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Ladies and gentlemen, for the last time: this is professional sports. What wins in professional sports is professional athletes making plays. Put Peyton Manning on this team right now and we go minimum 11-5 and are a super bowl contender. I dont give a crap who the coach is, just get out of the way and let the professional athletes win you the games.
Coaching in the NFL is so overrated and is a freaking easy excuse for why a team is bad. The route trees are the same. The progressions similar. Sure there are nuances here and there and yes some coaching staffs are better than others, but give me players. PLAYERS!! Cleveland sucks for 4 decades and hires Chud for one year, and he's gone. Do you really think it will be any different with brand XYZ coaching that team unless the talent and QB get there?
I would ask this question to all of you that think if we had Cowher or Gruden or Jesus Effing Christmas coaching us...........
Why have ZERO head coaches in NFL history won a super bowl with his NEXT team after winning one with the previous team?
Its almost comical how we think this coaching thing is our answer. Hell, Wanny could have taken us to a super bowl if we had a QB then who could make a play in crunch time. WE would likely be in the playoffs NOW if Tanny hits Wallace deep last Sunday to go ahead 14-0 - we would have never looked back. Instead, another missed opportunity and another game we cant make a play. Tanny overthrows by 5 yards. This league, just like the NBA and MLB and NHL is about MAKING PLAYS. Who makes plays? The best players consistently make plays and make them at times that WIN games. WE have players that consistently FAIL to make plays up and down the roster. It cannot be overcome. Well, it can be if you have Peyton Manning at QB, or Tom Brady, but a pro bowl punter, center, corner and def end are NOT enough to vercome a blatant lack of playmaking up and down. Missed blocks, missed assignments, key penalties, missed tackles, turnovers, lack of 3rd down conversions etc will all doom a team over 17 weeks. We just saw it all, and some games (8 to be exact) we overcame these errors, barely.
To get to the promised land takes :
1. commitment to a philosophy for your football program - a foundation
2. effective leadership at top levels of organization
3. leadership from within a pro team - vets who drive the culture and demand accountability from all 53
4. serious TALENT acquisition at all positions to meet the team's core philosophy - then the talent goes out and INDIVIDUALLY win their battles to allow the team to win theirs
5. a bit of lightning in the bottle - the stars align and talent meets preparation meets commitment meets work ethic meets opportunity
Will a new O-coord really get us there next year? Not if we don't get serious talent and this talent performs. Not unless Tanny takes a big step and starts making more chunk plays consistently. Not if we don't have a running back who can convert a 3rd and one. Not if we dont get inside linebackers who can range sideline to sideline and make plays all over the field.
This is about talent performing. You can sit and coach up crap all day long, but at the end of the day its still just crap. Why are the Miami Heat 26-8 and the NBA defending champs, while the Sacramento Kings are 10-21 and floundering ? Maybe if the Kings had Spoelstra was coaching the Kings it would be different. Ok that was dripping with sarcasm. But what would the records look like if Wade and Lebron were on the Kings?
You get the point. This is about talent making plays. We lack it, all over the place. So go and get the noose ready for Sherman, Philbin, Coyle and hell even Rizzo and the rest. But it won't change, just like it hasn't in the past 13 years since we won an effing playoff game. Since then about 8 coaches but what has remained is this: lack of players making plays.
WE have missed on acquiring dynamic playmakers for too long. It looks like another lost year coming, another lost draft. Why we continue to wait is beyond me. ALL ROSS NEEDS TO KNOW IS THIS: PLAYERS MAKING GODDAMM PLAYS.
Coaching in the NFL is so overrated and is a freaking easy excuse for why a team is bad. The route trees are the same. The progressions similar. Sure there are nuances here and there and yes some coaching staffs are better than others, but give me players. PLAYERS!! Cleveland sucks for 4 decades and hires Chud for one year, and he's gone. Do you really think it will be any different with brand XYZ coaching that team unless the talent and QB get there?
I would ask this question to all of you that think if we had Cowher or Gruden or Jesus Effing Christmas coaching us...........
Why have ZERO head coaches in NFL history won a super bowl with his NEXT team after winning one with the previous team?
Its almost comical how we think this coaching thing is our answer. Hell, Wanny could have taken us to a super bowl if we had a QB then who could make a play in crunch time. WE would likely be in the playoffs NOW if Tanny hits Wallace deep last Sunday to go ahead 14-0 - we would have never looked back. Instead, another missed opportunity and another game we cant make a play. Tanny overthrows by 5 yards. This league, just like the NBA and MLB and NHL is about MAKING PLAYS. Who makes plays? The best players consistently make plays and make them at times that WIN games. WE have players that consistently FAIL to make plays up and down the roster. It cannot be overcome. Well, it can be if you have Peyton Manning at QB, or Tom Brady, but a pro bowl punter, center, corner and def end are NOT enough to vercome a blatant lack of playmaking up and down. Missed blocks, missed assignments, key penalties, missed tackles, turnovers, lack of 3rd down conversions etc will all doom a team over 17 weeks. We just saw it all, and some games (8 to be exact) we overcame these errors, barely.
To get to the promised land takes :
1. commitment to a philosophy for your football program - a foundation
2. effective leadership at top levels of organization
3. leadership from within a pro team - vets who drive the culture and demand accountability from all 53
4. serious TALENT acquisition at all positions to meet the team's core philosophy - then the talent goes out and INDIVIDUALLY win their battles to allow the team to win theirs
5. a bit of lightning in the bottle - the stars align and talent meets preparation meets commitment meets work ethic meets opportunity
Will a new O-coord really get us there next year? Not if we don't get serious talent and this talent performs. Not unless Tanny takes a big step and starts making more chunk plays consistently. Not if we don't have a running back who can convert a 3rd and one. Not if we dont get inside linebackers who can range sideline to sideline and make plays all over the field.
This is about talent performing. You can sit and coach up crap all day long, but at the end of the day its still just crap. Why are the Miami Heat 26-8 and the NBA defending champs, while the Sacramento Kings are 10-21 and floundering ? Maybe if the Kings had Spoelstra was coaching the Kings it would be different. Ok that was dripping with sarcasm. But what would the records look like if Wade and Lebron were on the Kings?
You get the point. This is about talent making plays. We lack it, all over the place. So go and get the noose ready for Sherman, Philbin, Coyle and hell even Rizzo and the rest. But it won't change, just like it hasn't in the past 13 years since we won an effing playoff game. Since then about 8 coaches but what has remained is this: lack of players making plays.
WE have missed on acquiring dynamic playmakers for too long. It looks like another lost year coming, another lost draft. Why we continue to wait is beyond me. ALL ROSS NEEDS TO KNOW IS THIS: PLAYERS MAKING GODDAMM PLAYS.
