Captain Dave Poulin
Imaginary Cat
I don't like coaches, generally speaking. I don't like authority. I don't like watching people yell at other people. I think most of them are completely full of shit, ESPECIALLY in meatheadball. But I have to pick somebody. I can't fully explain this without explaining why I didn't pick someone else, and I'll do that at the end of the draft if I remember. Three things I really respect about him, in addition to all the winning:
Lately I have been thinking too much about what could have been had he been able to get along with Jerruh - if he had just been able to croon "Turn around, wide eyes - every now and then I fall apart, and I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever ..." It would have been more than three titles, that's an absolute lock, and that would have created more of a buffer against the f***ing evil empire and the Niners in total championships. Instead, I have had 25 years of pure embarrassment.
Coach - Jimmy Johnson
@CanadianFlyer88
- He understood the draft better than anyone (to that point). They still use his draft value chart when discussing trading picks. The Herschel Walker trade is justly lauded for the highway robbery that it ended up being, but it took a lot of balls to try something like that, too.
- His teams were generally equally impressive on both offense and defense. I'd say a lot of that was down to the hiring of good assistants, but still. I want to have balance.
- He was a masterful, modern communicator. That's what I want more than anything in a coach. I'm desperate for it with the Flyers, or was before I gave in to apathy.
Lately I have been thinking too much about what could have been had he been able to get along with Jerruh - if he had just been able to croon "Turn around, wide eyes - every now and then I fall apart, and I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever ..." It would have been more than three titles, that's an absolute lock, and that would have created more of a buffer against the f***ing evil empire and the Niners in total championships. Instead, I have had 25 years of pure embarrassment.
Coach - Jimmy Johnson
@CanadianFlyer88