Belichick--Coach of the Year

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Originally Posted by Scav

Crennel should have won, complete turn around, and even at the start of the season they looked to go 4-12 again

He wasn't terrible, but he did many odd things...flipping a coin to decide your starting qb?? Picking the wrong one but bailed out by Savage. The team had many odd things happen. Their schedule was one of the easiest in NFL history as well...beat one team with winning record (Seattle) and one .500 team (Houston)

played Oakland... 4 wins (lost to them)
Ravens twice... 5 wins
Dolphins... 1 win
Rams... 3 wins
Bengals twice... 7 wins (lost to them once)
Jets...3 wins
bills...7 wins
Cardinals...8 wins (lost to them)
49ers...5 wins

played only 3 teams with a winning record (Seattle, NE and PIttsburgh) and went 1-3 against them.

The 10-6 record was more a product of the ridiculously easy schedule, good personnel moves by Randy Savage (the drafting of Joe Thomas--Eric Wright and Brandon McDonald and FA signings of Jamal Lewis and Eric Steinbach, trading of Charlie Frye) , and the offensive coordinator Chudzinski than Crennel.

I don't think he was coach of the year. When you need one more win to make the playoffs and couldn't beat Oakland, Arizona playing without Fitzgerald, or Cincinnati who was playing with two backup safeties on an already horrid defense I don't think you are coach of the year. Those losses weren't all his fault, but still.