(09-27-2023, 10:14 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(09-27-2023, 10:08 AM)paksat Wrote: What the f*ck are coaches even out there doing in some of your eyes then? What's the point of even having them to some of you if it's all the players?

Yep. Lots of deflection going on trying to put all of the blame on the players. I will defer to Leon Searcy who said what we see on Sunday is a reflection of what the coaches expected during the week. 

I have no way to prove it but it sure looks to me like the coaching staff are soft pedaling at practice.

It's weird that certain teams with certain coaches are always in contention...  Even when players come and go...  (Mike Tomlin, Bill Belicheat, Andy Reid, Pete Carrol, John Harbaugh, hell even freaking Mike Vrabel is always in the hunt with that poop show of a roster and franchise.  Vrabel is leading our division!!)

And then some teams flash but then fall behind when a certain coordinator is hired somewhere else or just some players leave.   

Coaching matters.  And if a coaching staff changes their philosophy or responsibilities from one year to the next, there may be a change in performance as well...

I'm not saying anything about anything.  I'm just saying that how a manager defers responsibility, how a manager controls a meetings and training sessions, how a manager illustrates the expectations to employees, all will determine outcomes.  Management is more important than most people think.  And that is within an athletic program as well.  

It's just human nature.  The players aren't robots.  They are human.  And we humans want to find the easiest path to success.  It's up to managers to make sure that the path to success isn't so easy that success isn't a possibility.

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