Report: Shanahan to DC done deal

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

No one's beating down Shanahan's door either... except us. There are only two superbowl head coaches out there now and only two vacancies. Its not rocket science to understand whats going on...

As to records, Cowher's record is vastly superior to Shanahans. Tomlin won a superbowl with a team built by Cowher. Just like Shanahan won a superbowl with a team built by his predecessor. Just like Gruden won one built by his. Cowher's teams were in the playoffs 10 out of 15 years (66%). Shanahans were in 7 out of 16 (43.7%)

Its a "what have you done for me lately league," so how do these two stack up? Cowher retired on his own after going 34-14 (0.708 winning percentage) in his past 3 years. Shanahan was fired with something like 21MM and 3 years left on his contract. He was ran out of town by one of the most patient owners in football. Why? Shanahan's record in the last 3 years - 24-24 (0.500).

Based on their history, with Shanahan, we'll be in the playoffs less than half the time with a record that hovers a little above or below 500. With Cowher, we'd be in 2 out of every 3 years. Both are upgrades over what we had with Zorn. But if you want to compare the two, its not even close. Cowher is the vastly superior coach.

Wrong. Tomlin and Cowher won with teams built by Kevin Colbert, the general manager.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Wrong. Tomlin and Cowher won with teams built by Kevin Colbert, the general manager.

And Shanahan never won a thing with a team he built as defacto GM - the same thing he'd be here.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

And Shanahan never won a thing with a team he built as defacto GM - the same thing he'd be here.

Never said that he did.