries.  but hey...he doesn't interview well....

148450[/snapback]

So MM starting 0 - 4 and turning ship around is a crappy coach? Look we have moved on to a new era GW is no longer the coach of this team. True we didnt have devastating injuries but still this team is playing better than they did at beginning of season.

[spidey]

What is: "Losing the Argument Horribly, So I'll Deflect to Something Else"?

 

I'm sure you expected SD to have a 2 game division lead at the week 13 point, huh Rainman? 

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Darin yur wasting your time with Mr Meltdown. So now that he is off his DB crusade its on to TD crusade or whatever else he can find and B word about with this team. Meltdown maybe you should just be a panthers fan since they have the coach of the year and all those stars that after they return from injury will dominate. Oh Mr Meltdown you forget that BB had lots of injuries as well last year and they didnt start out 1 - 7!!!