Quote:You rarely see developing players flourish with changing offenses. Most young players need a bit of stability in order to effectively raise their game.


Veteran teams can make the switch and flourish. Individual young players not so much.


You are more likely to see a young player regress with a scheme change than see one flourish.


The more you switch things up in a learning process the longer it takes to fully grasp the concepts and this isn't unique to learning football. This is a common theme to all forms of learning from elementary school to learning any sort of profession.

Continuity is overrated. Rookies often have a sophomore slump within the same system and under the same coaches. If continuity was king, that would not so often be the case.


Yes, you have to learn a new playbook, but as we have heard players say over and over again: the terminology is the main difficulty. The concepts don't change. The difficulty in changing playbooks is overstated by most fans. In fact, it actually works in favor of the players because the opposition does not have as much game footage to study.


Your comparison to other professions is flawed. You are assuming the concepts change within the same profession, but they don't. If you are learning a profession, who you work for does not really affect your learning curve. It's more about experience and applying your knowledge. It helps to have a good teacher, yes. That is my point. Success is less about the playbook and more about good coaching, playcalling, and execution.

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