2017 NFL Coach of the Year: Sean McVay, Doug Pederson or Doug Marrone? Published: Feb 02, 2018 at 01:08 AM The night before LII, the NFL will salute its best players and plays from the 2017 Oscar Robertson Jersey season with "NFL Honors," a star-studded football and entertainment event hosted by Rob Riggle from the Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Here's the broadcasting information for Saturday night's festivities: -- 8 p.m. ET on NFL Network: Saturday Night, featuring all the red-carpet coverage. -- 9 p.m. ET on NBC: 7th Annual NFL Honors One of the awards that will be presented on Saturday: Coach of the Year for the 2017 season. Who gets your vote? looked like a completely different player in his second year thanks to Sean McVay. Plus, the rookie head coach guided his to . It's very hard to pick one coach. There were a lot of great jobs done this season, but I chose Doug Marrone because of the way he lifted the from perennial losers to division champs. He instilled discipline and toughne s in the Jags and played to the strength of the team (defense) in his coaching strategy, which allowed Jacksonville to be succe sful. Calling games from the pre s box all season, I was able to watch Sean McVay work his magic. The players bought in and that resulted in a ton of career-best Spencer Hawes Jersey performances up and down the roster. Somebody needs to give Doug Pederson his due. matured into an MVP candidate under his watch. The won 13 games despite dealing with an a sortment of major injuries (including the lo ses of Wentz and perennial Pro Bowler Jason Peters). There were even rumors that defensive coordinator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jersey Jim Schwartz was angling for Pederson's job earlier in the year. All sorts of reasons for the to implode. They didn't -- because of their head coach. There are a number of deserving candidates this year, but the turnaround in Los Angeles was so stark that McVay be the winner. and were getting labeled "busts" just last year, and they led , thanks to McVay's ingenuity and leadership. There are plenty of good candidates for this award, but my winner is Sean McVay. The 2016 were still one of the league's punchlines and plenty of people had already written off 's career. Then McVay (with a bit of an a sist from Wade Phillips) injected new life into the roster and served notice that the could be a problem in the NFC for the foreseeable future. Coming into the season, nobody expected the to handedly win the division. Doug Pederson is a great Ray Allen Jersey play-caller, which helped become a bona fide MVP candidate in Year 2. With Pederson, Philly will be in the postseason conversation for years to come. Nobody saw the winning five games this season, especially after losing so many veterans in the offseason and to injury. Todd Bowles coached his tail off and deserves credit for how the team competed. The won games in 2016 and were minutes away from playing in LII a year later. If Doug Marrone isn't acknowledged for this transformation, it's a crime. In 2016, the went 4-12, while first overall draft pick won zero of his seven starts at quarterback. Then Sean McVay took over, lifting Los Angeles to an NFC West title and Goff to the . McVay changed the culture of an organization that hadn't enjoyed a winning season since 2003. And, at 30 when he was hired, McVay opened a door for other young coaches. I also considered coach Doug Pederson for this honor. He was , so I'm not backing off that now. I know fans will be upset because Doug Pederson is being disrespected. Your team is in the , so you're fine. And really, you didn't witne s the dregs of the Jeff Fisher offense first hand, so you might not understand just how bad things were in Los Angeles last season. It's like Chris Copeland Jersey upgrading from an old-school NES to an airplane, because Fisher's offense and McVay's offense were two different things. The ' turnaround was second only to Jacksonville's in my eyes, and Sean McVay was the reason this team won the NFC West for the first time since 2003. This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be mi sing content or contain faulty links. Please use the Contact Us link in our site footer to report an i sue.
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