New QB Coach Ben McAdoo Is Just Like Andy Reid

by Brandon on Feb 10, 2012 7:02 AM CST in Green Bay Packers News

BBAO: Recalling the Andy Reid model - NFC North Blog - ESPN. It's been mentioned in the comments that Ben McAdoo is following a similar path as Andy Reid did in the 1990s. From the NFC North Blog:

Andy Reid was an offensive lineman during his playing career and coached the Green Bay Packers' tight ends and offensive linemen for five years until then-coach Mike Holmgren switched him to quarterbacks. The move worked for the Packers, Reid and quarterback Brett Favre alike, and it's a model -- coincidental or otherwise -- that current Packers coach Mike McCarthy followed this winter.

I don't exactly know what makes a good coach. Great players don't often make great coaches. And forgettable players sometimes make great ones.

Another good example is Mike McCarthy's career path. After he played tight end in college at Baker University, he worked his way up through the coaching ranks to become a quarterbacks coach with the Chiefs and Packers. Then he became an offensive coordinator, and eventually a head coach. I don't expect the Chiefs thought after they hired him in 1993 to be their offensive quality control assistant that he'd one day become a top offensive mind and a Super Bowl winning head coach.

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Isn’t that what I said?

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by Strohman on Feb 10, 2012 8:07 AM CST reply actions

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by JSOnline Castaway on Feb 10, 2012 8:31 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs

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by TrevorR on Feb 10, 2012 2:36 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs

I think being a great coach is completely independent of being a good or bad player

Good players aren’t necessarily bad coaches and bad players aren’t necessarily good coaches. I was talking to someone about this in baseball the other day. The three best managers of our time in baseball are LaRussa, Cox and Torre. LaRussa was a terrible player, Cox wasn’t very good but it’s basically a crime against humanity that Torre isn’t already in the hall as a player (likely the biggest non-roided/gambling snub not named Raines or Bagwell right now). Football is no different. Even seeing Harbaugh blatantly out coach Singletary for the niners not only doesn’t prove the rule, but doesn’t discount that Singletary was a great positional/assistant coach. It’s a completely separate skill/trait.

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by Buddhasillegitimatechild38 on Feb 10, 2012 10:48 AM CST via mobile reply actions 1 recs

So very true.

Just like being a good position coach or coordinator does NOT mean you will be a good head coach…its a completely different skill set (I usually relate it to the star salesman and there is no guarantee he’ll be a great manager just because he’s a great salesman).

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by TrevorR on Feb 10, 2012 2:38 PM CST up reply actions