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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
I can kind of see your point, but at the professional level, this suggests that coaching is utterly irrelevant, . . . like completely.
I mean, these are professional athletes who have played every day of their life at a high level. Why on earth do they need some fat lard on the sidelines to tell them how to play?
More accurately though, coaches and FO perform tasks just as vital as play on the field, just not as visible. Cohesion, mentality, discipline, philosophy, demeanor, preparedness, etc.
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Why does everything have to be an absolute with you people? Can there really not be levels or shades or layers or meaning?
Look, coaches are responsible for many things, including to a certain extent off-the-field matters. But execution on gameday is a player thing, not a coach thing. Coaches install schemes and gameplans, tweak and refine issues for players, things like that.
But when players don't execute, when they play sloppy, or just damned stupid, that's on them. And it should be. I mean i get the whole "the captain is responsible for the actions o his crew," hell, that's exactly the life I live in aviation, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Last thing anyone wants is for the legal 'experts' and the bean counters (or God forbid the HR people) to have any real say in what happens in my airplane.
But players should be held accountable if and when they shit the bed on gameday.
To wit, the defense has been terrible, but the players need to communicate better and adjust when the other team tries to outpace them. Coaches can help with that through their experience and football acumen, but the players have to commit themselves to rectifying those issues.
And the offense simply must secure the ball much better. It won't mean a tinker's damn if the defense wakes up and plays like they did the last 9 weeks of 2019 (and the first 8 weeks or so of 2020) if the offense gives the ball away 2.2 times a game.
And have you seen Spags? He's hardly a tub of lard.