Quote:Boselli: "HIS FEET ARE GOOD. YOU CANT TEACH THAT."

 

Lageman: "If you don't think Joeckel is going to be a great player in this league, you just don't know football"

And where do most coaches come from? From mediocre or retired QB's and LB's who couldn't make first string and are now needing a second career. Remember these two players predictions the next time someone says trust the "Professionals", that the professionals know 1000 times more than any fan. It's nonsense. A lot of coaches are boneheads who went from stupid player to stupid scout to stupid special teams coach, kissing butt the whole way,and finally found a mentor, or married a coach's daughter and lucked into a couple decent seasons with a loaded team that Norm from Cheers couldn't screw up.

 

Suddenly they turn into a football genius? Not hardly. On the other hand there are men who have spent thousands of hours a year, for 50 years, watching every aspect of football, and in the gambling game of which player is going to turn out good, quite a lot of those non professionals on the couch can decide on a player as well or better than some dumb ex jock. Football is one of the few professions where there is no real college for it, no advanced university degree. It's a profession based upon making the right contacts and getting with the right mentor, then usually lucking into the right job, and within ten years some real morons go from dumb players to the respected top of their football profession. There is too much coach turnover, and GM turnover to believe otherwise. A lot of these professional football minds do not know anything special about the game that half the members of this board knew  a decade ago. I won't put myself in that category but I know there are bright minds here that could out coach Bradley and half his staff.

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