
The fine folks at Yellow Chair Sports, amused by the Norv Turner retreads of the world, have put together this handy flowchart of NFL coaching changes. It's awfully inventive — you probably need to see the large version to truly get it all — and features both an extended middle finger and Wayne Fontes, two concepts that are not inherently dissimilar.
All Roads Lead To Wayne Fontes [Yellow Chair Sports]











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That reminds me. Good lord, there's some bad coaches out there.
It's like that chart in the show on Showtime, "The L Word". Not that I watch a show where hot chicks kiss and finger-fuck.
It's not what you know, but who you know, evidently.
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Keep them black folk out of coaching, tenured establishment! Old white men hold the key to unlocking the game of pro football.
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There should be one of these for bloggers.
I can't tell where Art Shell goes. Is that Dante's Inferno?
The White Guy Recycling Project
The lack of Jim Haslett officially makes him the red headed step child.
Has anyone seen Fontes since Bill Ford disappeared him? Is he out hunting bin Laden or something?
Someone finally put the Good Old Boy Coaches Network in graphic form.
+1 for John Belushi to rep college stops.
I can't tell where Art Shell goes.
In his pants if the nurse doesn't move quickly enough.
"Look at the bulge in Holmgren's pants." That made me laugh.
@LingeringBursitis: Ray Rhodes is on there - if that isn't enough to keep blacks out of coaching, then I don't know what is.
Denny Green got his ass crowned right off the chart, it looks like -- probably to the same place Art Shell went.
I'm pretty sure this is pulled directly from Al Saunders' playbook.
Best use of Deadspin Widescreen yet.
"Look at the bulge in Holmgren's pants."
Wow, that's not something that needed to be pointed out to me.
The hell's that grey blob between Bobby Ross and Fontes?
@Tuffy: the other pages of the playbook are filled with 799 different versions of the same chart.
I love Belichecks middle finger to the Jets...
Colors! *clap clap* And a widescreen shot that doesn't make me want to stab my own face!
Sorry for the threadjack
Liverpool just scored against Barcelona and after his equalizing header Bellamy's (the guy who beat up his teammate with a golf club)celebration included a golf shot.
It's a West Coast offense play.
Ahh Wayne Fontes, you mock, but remember, who was the last Lions' head coach to guide the team to a playoff victory? You guessed it, it was the Big Buck!
fuck, I totally forgot that Dan Reeves coached the Giants. My brain must have blocked it out.
Shit, beat again.
Wayne Fontes wants you to smell his fingers.
@Diddly: Good point. I was going to mention the appearance of Herm and Dungy, but we all know they're not really black. Sweater vests?
I see the FOX logo, but no arrow to Steelers' head man Omar Epps.
How can you have an NFL chart without the Stillirs?
And Ditka (!)
Oh, Wayne Fontes we hardly knew thee!
Wayne Fontes legacy only grows as the years go by. If a coach led the Lions to multiple playoff appearnces these day they'd erect a statue for him outside Ford Field.
@badbabu: He went to Army.
And I would like to see a chart showing the places assistant coaches have interviewed and not been hired.
Cocaine Wayne where have you gone?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEED7163...
It's like looking at the Physical Education Department page of the 1993 Mattoon High School yearbook.
@throwbot: How can you forget Reeves at the Giants? He was the previous saviour there...
Looks like a tangled web of six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
And to all the commentors on this site, you are 3 degrees from KB. How? I was dating Sedgwicks neice for a bit. When she stopped calling I watched "Footloose" to cheer myself up.
@TheStarterWife: Yeah, for whatever reason I forgot about his time there, he did have that one good season. In my mind it went:
Parcells -> Ray Handley -> ??? -> Fassell -> Current Dickhead Coach
Is that an Animal House picture next to Dennis Erickson?
Do interim head coaching stints not count? Because Dick Jauron would like to get some credit for the post-Mooch era in Detroit.
This is actually a map of the route Dominic Rhodes took to get home the other night.
Too soon?
Actually, it's awesome that the Steelers logo was of no use to this exercise, 'cause they aren't in the coaching revolving door/retread business.
Also, they should have had a bunch of those coach's arrows pointing toward that diet product that's Hot Right Now among seemingly all of the middle-aged NFL alumni.
My friends and I concocted a similar web, but it contained every girl that we had hooked up with linked to every guy that they had. Pretty terrifying.
The Steelers aren't retreading coaches, but think of how many of Bill Cowher's coordinators went on to head coaching gigs:
Dom Capers (twice)
Dick LeBeau
Mike Mularkey
Ken Whisenhunt
Chan Gailey
Bill Cowher should be a hub on this chart.
Also, speaking of retreads, am I the only one here who remembers Chuck Noll hiring former Jets head coach Joe Walton as his offensive coordinator around 1990? Walton had a 700-page playbook before Al Saunders did. Poor Bubby Brister didn't know who to throw it to, so he chucked it to the defense. The Walton era was short-lived, but memorable.
@Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Price: Yup, repping coaches who head to the NCAAs.
This stunt casting is the only way you'll get me to see the Family Circus movie.
@Seymour Scagnetti:
Liverpool just put another one up: Bellamy assisting Riise. 2-1
Then Joe Walton headed to an assignment better suited to his dotage: the football machine at Robert Morris University.
@GorgeForeman: Apparently karaoke golfing is just a method of training.
what the hell is thu guy with the anti-tank missle next to...who is that???
@scumdog0331: Bobby Ross, former Lions, Chargers, and now former Army coach.
@TheStarterWife: By savior, do you mean replacing a coach that had a .438 winning percentage with an overhyped coach that produced a .484 winning percentage? Just want to make sure we're on the same page here.
+10 Tuffy
--Bill Keene
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