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The NFL's Best Managers For The Buck
Christina Settimi, 09.02.09, 06:00 PM EDT
The New York Giants duo of general manager Jerry Reese and Coach Tom Coughlin tops our list.
The National Football League's front offices are bracing for Armageddon. The owners' vote last year to opt out of the league's current collective bargaining agreement with the players' union means the 2010 season will be the league's first played without a salary cap since 1993. Agents are foaming at the mouth in anticipation of an uncapped season, while teams brace for a new economic reality where valuing talent properly and getting the most out of those players on the field is critical.
With that in mind, we decided to take a look at the general manager and head coach combos who have delivered the best performance on the field relative to player costs over the past two seasons. The grading system we used looks at the number of wins per player payroll (including all salaries, bonuses and benefits) relative to the rest of the NFL. Postseason wins count twice as much as regular season wins. We excluded any team whose current GM or coach was hired since the start of the 2007 season (this past off-season, 11 new coaches were hired). That narrowed our pool to 14 teams whose GM/coach tandems have been in place for at least two seasons. We averaged teams' player-cost-to-win ratios over the past two seasons and ranked the results.
No. 1 New York Giants
GM: Jerry Reese
Coach: Tom Coughlin
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 183
No. 2 Tennessee Titans
GM: Mike Reinfeldt
Coach: Jeff Fisher
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 155
No. 3 Pittsburgh Steelers
GM: Kevin Colbert
Coach: Mike Tomlin
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 147
No. 4 San Diego Chargers
GM: A.J. Smith
Coach: Norv Turner
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 142
No. 5 Philadelphia Eagles
GM: Tom Heckert
Coach: Andy Reid
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 127
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Christina Settimi, 09.02.09, 06:00 PM EDT
The New York Giants duo of general manager Jerry Reese and Coach Tom Coughlin tops our list.
The National Football League's front offices are bracing for Armageddon. The owners' vote last year to opt out of the league's current collective bargaining agreement with the players' union means the 2010 season will be the league's first played without a salary cap since 1993. Agents are foaming at the mouth in anticipation of an uncapped season, while teams brace for a new economic reality where valuing talent properly and getting the most out of those players on the field is critical.
With that in mind, we decided to take a look at the general manager and head coach combos who have delivered the best performance on the field relative to player costs over the past two seasons. The grading system we used looks at the number of wins per player payroll (including all salaries, bonuses and benefits) relative to the rest of the NFL. Postseason wins count twice as much as regular season wins. We excluded any team whose current GM or coach was hired since the start of the 2007 season (this past off-season, 11 new coaches were hired). That narrowed our pool to 14 teams whose GM/coach tandems have been in place for at least two seasons. We averaged teams' player-cost-to-win ratios over the past two seasons and ranked the results.
No. 1 New York Giants
GM: Jerry Reese
Coach: Tom Coughlin
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 183
No. 2 Tennessee Titans
GM: Mike Reinfeldt
Coach: Jeff Fisher
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 155
No. 3 Pittsburgh Steelers
GM: Kevin Colbert
Coach: Mike Tomlin
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 147
No. 4 San Diego Chargers
GM: A.J. Smith
Coach: Norv Turner
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 142
No. 5 Philadelphia Eagles
GM: Tom Heckert
Coach: Andy Reid
Player-costs-to-win ratio: 127
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