How to build the perfect NFL coach...

[mc52beast]

With everyone crowning Belichick the GOAT I've been thinking about what kind of coach it takes to win consistently, so I'm interested in how you guys would build the "perfect" coach.

Offensive or defensive minded, fired up on the sidelines or calm, older or younger...

[WilmyWood]

[JawnyBlaze]

44 minutes ago, WilmyWood said:

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[LinvilleGorge]

IMO, the key aspects are discipline and the ability to adapt.

Discipline is vital because with the level of competition in the NFL, it's really hard to win when you're missing assignments and committing frivolous penalties.

The ability to adapt is vital because with a hard cap, no one can have all pros at every position. Every team will have weaknesses. A coach has to be able to scheme around those weaknesses. Same thing during the game. Sometimes the best laid out plans simply don't work and you have to go back to the drawing board mid-game. The coaches who can't adapt are the ones coaching teams that just completely fall apart when they have a couple of injuries. Sound familiar?

[Ricky Spanish]

How to build the perfect coach:

Give him Belichick's disdain for the media

Give him Belichick's attention to detail

Give him Belichick's thoroughness

Give him Belichick's ruthlessness

Give him Belichick's Hoodie

...

Essentially hire Bill Belichick. The dude has been able to do what he's done for 15ish years missing the playoffs only once or twice, finding talent from other teams that work well in his system at cheaper and bargain prices, finding diamonds in the rough and turning them into pro bowlers/all-pros, replacing guys that leave with other guys who do just as well or better, have a vast coaching tree of other coaches who don't do anything wherever they go to coach because he is obviously the glue that holds it all together, and all of this in the Salary Cap era where money is a hindrance and not an asset. 

Belichick is the GOAT in my opinion even if he cheated on multiple occasions because he just didn't give a fug, not even like he had to cheat in the first place. It's like he got lazy and when he got caught said "that's fine, I'll go all in then just to piss you all off" and then did so without cheating only to become victorious.

[billionairemonk]

surround yourself with talented people

be able to evaluate talent and cut bait quickly when you realize it's not working

be able to adjust and make changes quickly

posses a "go for the throat" killer instinct 

be smart

be able to impart this to your players

always be improving 

oh, and don't give a fug what anyone else thinks

[Bronn]

You have to coach guys up, not necessarily play to your strengths, IMHO. If you try to focus on what you're strong at, you tend to neglect what you need to work on. If you play to your strengths, it also opens you up to be underdeveloped should those strengths turn to weakness, be it by injury or other teams adjusting.

You take the best jobbers you can get to fill your rosters, assemble a good coordinating squad who knows what they are doing in all three phases of the game, and basically game plan the whole season each and every day of the year, offseason or not. You have to know your opponents all the way down from the owner to the water boys.

I think you have to be firm with your players enough that they respect you, but encourage them to bring out their best traits as well as demanding they do the same from their teammates. Let them be themselves, but make sure they know that, without them doing their part the right way, the nuts and bolts start to fall off the machine. They also need to be taught adaptability.

I can't really call it when it comes to who the best head coach would be, but Belichick is up there. I've always respected what the Patriots have done in the modern era, because they do it with draft picks, over-the-hill or under the radar FA signings, similar offensive and defensive strategy year to year, and even when guys go down with injury. I haven't checked the numbers, but I would wager they don't break the bank either. They mix vets with young guys who everyone knows after a few years but didn't necessarily when they get brought in.

I think Rivera has some good qualities. I wish he showed more emotion, or got a little more smart-assy with some situations (I think he's improved here, actually.) I feel like he should fight more for his players when it comes to personnel decisions (at least more than I currently perceive.) I think he's stubborn sometimes, and that doesn't help us out.

But I will say this, I think we've got a good coach if you look at the bigger picture. I just think most of our problems start with offensive coordinator, injuries, GM, and ownership, in that order.