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The Kevin Stefanski: Two-Time Coach of the Year Thread

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Grade the signing

  • A+ -Awesome Analytics Alignment!

    Votes: 55 30.9%
  • A - Good choice moving forward

    Votes: 53 29.8%
  • B - Better than the other options

    Votes: 20 11.2%
  • C - Could work out I guess

    Votes: 30 16.9%
  • D - Browns done put their foot in it again, but at least he looks good on TV

    Votes: 9 5.1%
  • F - A failure on every level

    Votes: 11 6.2%

  • Total voters
    178
Only coach to beat the Steelers in Heinz field, while coaching from his basement!
 
And based on the voting, that would be correct. He garnered 25 of 50 first place votes.

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Just grave dug some old Freddie threads to take a drunken reflection on how we felt at the end of his year. He won us over with his belly but quickly lost us with his brain.

Stefanski deserves a thread revival bump because i've never felt this comfortable with the direction of our offense going into a pre-season before. I was too young to care when we were good but I've been on this wagon since 1999 and feeling this relaxed is just a strange feeling.

I'm excited to see what new wrinkles we work in - hope to see Chubb and Hunt worked into the passing game much more. Would've liked to have seen them in the same backfield more but I have this feeling Stefanski is almost delaying that intentionally. Fuck it just feels good to feel like your head coach is much smarter than other coaches in the league, and most importantly, you, for once.
 
Just grave dug some old Freddie threads to take a drunken reflection on how we felt at the end of his year. He won us over with his belly but quickly lost us with his brain.

Stefanski deserves a thread revival bump because i've never felt this comfortable with the direction of our offense going into a pre-season before. I was too young to care when we were good but I've been on this wagon since 1999 and feeling this relaxed is just a strange feeling.

I'm excited to see what new wrinkles we work in - hope to see Chubb and Hunt worked into the passing game much more. Would've liked to have seen them in the same backfield more but I have this feeling Stefanski is almost delaying that intentionally. Fuck it just feels good to feel like your head coach is much smarter than other coaches in the league, and most importantly, you, for once.

I haven't felt this good about an offense going into a new season since Lindy Infante.
 
Has anyone else gone through the rabbit hole venture of wondering where this franchise would be if Dorsey hired Stefanski (or Arians) instead of Freddie? I can't help but think Stefanski wouldn't be as good as he is with Berry and DePo, and that we'd be still be hovering between 6-10 and 9-7 for a few years until we retool the FO again...
 
Has anyone else gone through the rabbit hole venture of wondering where this franchise would be if Dorsey hired Stefanski (or Arians) instead of Freddie? I can't help but think Stefanski wouldn't be as good as he is with Berry and DePo, and that we'd be still be hovering between 6-10 and 9-7 for a few years until we retool the FO again...

It probably never would've happened in the first place. Dorsey intentionally hired Kitchens to maintain control because he knew he could be in Kitchen's ear due to his inexperience. It was a power play. He gambled and he lost.

FWIW, I thought Dorsey was a decent talent evaluator, great with our players, and obviously helped shape a much more professional culture. He was one of our best GMs in years but his hubris was his downfall.
 
It probably never would've happened in the first place. Dorsey intentionally hired Kitchens to maintain control because he knew he could be in Kitchen's ear due to his inexperience. It was a power play. He gambled and he lost.

FWIW, I thought Dorsey was a decent talent evaluator, great with our players, and obviously helped shape a much more professional culture. He was one of our best GMs in years but his hubris was his downfall.

I know Reid was hired before Dorsey, but i am not sure it was a power play to hire Kitchen. Many thought he could do the job including myself. I think he just made a bad decision and when he refused to fire Kitchens after a year he lost his job too.

Dorsey is a good talent evaluator, but it appears Berry is the real deal all around top 5 GM. It doesnt make sense really, because does anyone know how old Berry is without looking it up? Yep he just turned 34.

Insane how young and how good Berry actually is. Think about this, Berry is still learning on the job. He will get better. Crazy to think.
 
I know Reid was hired before Dorsey, but i am not sure it was a power play to hire Kitchen. Many thought he could do the job including myself. I think he just made a bad decision and when he refused to fire Kitchens after a year he lost his job too.

Dorsey is a good talent evaluator, but it appears Berry is the real deal all around top 5 GM. It doesnt make sense really, because does anyone know how old Berry is without looking it up? Yep he just turned 34.

Insane how young and how good Berry actually is. Think about this, Berry is still learning on the job. He will get better. Crazy to think.

I just remember reading that was one of the reasons Dorsey was allegedly canned. His ego was creating friction amongst FO guys specifically DePo. Whether that was his actual intention re: maintaining lordship over Kitchens - the way he had interacted with Freddie seemed to cause enough disruption and distrust amongst top executives which led to Dorsey being seen in a different light.

I definitely wouldn't be surprised to learn that Dorsey and DePo went to war a lot when discussing draft picks and free agents. Thank god Haslam finally learned from his past mistakes but I will always be thankful for what Dorsey did for this organization. Canning both Hue and Haley in one fell swoop took took stones and it worked to perfection. We aren't where we are today without his contributions.
 
I just remember reading that was one of the reasons Dorsey was allegedly canned. His ego was creating friction amongst FO guys specifically DePo. Whether that was his actual intention re: maintaining lordship over Kitchens - the way he had interacted with Freddie seemed to cause enough disruption and distrust amongst top executives which led to Dorsey being seen in a different light.

I definitely wouldn't be surprised to learn that Dorsey and DePo went to war a lot when discussing draft picks and free agents. Thank god Haslam finally learned from his past mistakes but I will always be thankful for what Dorsey did for this organization. Canning both Hue and Haley in one fell swoop took took stones and it worked to perfection. We aren't where we are today without his contributions.

He never used DePo, he thought DePo was a waste of time. Berry being the computer Geek he is (he has a masters in computer science from Harvard, not just an undergrad), Berry LOVES DePo and analytics.

So you are not wrong, that was another thing that led to his demise. Remember it was DePo that wanted to hire Stefanski based on analytics and his past accomplishments, and the Haslams decided to listen to DePo after they canned Dorsey. Then they did the GM search. I thought coach before GM was backwards to be honest, but hey what do I know, lol.
 
I don't want folks to unnecessarily join me down the rabbit hole, but the exercise wasn't a *why* didn't Dorsey hire seone else, but a "what if" he hired someone else?
 

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