Quote:Anecdotal evidence incoming:

 

Back in HS, my friends and I were all volleyball players. We were all decent to very good and most of us were extremely athletic (most of us played 2 sports...generally basketball, soccer or ran track). Now there was one among us who was nowhere near as athletically gifted as the rest of us, he was slow, not very strong and couldn't jump to save his life (which is very important in volleyball for hitting in case you were unaware...lol) but was more of a tactician type. Thank God he was a setter (floor QB). He never wowed you on the stat sheets or made any spectacular plays, he was just there and didn't screw up very often and that was OK.

 

Fast forward twenty some odd years. He is a extremely successful DII volleyball coach today. The rest of us all gave it a shot with varying levels of success, mostly in high school but as it turns out, the "worst" player out of all 8 of us ended up being by far, the best coach.

 

I see that here and have no problem with it.

 

First of all, gotta get this out of the way:  Cool story, bro.   :thumbsup:

 

But I think you're right, often those that are less gifted athletically learn the fundamentals better, because that is the only way they can compete.  I'm pretty sure Belicheat was not a very good footballer.  He sure does know how to coach a football team.

 

Another example is our own Jerry Sullivan.  I think it's Universally accepted he's a great WR's coach...

 

His Wiki has no info on his playing career.  And from jags.com, "A native of Miami, Sullivan played quarterback at Miami Jackson High School.  He earned a scholarship to Florida State and later transferred to Delta State. "

 

So it can be defended that J.Palmer can be a very good mentor.  Not to mention, BB5's footwork and throwing accuracy was much stronger in the pre-season and early games, and then fell off a cliff after the bye.  Another reason I thought Fish was a bad OC.  He allowed BB5's mechanics to deteriorate over the course of the season.

 

But at any rate, at this point, there's no reason to be concerned with who BB5 is working out with in the offseason.  Unless all of a sudden he's taking selfies with Johnny Alcohol...

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