championship game coaches over the past 3 years - almost all offensive coaches

[dave mcbride]

Since the 2020 season, 11 of the 12 teams that made the championship game have had offensive coaches and for just this year and last year, it's been 8 out of 8. The only defensive coach to make it was McDermott, and his team was curb-stomped by Andy Reid. Including this year and going back to 2019, 8 out of 8 SB coaches will have been offensive coaches. 

 

I'm not saying that a coach has to be an offensive guy -- Belichick!! -- but there does seem to be a pretty clear trendline.  

Edited January 23, 2023 by dave mcbride

[Chaos]

15 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

Since the 2020 season, 11 of the 12 teams that made the championship game have had offensive coaches and for just this year and last year, it's been 8 out of 8. The only defensive coach to make it was McDermott, and his team was curb-stomped by Andy Reid. Including this year and going back to 2019, 8 out of 8 SB coaches will have been offensive coaches. 

 

I'm not saying that a coach has to be an offensive guy -- Belichick!! -- but there does seem to be a pretty clear trendline.  

The great NFL success stories in the super bowl era (with one exception) feature a Coach and QB whose names go together like Abbott and Costello, hard to think of one without the other:
 

1. Lombardi-Star
2. Bellichek-Brady
3. Noll-Bradshaw
4. Walsh-Montana

 

No one really connects McDermott - Allen in a similar way. 
 

It is not that McDermott is a defensive guy.  The problem is he seesm to no ownership of the offense. He even almost seems to compete for resources with offense.  Belichek may have been a defensive guy, but he made sure that Brady almost always had the best oline in the league in front of him. He owned big decisions like cutting Randy Moss.  

Edited January 23, 2023 by Chaos