PFW Head Coach Power Rankings: Good News/Bad News For Leslie Frazier

by Christopher Gates on Jun 11, 2011 12:02 PM CDT in Minnesota Vikings 2011 Season

"Yeah, my ranking is a little low right now, but give me a while. . .it will change." (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Pro Football Weekly has put together a Power Ranking for the head coaches in the National Football League, and it has some good things and some bad things for Leslie Frazier.

As you might expect, as a new head coach, Frazier is down at the bottom of the rankings, coming in at 27th of the 32 NFL head coaches. I'm guessing that this isn't any real indictment of Frazier's coaching abilities. . .after all, with only six games under his belt as an NFL head coach, there isn't a heck of a lot to go on as far as a track record. He's simply, as the kids online today might say, "teh n00b."

The good news is that, of the seven first-time head coaches in the NFL this season. . .who take up the 26th through 32nd spots in the rankings, largely for the reasons I just described. . .Frazier is the second-highest, behind only Jason Garrett of the Dallas Cowboys. And his closest competition in the NFC North isn't that far ahead of him, as Detroit Lions' head coach Jim Schwartz is the lowest-ranked returning head coach in the NFL at number 25.

(I had originally said "new" head coaches in the previous paragraph, but forgot about new Denver Broncos' head coach John Fox, who is inexplicably in the top half of these rankings despite leading the Carolina Panthers to a 2-14 record last season and subsequently getting canned.)

Crazy prediction. . .when the 2012 PFW Head Coach Power Rankings come out, Leslie Frazier is going to be a hell of a lot higher than number 27.

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New coaches shouldn't just be thrown to the bottom

And John Fox?? He barely has a winning record after 158 games (78-74) and he’s better that Leslie Frasier, who went threw hell, highwater, and frickin sharks with frickin lazer-beams on their frickin heads to spank out a even record of 3-3. I wouldn’t trade Frasier for Fox even if he came with a shiny, new stadium.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on - Winston Churchill

by Alittlemore_cowbell on Jun 11, 2011 1:21 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

Fox

From what I understand Fox was making the best of a bad deal, when he was HC in Carolina. I kept reading about how he couldn’t get the players and staff he wanted, so I don’t think the responsibility for the poor record lies 100% with him.

by PurpleX on Jun 11, 2011 2:49 PM CDT reply actions

Ok

Then some of it would fall on the F.O., but I like Frasier. I still wouldn’t trade : )

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on - Winston Churchill

by Alittlemore_cowbell on Jun 11, 2011 3:19 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

No trade

We agree on that.

by PurpleX on Jun 11, 2011 8:57 PM CDT up reply actions

Agreed it's hard to win a card game when your dealt a bad hand

by the yooper on Jun 11, 2011 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions

Well

In all honesty, part of his job is just dealing with that, too.

It’s easy to be the head coach when you’re coaching the All-Madden team with Bill Walsh as an OC and Dick LeBeau as a DC. The real test is coaching when you don’t get top-tier personnel at every positioin.

Which is why I both hate and admire Bill Belichek.

by Arif Hasan on Jun 12, 2011 9:04 AM CDT up reply actions