Whether you realize it or not, the Head Coach (the guy with the headset on) is calling time outs, making the crucial decisions, all game long. When to go for an onside kick, when to punt or go for the first down, final decisions on play calling, etc… How can he do that on Saturday — the game is on Sunday.

As for Herm, if he was a good gameday coach, we could have won the Superbowl. We had a very good team and they played very hard for him. Herm’s problem was that he did not make the game-day decisions well. He did a poor job controlling the game.

I don’t think that you will get too many people agreeing with you, that a head coach is a figurehead on Sundays. His job is crucial.

I respectfully disagree with you.

The only thing a coach does of value on game day is make halftime adjustments.

Everything that you state that a coach must do on gameday is not possible.All that must have been done earlier.

No rehearsals possible on showday.

Concerning Coach Edwards and his ‘ game-day terribleness’…Didn’t He take our team further than it went with Parcells or anybody since Eubank.

The team either has it figured out on Saturday already or it’s likely a loss.

i couldnt disagree more. a football head coach has probably more of a direct impact on a game than any other person in the building. he is responsible for putting players in position to make plays, making adjustments throughout the course fo the game, managing timeouts, punting/going for it….the list goes on and on…

for proff of this look no further than herm edwards. by most accounts, he was a great coach monday – saturday. he motivated his players, he gameplanned, players loved to play for him. but he could not coach a game. he was terrible with timeouts and clock management, etc, etc. he singlehandedly costed the team a trip to the AFC championship. thats the impact a HC makes on a game

If you are old enough to remember Bill Parcell — if we were winning the game, with five minutes or less left in the game — the game was over. Bill was a master of running out the clock and ending the game.

If you remember Herm, he was a great motivator of players but, he was a horrible game day coach. Mangini was not much better.

If you think that a coach’s job on game day is decorative — you must be watching soccer.

A Coach’s job is largely decorative on game day.His job occurs during the endless days and months before and after those games to make sure that thew team that takes the field is in a superior state of mind and body-both individually and collectively.

It’s clear that Coach Ryan is doing that..but as Mr. Calvin Pace said something to the tune of…”It’s still up to whether the players perform up to their abilities and beyond…”

Getting the players to the gameday field in a good state of mind is something that Ryan excells at and something at which Coach Mangini was rather mediocre.

And Drew, I think you meant that you were pulling for Rex.
Push would indicate that you actually had some say in the matter…..just sayin.