While you may not necessarily have the chance or want to ultimately go with their recommendations, stroking their ego never hurts. If they recommend X, Y, or Z, take their recommendations. If they tell you to draft a player, go ahead and agree to do so. Definitely try to stroke their egos as much as possible by taking their advice. ![]() The stronger their numbers, the more they will cost - but money is at the heart of winning, sometimes, and a strong coaching staff is at the very core of a winning football team.Īt meetings and at other times, your coaching staff will make various recommendations to you, whether it's about your play book, draft choices, keeping or cutting players, strategy (et cetera). If you have gaps in your coaching staff and/or want to make some changes, check out the potential coaches and try to get the ones you want on board. Generally, coaching staffs that have good comradery and have been together for a while in some capacity (even if your current head coach and current offensive coordinator, for instance, were once coordinators together in a different city) nets you an automatic advantage. Therefore, you'll want to make the right choices. ![]() The men that surround you will make you look good or bad in the eyes of your team's owner it's that simple. On the flip side, picking a team that's really good can potentially have the exact opposite affect, where they bring you some wins and glory in the early-going only to fall apart in seasons of the future. Therefore, picking a bad team (like how we picked the Jets) can actually be more rewarding several seasons into the future, since it takes real turn-around knowledge and expertise to make a perennially losing team into the exact opposite. In fact, you can really work up your status as head coach by playing more than one season. The team you choose will, at your approval and wanting, be able to continue through seasons of the future. NFL Head Coach, like the Madden franchise from EA, isn't a one season ordeal. After all, it's only fake money you're being offered. Although different teams will make you offers and your choice team might not make you the best (like they did to us in regards to the Jets), pick which team you want. Picking a team (like the Steelers) because they are good without having any familiarity with the team will make your job more difficult and less fun. ![]() Picking a team you're familiar with, or your favorite team (even if your favorite team is the Jets or Texans, for instance) will make for a better playing experience. However, we implore you to pick the team you want to pick, without worrying too much about other tangibles, such as how they did last year and how they are predicted to do in 2006. Taking the Jets, considering their lack of fortune in the 2005 NFL season, was a bad choice if you want to win some games. The author of this guide, Colin Moriarty, is a diehard Jets fan and so he chose the New York Jets as his team. We here at IGN Guides have some differences as far as our favorite NFL team is concerned. There is no rush, and if you're a true NFL fan, you won't mind making all of these decisions for your team anyway. This is especially important considering your moves, once you've saved your game, are permanent and irreversible. Really try and take your time (unless you notice it's a timed feature, such as when you draft players or are in gameday situations - see the "Gameday" section of the guide for more on the latter) and make the right moves. The game might be a little monotonous and slow-going, but that's part of the beauty of NFL Head Coach you can decide even the most minute details of how your team functions and operates. ![]() Instead of tirelessly listing paragraph after paragraph, however, we've decided to give you 10 tips that'll help you along. Hence, that's basically most of the game. In this section, "Coaching Tips," we'll outline some things you should and shouldn't do in the non-gameplay aspects of the game - that is to say, in parts of the game where you're not in a preseason, season, or playoff game setting. In "Football 101," we caught you up on some of the basic (yet finer) points of NFL football.
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