R.I.P. **** MacPherson

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Michael_ Gee said:
Was Pats' coach in 1991-1992. Great guy to cover. Teams were terrible, though.
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Someone ran a story back then on NFL head coaches who were decent guys and managed to maintain some semblance of a work-life balance, and my memory is that MacPherson was on the list, along with Marv Levy and a few others. It wasn't a long list.

Michael, you'd be better qualified to comment on this, but I didn't think he did a bad job with the Pats given the talent he had to work with and the franchise's ownership instability at the time.
 
You're right, Mac never had a chance. The fact that he wrung a 6-10 season out of that horrible 1991 team was astonishing. He had a crap bag of quarterbacks to work with. The team changed owners at least once during those years.

Sean McDonough mentioned on Bob Ryan's podcast a couple weeks ago that Mac was in rough shape. RIP.
 
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Bronco77 said:
Someone ran a story back then on NFL head coaches who were decent guys and managed to maintain some semblance of a work-life balance, and my memory is that MacPherson was on the list, along with Marv Levy and a few others. It wasn't a long list.

Michael, you'd be better qualified to comment on this, but I didn't think he did a bad job with the Pats given the talent he had to work with and the franchise's ownership instability at the time.
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He did a great job his first year as wicked said, working with nothing to achieve mediocrity with Hugh Millen at QB, but the next year it all wore off and they collapsed. Actually, the ownership switch, in which James Orthwein (Anheuser-Busch money) replaced Victor Kiam (no money to speak of, plus an idiot), was a big break for the franchise. Everybody thought Orthwein would move the club to St. Louis, but he was true to his promise to find a local owner and he sold to Bob Kraft.
 
I couldn't remember if Fran Murray "owned" the team or not during that time. I know he brought in Orthwein.
 
To sum up his Pats' experience: Wearing a tie on the sidelines does not make you Lombardi.
 
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