Active Salary Cap, Jason Garrett and Coach of the Year ramble.

[waving monkey]

Note: This has become a bit of a rambling stream of conscious and needs reworking and editing but I just don't have the time anymore. I nearly deleted it, which happens to most of my fanposts now because of lack of time to finish them properly, but it is mostly coherent (but perhaps not real interesting) so I thought I would just put it up and maybe someone will find something interesting in it.
Last years NFL Coach of the Year was the Carolina Panthers Ron Rivera. In his first two seasons as HC the Panthers struggled at 6-10 (2011) and 7-9 (2012) but his third was a memorable 12-4 (though this year they have regressed, 7-8-1). I think Ron was deserving of that award last year and there's one reason in particular that stands out to me: Rivera's team was the only team with a bottom quarter salary cap spending on active players to make the playoffs.

link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...ap-jason-garrett-and-coach-of-the-year-ramble

 

[Oh_Canada]

Regardless of this article (and it makes a good case why he should be), Jason Garrett should win the COTY, but something tells me it's going to Arians.

 

[Stash]

I think it's Arians all the way.

Having his team overcome the large number of prominent injuries seals it for him.

And, unlike Garrett, I don't think Arians got better while having less responsibilities the way Garrett has. I think that also works against Garrett's chances.

Not that it should eliminate him from the conversation as he's had a great year, but I think the award goes to Arians.

 

[Eskimo]

The late season swoon may doom Arians.

If the polling isn't done until after the season is over the Cowboys are riding a high off 4 straight dominating wins in November in a season when most pundits had them somewhere between 3-6 wins on the year. For this team to lose Hatcher, Ware and Lee and improve so dramatically in the wins department is a compelling story.

Anyhow, doesn't really matter all that much. It'd be nice to see Coach get some recognition but CoTY seem to get fired a lot.

 

[xwalker]

Note: This has become a bit of a rambling stream of conscious and needs reworking and editing but I just don't have the time anymore. I nearly deleted it, which happens to most of my fanposts now because of lack of time to finish them properly, but it is mostly coherent (but perhaps not real interesting) so I thought I would just put it up and maybe someone will find something interesting in it.
Last years NFL Coach of the Year was the Carolina Panthers Ron Rivera. In his first two seasons as HC the Panthers struggled at 6-10 (2011) and 7-9 (2012) but his third was a memorable 12-4 (though this year they have regressed, 7-8-1). I think Ron was deserving of that award last year and there's one reason in particular that stands out to me: Rivera's team was the only team with a bottom quarter salary cap spending on active players to make the playoffs.

link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...ap-jason-garrett-and-coach-of-the-year-ramble

It's not clear what he is defining at "Active Spending".

For example, in year 1 of Brandon Carr's 50M contract, his cap hit was 3.6M. Is that the number that he would use as "Active Spending" for that year? If it is, then it's misleading. If Carr played out his contract without a pay cut, then the real "Active Spending" amount per year would be 10M on a 5-year, 50M contract, not 3.6M. If Carr is cut after this season he will have been paid 24.8M for 3 years which is 8.2M average per year.

 

[AbeBeta]

Note: This has become a bit of a rambling stream of conscious and needs reworking and editing but I just don't have the time anymore. I nearly deleted it, which happens to most of my fanposts now because of lack of time to finish them properly, but it is mostly coherent (but perhaps not real interesting) so I thought I would just put it up and maybe someone will find something interesting in it.
Last years NFL Coach of the Year was the Carolina Panthers Ron Rivera. In his first two seasons as HC the Panthers struggled at 6-10 (2011) and 7-9 (2012) but his third was a memorable 12-4 (though this year they have regressed, 7-8-1). I think Ron was deserving of that award last year and there's one reason in particular that stands out to me: Rivera's team was the only team with a bottom quarter salary cap spending on active players to make the playoffs.

link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2014...ap-jason-garrett-and-coach-of-the-year-ramble

When you see a pattern one year, and it disappears the next, it means there really is no pattern. Each quarter is 8 teams. One awful team in any quarter makes average wins a useless statistic

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

I think if you look at what was expected of the team going into the season and where the team ended up, you can make a pretty good case for Garrett. If you look at where the team ended up based on what they went through during the season with injuries and such, you can make a good case for Arians.

 

[Doomsday101]

I think Garrett has good chance much of it is based on expectation which there was none for Dallas but doom and gloom, reports before the season that Dallas likely would be the worst team in the NFL to now being 12-4 and NFC Champs. Arians is good but that team was 10-6 last season and the arrow was pointing up heading into this season

 

[dupree89]

Arians is coach of the year. They not only had injuries, they had injuries to key players. And, he is the warm and fuzzy choice. These types of awards are not just gonna be delivered on a silver platter to someone with the Cowboys, unfortunately.

JG is my coach of the year, but I don't see him actually winning it.

 

[FiveTime]

I think it's Arians all the way.

Having his team overcome the large number of prominent injuries seals it for him.

And, unlike Garrett, I don't think Arians got better while having less responsibilities the way Garrett has. I think that also works against Garrett's chances.

Not that it should eliminate him from the conversation as he's had a great year, but I think the award goes to Arians.

That is pretty hard to argue against! I would love to see Coach Garrett be named COTY but Arians has a pretty good claim also.

 

[Texas_Pete]

Arians beat Weeden 28-17. Red should win it.

 

[Stash]

That is pretty hard to argue against! I would love to see Coach Garrett be named COTY but Arians has a pretty good claim also.

Both are certainly deserving, but I think overcoming that number of injuries will give Arians the edge.