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23 Oct 2010
ESPN: Do Certain Coaches Cause Penalties?
Some people think a disciplinarian coach like Tom Coughlin helps a team to commit fewer penalties. Often, the same people think a laid-back coach like Wade Phillips leads to a less-disciplined team and more penalties. Are these things true?
4 comments, Last at 24 Oct 2010, 9:22am by Nate Dunlevy
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Re: ESPN: Do Certain Coaches Cause Penalties?
Penalties like holding and pass interference probably shouldn't be considered as a measure of a team's discipline, right?
Re: ESPN: Do Certain Coaches Cause Penalties?
Your premise is flawed. Coughlin gets grief for penalties all the time, probably *because* he is supposed to be such a hard-ass.
See, e.g., this google search that took less than a minute to come up with.
http://bit.ly/c7fPXt
Re: ESPN: Do Certain Coaches Cause Penalties?
Do they penalize coaches for punching June Jones on the sidelines?
Dungy/Edwards
I find the Herm/Dungy connection interesting. Considering that they are best friends and coached closely together in Tampa, it's pretty clear that there is something that they did in order to create discipline.
Personality certainly doesn't play into it. Dungy's book made it clear that Herm was the heavy and Tony operated with a lighter touch.
Philosophy would seem to be more at work here than personality.