Comments on: Bucs hire Dave Wannstedt as special teams coach

By: skolvikesskol

skolvikesskol — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:25:25 +0000

MDS, I think the surprise is that Wanny has a job. I think that Wanny is an example of a coach who:

1. The game has passed him by. This is no longer pro-set, balance, non-cap league.

2. He can succeed with extremely talented rosters, but doesn’t have what it makes to make players better and create a scheme that fits his players talents.

3. He is not a good motivator and can’t relate to players. He takes a “sky is falling” / “we are a bad team” approach. He doesn’t demand discipline and perfection from his players.

BTW The “sky is falling” quote is from a Bears defensive player, who played under him. They did not like that approach and did not rally around him. I don’t mean to be a hater, but his body of work speaks for itself.

By: tv426

tv426 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:24:29 +0000

THE worst coach in any sport – for as long as I can remember.
How this guy gets any coaching job at all is a total mystery!

By: believeland1954

believeland1954 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:07:24 +0000

Are there no Division III head coaching job available?

By: tommytd

tommytd — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:46:38 +0000

There goes their SB shot. Color them done!

By: hkdaddyo

hkdaddyo — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:04:51 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He’s doing special teams because nobody else will let him touch the defense or, God forbid, sit in the head coach’s chair. He ruined the Chicago Bears, the Dolphins, Pitt, and he did some fine work ruining the Bills. Look for Tampa’s defense to be playing a lot of short field defense this year. I predict most teams will start at Tampa’s 40. LOL!

By: EJ

EJ — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:50:55 +0000

I was excited hearing that he was going to run the Bills new D. After 4-5 weeks of seeing him struggle, I thought that there must be a good reason why. There is, he is expired as anything more than a position coach.

By: oldbyrd

oldbyrd — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:38:11 +0000

A pure victim of the peter principal. His talent ends here.

By: badintent

badintent — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:34:30 +0000

You guys are too nasty. He’ll make a great head coach in the CFL.He can blame losses on brain freeze,not brain cramps like in the NFL

By: tformation

tformation — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:36:16 +0000

Bears fans have a hard time forgiving Wanny. Trying to remember something positive to say about special teams for the Bears under Wanny, but coming up blank. Might have blocked a punt once in the Wanny era. Maybe. Someone look into this.

By: cherrybop

cherrybop — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:25:07 +0000

This guy was kinda sad at Pitt, but much better than the dude that followed him that skipped town after one year (not including the failed attempted coach hires like the guy convicted of domestic assault).

By: deadeye

deadeye — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:36:21 +0000

He’s still in over his head.

By: nflfan4now

nflfan4now — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:28:00 +0000

Luciano you don’t have a clue if you think anyone would want to hire him as a d-coord anywhere after what he did in Buffalo. If Gailey wasn’t as nice of a guy as he is Wannstat would have been fired after 4 weeks this year, when his defense kept giving up record numbers of points to other teams.
The guy went downhill fast for some reason, from head coach to college coach to coordinators and now special teams coach.
On a side note now I do see the problem minority coaches have. The only reason anyone would hire him as a special teams coach is the good ol’ boys network. This would have been a great job for a young coach on their way up, not a coach on his way out of the business.

By: frankdatank23

frankdatank23 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:24:20 +0000

It took the Bears how long to get out of the hole Wanny dug ? The dolphins are finally creeping out of theirs. He’s a good coach in the right role. (coaching Charles Haley, Ken Norton, Deion Sanders, Darren Woodson,etc.)

By: thevza

thevza — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:19:41 +0000

Wow, talk about a rise and fall. Wannstedt went from hot shot Defensive Coordinator winning Super Bowls with Jimmy Johnson, to Head Coach of storied franchises like the Bears and Dolphins, to now coaching Special Teams for his former employee. Next stop: Jacksonville. Any position.

By: siriusred67

siriusred67 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:07:30 +0000

He might as well try being a special teams coordinator. While he was in Buffalo, he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s incompetent as a defensive coordinator.

By: metalhead65

metalhead65 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:54:07 +0000

well you can say goodbye to any hope of a bucs revival if wannstedt is involved. has there ever been a more overrated coach than him? aside from working with jimmy johnson this guy is a proven loser. after what he did to the bears he should never have gotten another chance but he did and lost every other place he went.

By: dolphins4

dolphins4 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:45:38 +0000

Dave did a great job rebuilding the Pitt football program.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:41:49 +0000

I doubt that Schiano was impressed with Wanstedt’s ST work when he was head coach at Pitt. It’s repayment for Wannstedt hiring him in Chicago,plain and simple.

Hire the best? Right. Hire the guy with a connection to you who needds a job.

By: luciano26

luciano26 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:37:38 +0000

Bill Sheridan is gonna be under a lot of pressure now. Dont know what happened in Buffalo but Wanny is a good defensive coach and it looks like if Sheridan’s defense doesnt do well next year, Schiano has his replacement.

By: nflr92

nflr92 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:24:10 +0000

If he builds the “Buffalo defense” of special teams in Tampa, then Carolina, Atlanta and New Orleans are in line to put up record setting return yardage numbers next year.

Count on a majority of Buc drives starting inside the 10, also.

By: yungbull2012

yungbull2012 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:18:38 +0000

Schiano was the DBs coach under Wannstedt during his time with the Bears. For some odd reason I don’t believe ST coach will be the only role he’ll have with the team.