Quote:I know your reply wasn't directed to me, but it made me think of something else...When does the problem go from coaching to being the players fault? Can you coach dropping passes out of a player? can you coach out everything out of everyone so they are a perfect player or at some point in time do you say, well we tried to teach these guys but they just weren't receptive to what we were teaching them? Anyone can tell a player how to do something, but if they just can't do it who gets the blame? I'm not saying this is the case here, but when you go over blocking assignments or coverage assignments every single day from the start of OTAs and TC to the 5th week of the season and the players are still missing assignments is that coaching or is that the players fault?

 

Unfortunately the buck stops with the coach. If this team was doing amazing, he would get all the credit. Since it's not, he is getting all the blame. His job is to coach the players he has and put wins on the board. Whether those players suck or not is not his responsibility. Caldwell should bring in more talent if that's the case. I believe Caldwell has brought the talent in, Gus just isn't taking advantage of it. A WR consistently drops passes? Take him out and replace him. A lineman keeps missing his block? Take him out and replace him. Make them feel the heat of not performing well. Does Gus do that? We don't know. All we see from the outside looking in is that he pats his players on the backs and congratulates them even if they do terrible. This team needs discipline BAD and I'm not sure Gus is the guy to do that.

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