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 This award is
modeled after Wade Phillips, the Buffalo Bills' coach
who looks perpetually clueless. There were no awards given for
either of the championship games or the Super Bowl. The coaching in these
last three games was pretty good. Note: This list started late in
the 1999 season when this site was launched. Starting in September
we'll have a fresh choice each week.
DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS:
JIMMY JOHNSON, MIAMI
This one is easy: Your team lost 62-7, the
second-largest margin in NFL history. It's your job to get them to
play. We think you came up just a bit short.
WILD CARD WEEKEND:
DISSENTING OPINIONS
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WADE
PHILLIPS, the Bills'
resident boob, waited until the playoffs to earn his first
award of the season.
First, he benches Doug Flutie, who
led the Bills to 10 wins, in favor of Rob Johnson, who played
well in a totally meaningless game last week. Flutie is known
for his mobility and the Bills were playing a Tennessee team
with an awesome pass rush. But Flutie is on the bench as the
less-mobile Johnson gets sacked six times and fumbles twice
(once for a safety). Johnson goes 10 for 22, is rusty and the
Bills miss a chance to take control of the game in the first
half.
Then, the Bills have the ball in
field goal range with 20 seconds left, first down. Wade
decided to kick when he had enough time to run some clock,
spike the ball, kick the field goal and leave Tennessee
virtually no time. Instead, the Titans have 16 seconds left,
enough to pull off the play of the new century.
It'll take some doing for
anyone to outdo Wade. |
While Jim is blinded by his
love of Flutie, I am probably just as blinded by my disdain
for him. So, it's no surprise that I do NOT give my
Bonehead Coach Award to Wade this week.
Instead, I give it to the first
man to win this award in back-to-back weeks: MIKE
HOLMGREN.
Holmgren led his team to a loss
to one of the worst teams in years to make the playoffs (in
the AFC) in a long time.
On top of that, how the hell do
you call two defensive timeouts in the second half in a four
point game? Ask Mike Holmgren. It left his offense
with just 65 seconds to march 45 yards for a field goal try -
instead of the three minutes they COULD have had if Holmgren
and his team hadn't been so disorganized on defense. |
WEEK 17:MIKE HOLMGREN,
SEATTLE
For a body of work, Mike Holmgren
gets our last Bonehead Coach of the Week Award for the regular
season. After starting the season 8-2, up three games on
the AFC West 2nd place Chiefs, and looking for home field
advantage through the playoffs, Holmgren's team took a skid of
skids going 1-5 in their last six games and needing a
last-second field goal from Oakland, 1,200 miles away, to give
them the division crown. With no truly awful coaching
jobs this week, Holmgren gets it for just being clueless since
Veteran's Day.
WEEK 16: BOBBY ROSS,
DETROIT
Ross is the guy who went for 2
against Arizona and cost the Lions the game. On Christmas Day,
Ross' Lions were down 17 and facing 4th and 12 against Denver.
A field goal by the reliable Jason Hanson brings Detroit
within two TDs. But Ross goes for it and the Lions fail. They
later score a TD on another drive. Had he kicked the field
goal, Detroit would have had a chance to tie. Ross must have
been sleeping during math class.
WEEK 15: PETE CARROLL,
NEW ENGLAND
Since taking over from Bill
Parcells in 1997, Pete Carroll has led the Patriots in the
direction away from the Super Bowl. His worst effort as a
coach may have come Sunday when his Pats, still alive for the
playoffs, played without passion or ability in losing to the
3-11 Philadelphia Eagles, 24-9. Carroll has lost his team and
will almost certainly be fired a few days into the new
century.
WEEK 14: RAY RHODES,
GREEN BAY
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This is Rhodes' third time in this space, so we may have to rename the award.
On Sunday, Clueless Ray was at it again. The situation: Packers lead Carolina,
31-27, 40 seconds left, clock running, Carolina at the Green Bay 5, fourth
down. It's a no-brainer for Rhodes: Call timeout! If the Panthers score,
you would leave Brett Favre about 30 seconds to try and get the Pack into
field goal range. But Ray, who must think he can carry over time outs to
the next game, does nothing and watches as Carolina lets the clock tick down
to 5 seconds when the Panthers call time out. They score, the clock runs
out and The Ray Rhodes Firing Watch begins.
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