New NFL coaches: a bond of unexperience
It looks like NFL teams are trusting the tough head coach position to unexperienced guys like John Harbaugh, who doesn’t have a head coaching background.
Team owners like Redskins Dan Snyder are betting to the new talent, guys with a clean record, people that doesn’t have any black marks on their history.
Let’s take a quick review to these new head coaches and let’s see who has the most chances of making and who doesn’t.
Jim Zorn, a former NFL quarterback, has never been a coordinator before, he was hired as the Redskins offensive coordinator just a few weeks ago and suddenly got promoted to heach coach to his own surprise, he is arriving to a team that gave a good fight on the last stages of the season that just finished and even made it to the playoffs, but there is wild card on the game, and it is the fact that he didn’t got to choose his own staff, this is something that he will need to adjust to and see if there is enough good chemistry to come up with results.
On the Ravens, John Harbaugh has the advantange of counting with enough autonomy and trust from owner Steve Bisciotti and general manager Ozzie Newsome, but playing against him is the fact that he doesn’t have a previous offensive coordinator background, and the Ravens are urged for a better quarterback to add to their attack, so if he doesn’t manage to come up with some victories quick, he might end up being fired as former Baltimore coach Brian Billick.
The guy that has the most difficult task in hands may be Tony Sparano, the new head coach for the Dolphins, since Miami is coming from a 1-15 season and the task of rebuilding their roster is a major one, he will surely going to need some serious help and the cooperation of players in general, they don’t have a competent quarterback and find it might be the key stone of the whole story.
Mike Smith is probably the guy with the most experience among these new coaches, he’s a former Jaguars defensive coordinator, and if he can find a way to build a strong defense, the Falcons have the chance to hold opponents and win games, but something that puts him along the same lines as these other new guys is the fact that they don’t have an outstanding quarterback either, since Michael Vick is serving his sentence and running back Warrick Dunn is counting his last days as a professional NFL player.
Well at least these are signs of change, and change is always a positive thing, even if they fail, the testing is taking place and it just makes it more interesting for the next season.
