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Originally Posted by KC Fish
The coach is certainly responsible for wins and losses. But that has to come with some understanding of what the team makeup is, and the level of talent currently on the team. You have to factor in the team youth and inexperience. You could pick your favorite head coach and put him in charge of the youngest team in the league, and his record would be less than his coaching average. Lots of people point to the overall record as proof positive of failure, but you have to keep in mind what the expectations were before the season started. Most everyone saw what the team was going to be made of before the season started and picked us to win 0-5 games. Now our 2 wins are being held as justification for failure, even though it was seen as expected growing pains beforehand.
Second half point are a concern. But I see us doing the same things in the second half that we're doing in the first, and not executing them the same way. LJ is no longer running up the center's ass, so that has changed since last year. Cover 2 is a failure with this personnel, and a big negative on Herm's philosophy.
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overall record is not what i'm basing my argument off of. over the past two seasons, there has been no improvement from the players. break the last two seasons down into 4 game sections, and there should be improvement, one 4 game stretch to the next. say we were to start off 0-4. the following four games should be better, but if you break it down like this, there are an awful lot of 0-4's with a couple of 1-3's, showing little to no improvement. a good coach could coach even a young team to a better record than what herm has done with these chiefs, as i think there is some talent on this team.