Arizona Cardinals' Kliff Kingsbury's Top 5 NFL coach? 2022 NFL head coach ranking slammed
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Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury is a Top 5 coach in the NFL according to one site's 2022 NFL head coach rankings.
Pro Football Focus, in its ranking of NFL coaches for 2022 that came out on Monday, had Kingsbury ranked No. 4 in the NFL.
Only the New England Patriots' Bill Belichick (No. 1), the Baltimore Ravens' John Harbaugh (No. 2), and the Kansas City Chiefs Andy Reid (No. 3) were ranked ahead of the Cardinals coach.
Those three were in the first tier of the rankings, identified as "Hall of Fame coaches."
Kingsbury led off Tier 2 of the rankings, the "good coaches."
Of Kingsbury, Conor McQuiston wrote: "Outside of quarterback Kyler Murray and wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, Kingsbury has not had much to work with in terms of offensive talent in the desert, yet he's still managed to make the offense hum. Unfortunately, Kingsbury has left much to be desired on the defensive side of the ball thus far."
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Nine coaches joined Kingsbury in that second tier, with the Seattle Seahawks' Pete Carroll coming in at No. 5, followed by the Green Bay Packers' Matt LaFleur, the San Francisco 49ers' Kyle Shanahan, the Tennessee Titans' Mike Vrabel, the Indianapolis Colts' Frank Reich, the Dallas Cowboys' Mike McCarthy, the Los Angeles Rams' Sean McVay, the LA Chargers' Brandon Staley and the Pittsburgh Steelers' Mike Tomlin.
How did PFF.com come up with its ranking?
McQuiston explained his methodology as follows: "Ranking NFL head coaches from an analytics perspective is a Sisyphean task for one simple reason: It's easy to win games with good players. Barring a calamity or an incredibly poor surrounding roster, most competent NFL coaches would still manage to be competitive for a playoff spot with Patrick Mahomes as their starting quarterback. Using this idea in ranking the current NFL head coaches, we try to do two things: 1) properly account for a team’s talent level, and 2) predict something less volatile than wins. We do this by creating a multilevel model where the fixed effects are the salaries of each starter on both sides of the ball, including an indicator for if the player is a rookie, and the target is points scored or allowed in a season. A starter is defined as the player who took the most snaps at their position, filtering out key injuries. This was altered for several positions, such as the top three players being considered for wide receiver, cornerback, safety and linebacker, as well as the top two players qualifying for guard, tackle, edge and interior defender. The coaches are the random effect, giving us an estimate for their contribution to points scored or allowed. We can then use Pythagorean wins to estimate how many games the coach would win with an average team, defined as a team scoring and allowing 348 points in a season. This was the average mark for all teams between the 2017-2021 seasons."
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Social media slammed Kliff Kingsbury's ranking in the Pro Football Focus list:
Any list that has Kliff Kingsbury as a top-5 head coach in the NFL, but doesn't have Mike Tomlin in the top 10, is purposefully trying to troll you.
— Luke Easterling (@LukeEasterling) June 7, 2022
Kliff Kingsbury and Zac Taylor would be the headscratchers here
— Austin Purkeypile (@austinpurk) June 6, 2022
KLIFF KINGSBURY
— WBOS (@ima_shmeeb) June 6, 2022
THEY HAVE KLIFF “My offense completely falls apart by week 9 because I don’t have the ability to make mid season adjustments, and my passing concepts boil down to Kyler please save me” KINGSBURY AS THE 4TH BEST COACH IN THE NFL???
— ATLNiner (@PapaStew80) June 7, 2022
ok but i just want to point out that you have kliff kingsbury ranked fourth
— Steven Ruiz (@theStevenRuiz) June 6, 2022
These are really, really bad once you get past the top 3…
Kliff Kingsbury at 4 and Mike McCarthy at 10 standout. Kliff wouldn’t even be in my top-25.
No Sean McVay? Just won a SB!
And the Mike Tomlin disrespect is crazy to me. The Steelers haven’t had a losing season since 2003 pic.twitter.com/kdD2v765xk— Dan Schneier (@DanSchneierNFL) June 7, 2022
In what world is Kliff Kingsbury the 4th best coach in the NFL. He's not even top 2 in his own division. https://t.co/BfoLKmuMK6
— Chris Rosvoglou (@RosvoglouReport) June 7, 2022
Look.
I’m not one to crap on people. We all have opinions.
However, having a top 10 NFL coaches list that doesn’t feature Mike Tomlin but DOES feature Mike McCarthy and KLIFF KINGSBURY AT FOUR is flat out God awful and incorrect. pic.twitter.com/S0GfhogdQi— Jarrett Bailey (@JBaileyNFL) June 7, 2022
Did Kliff Kingsbury's parents do this? https://t.co/CMxlSVF8j3
— Matt Verderame (@MattVerderame) June 7, 2022
Kliff Kingsbury has a losing record in the NFL 😂 https://t.co/DCRP6CQTjc
— Allan Bell (@AllanBell247) June 7, 2022
Kingsbury and McCarthy are bottom 10. https://t.co/RcBRLXL2R7
— Patty G (@PGreiner29) June 7, 2022
Kingsbury at 4 is a war crime https://t.co/jA3IhQs6TO
— Phil (@Psizzle22684) June 7, 2022
Mike Tomlin:
—154-85; never had losing season
—SB Champ; 2 SBs; 17 playoff wins
—8-6 w/Mason R./Duck Hodges
#12 ranked coach by PFF
Kliff Kingsbury:
—24-24-1; only 1 winning season
—Never won a playoff game
—35-40 NCAA record
#4 ranked coach by PFF
The disrespect never ends. https://t.co/I80o0va0Du— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) June 7, 2022
What in God’s name is Kliff Kingsbury doing here?? Over McVay and Tomlin?! Top 5?!? https://t.co/4xuI9ejJ4J
— Max Toscano (@maxtoscano1) June 7, 2022
Where do you think Kingsbury should be ranked among NFL head coaches?
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