Who are the head coaches that play call

Sean Payton, Andy Reid.

Kitchens, and the Packers new coach

Mcvay, Shanahan, Pederson, O’Brien, Arians

After the Monday night fiasco, in answer to my question, Paul Patino told our post game audience that 14 NFL head coaches call their own plays, and his point was a philosophical disagreement with this practice. I don't know who they are, and obviously some are somewhat successful doing this. Parcells did not, except I think for some special circumstances such as a fake punt.

Paul Dottino...sorry about that

I am definitely in the camp that believes head coaches should not call the plays and are best left to an Offensive Coordinator.

Yet, when coaches took play calling away from Quarterbacks I had been in the camp that Quarterbacks should call their own plays. Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Charlie Conerly, Y A Tittle, Joe Namath, Fran Tarkenton, Sonny Jurgenson I believe called their own plays. I think Paul Brown and Tom Landry were the innovator coaches that called plays.

Including Reid himself, it also includes:

- Pat Shurmur
- Doug Pederson
- Matt Nagy
- Brad Childress

all five of these coaches call their own plays. They've all been maligned as poor clock managers and unbalanced. There is 1 championship between them. Reid is a legend choke artist. Shurmur & Childress are proven losers. Nagy is under siege. Even Pederson still gets shit.

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If just under half of the NFL coaches call their own plays, and they range in effectiveness from Super Bowl winners to perenial losers, I think it's safe to say that there's no definative answer as to whether it's a good idea for a HC to call his own plays.

However, the idea that Shurmur should give up what he's presumably good at (play calling) so that he can focus on what he's not good at (in-game decisions and clock management) seems a bit odd.

I'd rather the Giants used an assistant coach who WAS good at those tasks to at least be in Shurmur's ear during the games and let Shurmur focus on calling the plays.

Shurmur shuld succeed or fail by doing things HIS way and not by how others think he should do his job.

That make GOOD play calls

In comment 14667504 mattlawson said:

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That make GOOD play calls

Probably the one who have the best players who can actually execute the plays called.

Which coaches know how to win football games

In comment 14667486 Jim in Tampa said:

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If just under half of the NFL coaches call their own plays, and they range in effectiveness from Super Bowl winners to perenial losers, I think it's safe to say that there's no definative answer as to whether it's a good idea for a HC to call his own plays. However, the idea that Shurmur should give up what he's presumably good at (play calling) so that he can focus on what he's not good at (in-game decisions and clock management) seems a bit odd. I'd rather the Giants used an assistant coach who WAS good at those tasks to at least be in Shurmur's ear during the games and let Shurmur focus on calling the plays. Shurmur shuld succeed or fail by doing things HIS way and not by how others think he should do his job.

I don't understand why all teams don't have a clock management guy on the sideline who can at least tell the HC what analytics say you should do and why. it would be a pretty cheap hire that could make a difference in one or more games per year.

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You might be joking but it would be better, IMO