The NFL's Dream Coaching Staff

If you could compile the dream NFL coaching staff from the league's current crop of coaches, who'd be chosen? From Bill Belichick to Wade Phillips to Bruce Arians, here's a look at our picks.

Doug Farrar | Jun 7, 2016

The NFL's Dream Coaching Staff /

NFL players are named to Pro Bowl and All-Pro teams every year, but outside of Coach of the Year honors, the men who guide those players to greatness often don’t get enough recognition. To try and right that wrong, here is a dream coaching staff from a pool of current coaches around the league. Some of our choices for coordinators and position coaches are currently head coaches, like Bruce Arians and Dan Quinn. Slotting them into a different role here doesn't take away from the jobs they're currently doing in their leading roles—it's just that there's only one true choice for the top spot here. Without further ado, here are the men who make up our ultimate NFL coaching staff.

Published Jun 7, 2016

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.