02-07-2018, 07:43 PM
(02-07-2018, 06:46 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: When you lose 7 times in 7 straight chances, including 5 consecutive, all under the same head coach...there comes a point where the obvious conclusion is that the head coach is in over his head in terms of the challenges of postseason play.
Not when he was not favored to win many of those games because the other team had more talent.
Do you think Belichick does not try as hard to win in the regular season as he does in the playoffs? I don't.
Do you think Mike Shanahan, Rex Ryan, and Gary Kubiak are better postseason coaches than Belichick? They have all beaten him in the playoffs.
John Harbaugh has has a winning record against Belichick in the postseason. Does that mean John is a better coach the Bill?
The answer is that you can not judge a coach on a small sample size. You can't say that Belichicks 11 postseason losses in don't count because he has won other postseason games. If it really was all about coaching then Bill would never have lost any of those. Losing in the playoffs is about a bunch of different things like talent, matchups, and sometimes just plain luck. The fact that Marvin has lost 3 playoff games where he was favored does not mean it is impossible for him to win in the postseason. that is just too small of a sample size.
And you can't just brush this off as being crazy to compare Marvin to Bill. That is not what I am doing. Instead I am using Belichick as an example because most people here would consider him one of the greatest postseason coaches of all time yet he has 11 post season losses.
