tweets (Rams) … 1/21 thru 1/25

zn wrote:

But I think it would be a mistake to move on from Goff, unless we can get Watson.

and that’s never gonna happen.

zn wrote:

Emory Hunt@FBallGameplan
What makes Eric Bienemy such a great coordinator, is his understanding of personnel. He thinks ‘players, not plays’ in critical situations. That’s a very tough thing for many coordinators to grasp

I would have thought every coach would know this.

As I’ve gotten older — and hopefully wiser — I’ve changed my mind a bit about the relative importance of coaching. Used to weight it far behind player talent. Not so anymore. I still think you win with superior athletic talent, and that it’s the most important factor, but that coaching talent is close.

But one aspect of that coaching talent has to be to recognize player talent and how to best utilize it — macro and micro-wise. Isn’t that fundamental and obvious?

What good is a play, a scheme, even a team philosophy, if the personnel is all wrong for it?

Syncronicity, harmony, meshing, blending, etc. etc.

wv wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

As I’ve gotten older — and hopefully wiser — I’ve changed my mind a bit about the relative importance of coaching. Used to weight it far behind player talent. Not so anymore. I still think you win with superior athletic talent, and that it’s the most important factor, but that coaching talent is close.
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Andy Reid’s career is interesting. For so long he was “the good coach who couldnt win the big one.” Kinda like Shottenheimer or maybe Robinson for the Rams.

Enter Mahommes.

Now Reid is Mr Hall of fame coach.

I think it will interesting to see what Belichick
can do over the next few years, without Brady.

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Yeah, as the young kids used to say, That’s what I’m talking about.

I think a great coach can help a mediocre bunch of players “win.” But he can’t get them to the Super Bowl. In my view, pretty much never. In a game as physically and athletically demanding as NFL football, it’s just not gonna happen. At least in this era. Maybe 60 years ago, when training, diet (etc.) was hit and miss, but not now.

At the same time, a mediocre coach can degrade a superior group of athletes, screw with their heads, put them in the wrong position, fail to utilize their gifts, talents and so on. He can create a bad atmosphere so the players just don’t give a damn.

In short, I (basically) think the coach has a greater (potential) impact on the downside than the upside, relative to the import of the players themselves. But the flow goes back and forth, obviously. And, again, coaching really does matter a ton.

So I’ll take a good coach with a great team over a great coach with a good team eight days a week and twice on Sunday. When I was younger, though, I would have been fine with an even larger gap between players and coaches.

Brady? He just defies belief at this point. I don’t get it. I would have written him off before the season started. He proved me wrong (and right, in a way).