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Originally Posted by FringeNC
I think Pioli wants an Xs and Os guy. We're going to try to be New England West, with disciplined, smart football players who don't need constant hand-holding by the head coach.
I could be wrong -- we could retain Herm Edwards, or hire someone similar -- but I doubt it.
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I don't doubt that it's important, but it's overrated. You can be a really solid fundamentals football coach even if you don't have outstanding football intelligence. But I think it's more important that the coach set the tone. He needs to demand hard-nose football, but let's face it--these days, the coordinators are the ones that are calling the plays and the assistant coaches are the ones working directly with the players. A head coach simply does not have enough arms, legs, and brains to individually coach everybody.
Now, I know football doesn't always copy the real world, but in the real world, the best managers are the ones that know how to delegate and know how to work with people. There are a ton of super-talented people who never succeed because they insist on taking everything themself because they don't trust others to do their job. And so, like any management position, the head coach's job isn't to sit down and write up creative plays and coach players individually himself. It is his job to make sure that all pieces of the team are operating well.
He has to know the X's and O's and he has to know fundamentals, but it's far more important that he know how to manage people who can do it.