Since their promotion to the Premier League almost two years ago, the Potters have often been criticised for their direct approach and last week at Wolves fans started booing the long-throws of Rory Delap.
However, Coyle - a known advocate of flowing football - believes people should stop labelling Stoke a 'long-ball' team and start giving Tony Pulis' side more credit.
"I think they get tagged with a name that is disrespectful to them," Coyle said.
"Yes, they have attributes and strengths that they play to, but equally they are not adverse to getting the ball down and passing and moving it.
"(Glenn) Whelan, (Liam) Lawrence, (Ricardo) Fuller - these are very good, gifted footballers and I think Stoke are certainly far better than the name-tag that they get."
Stoke's tactics have undoubtedly proved successful, with the team going into tomorrow's clash with Wanderers at the Britannia Stadium lying 10th in the table and looking well on course to better the impressive 12th-placed finish they managed last season in their debut Premier League campaign.
Bolton, on the other hand, are still not safe from the threat of relegation and find themselves five points above the drop zone with four games to go.
Wanderers lifted themselves out of the bottom three and had an eight-point cushion in March following a sequence of three wins from four league games.
Since then they have lost four in a row, but given that those defeats came against Everton, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Chelsea, Coyle feels his team have made fairly decent progress overall.
"I think you need to look at the bigger picture," Coyle said.
"We were in the bottom three going into those eight games and I think if you had looked at them and said coming out of that period with four games to go, you will have taken yourself five points clear of the bottom three, I think we would have been doing somersaults.
"But within that we also know that we could have picked up more points along the way."
Coyle certainly felt his team could have taken more from their last outing, Tuesday's 1-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge, where the manager claimed match official Lee Probert should have awarded Wanderers two penalties for apparent handballs in the area by Didier Drogba and John Terry.
"I like Lee Probert and get on very well with him," said Coyle. "I asked him at the game (about the handball incidents) and he was very courteous.
"I felt he was probably let down in the game by his assistants, as simple as that.
"I thought he refereed the game fine, but they were two major decisions and they are not up for debate. They were clear penalties and they weren't given."
He continued: "We made a point at the time, which I think is important to do. I think if you don't say anything about it, then you are not protecting the interests of your football club, so I made my point and I have really tried to move on from there."
A controversial incident from earlier in the season led to Bolton captain Kevin Davies being given a suspended fine by the Football Association yesterday.
Davies was found guilty of improper conduct following comments he made after the team's goalless draw against Fulham in February.
The forward had what would have been a late winner ruled out by referee Mark Clattenburg at the Reebok Stadium and following the game suggested the official had "something personal" against him.
Coyle felt his team were hard done by on that occasion, and asked after the Chelsea match if he thought smaller clubs were not getting decisions against bigger ones, he said: "I think people will look at that and that will certainly be their perception of it.
"Certainly since I came to Bolton Wanderers, I can't recall too many decisions that we have had - actually, none, and I can recall plenty that we've not.
"You only need to look back at the Fulham game at home when Kevin Davies scored a terrific header a minute from the end.
"Mr Clattenburg ruled it out for a two-handed push and it certainly wasn't ever the case, and then Kevin gets into bother for comments he made after the game.
"It was like a double whammy and I think there are a lot of things that have gone against us."
Source: Team Talk
Source: Team Talk