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I think too often people get coaching jobs not because they're bright, but because they're former players or they know people or they just get pulled along with some other coach.
I was watching one of those NFL Network Super Bowl shows, and Bill Belichick was talking about game-planning. I think it was against the Ravens. He said that they were quite happy on defense, because offensive tackle Orlando Brown had a specific stance that he took 100% of the time when the play was a pass, and a different stance that he took 100% of the time when the play was a run. (The story continued that Orlando Brown was a game-day scratch, but that's irrelevant.)
What amazed me is that the Ravens or whoever have an offensive line coach, and that coach never noticed this? The guy's job is to know and understand and teach a group of 8 or 9 players, and he never noticed that his starting offensive tackle has a 100% giveaway in his stance? This is the NFL, with all the money in the world and all the power to hire the best people, and some team has a coach who doesn't notice this?
If I was an owner, I would hire the smartest game-planner and game-day coach, and the odds are very, very low that it would be a former player. They're 0.0001 percent of the population.
There's way too much of a good ol' boy network in the NFL.
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