Vermeil's philosophy
 

I recalled a Coach Vermeil quote from a few years back. His stated philosophy was that to build a competitive football team one must start with LT, QB and RB.

My questions to the board are:

1. Do you agree with his philosophy?
2. How far away are we from having these three pieces in place?

I think thats a good start if you want to build a good offense. I don't agree with that philosophy.

Note how he left out the defense... :)

Roaf, Green, and Holmes took us to 13-3. Add a defense and recievers, and baby you got a stew going! So, its really only half a philosophy...

heh...exactly

I disagree with the notion of that's what it takes to build a competitive football team. Marty had competitive football teams here for a decade and pretty much did it with journeymen QB's and RBBC.

I'll go with what Rex Ryan said the other day, if you have a real good defense and can run the ball, you can compete with anyone.

If you want to have a dominating offense, having what Vermeil describes would be important...

I'd go with LT, QB, and MLB.

Give me that and a top 5 QB, and you can win some ships.

You want to build a good competitive football team?

Think both sides of the ball. I say for offense, a good start would be a LT, QB, RB. I agree with Vermeil on this for offense only. I don't agree with his philosophy in general.

And for defense, a good start would be a passrusher, an excellent NT or DT, a MLB, and safety. Gimme those four on defense and were talking.

Vermiel had the SB rings to prove his abilities, too bad none of them were in kc

Ring.

Singular.

Lesser publicized is his philosophy for destroying pretty good football teams FOR YEARS.

ROFL

I think this is good if you want to make the playoffs. Thats it. But still, Im a believer that you need everything. Balance is the key to success. Teams that win bowls are solid everywhere.

Rams and eagles?