Pats, Belichick praise new DL coach Brendan Daly

h/t to @Mike the Brit for posting a link to this in another thread.

http://www.providencejournal.com/sp...n-daly-drawing-rave-reviews-with-patriots.ece

Definitely worth the read.

I agree.

Good article about Daly and the Pats, thanks for sharing.

Interesting how he fits the profile, Drake University a real football powerhouse...

Great article. Thanks for sharing @ctpatsfan77

Why does this article seem so eerily familiar?























http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...d-line-coach-daly-gets-raves-from-bb.1113334/

Maybe it's like turkey... great on Thanksgiving... but somehow just as tantalizing the next day. Or the day after that!

The article fits the template:

• BB thinks coaching is to a large extent about teaching.
• BB is always open to new ways to teach.

By way of contrast, WHAT BB wants taught may be less flexible. He changes schemes and plays a lot, but seemingly off a rather consistent base.

As sort of a hybrid point, it was said that Romeo Crennel's big contribution as DC was to simplify the scheme so as to make it a lot more teachable.

DarrylS said:

Interesting how he fits the profile, Drake University a real football powerhouse...

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Well, a Drake player is responsible for one of the most memorable plays in the last five years of the NFL.

Unfortunately for Drake, that would be Billy Cundiff's missed field goal in the AFCCG.

Fencer said:

As sort of a hybrid point, it was said that Romeo Crennel's big contribution as DC was to simplify the scheme so as to make it a lot more teachable.

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Yep- During the 2001 season, I recall Ty Law and Willie Mac saying that RAC translated BB's D into the "Cliff Notes" version.

Has the ProJo website gone down? Have been unable to access this article (or any of the website) for about 12 hours now.

Thanks

livinginthe past said:

Has the ProJo website gone down? Have been unable to access this article (or any of the website) for about 12 hours now.

Thanks

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I just read it so it's good now.

robertweathers said:

Yep- During the 2001 season, I recall Ty Law and Willie Mac saying that RAC translated BB's D into the "Cliff Notes" version.

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This is a very interesting comment for me. I have long believed that great coaches are great semanticists.

We so often hear about how important "communications" are in the success of the both the offense and defense. So clearly, language is a key element. Every system has its own "language" each as different as Chinese is to English. So one of the factors in being a successful coach is having the ability to give a lot of information in the FEWEST words possible. Believe me, given how complex offenses and defenses have become, this can be a daunting task.

You can't have players "thinking" on the field. Responses to what is called has to be instantaneous as well as purely reactionary. Its a lot easier said than done. Don't doubt for a second that part of the reason for the consistent success of the Pats is that they're all speaking the same language, and have been for a long time. But even then you have the need to parse that language into its most simple form. Its almost like creating an algorithm that speeds up a computer program.

patfanken said:

This is a very interesting comment for me. I have long believed that great coaches are great semanticists.

We so often hear about how important "communications" are in the success of the both the offense and defense. So clearly, language is a key element. Every system has its own "language" each as different as Chinese is to English. So one of the factors in being a successful coach is having the ability to give a lot of information in the FEWEST words possible. Believe me, given how complex offenses and defenses have become, this can be a daunting task.

You can't have players "thinking" on the field. Responses to what is called has to be instantaneous as well as purely reactionary. Its a lot easier said than done. Don't doubt for a second that part of the reason for the consistent success of the Pats is that they're all speaking the same language, and have been for a long time. But even then you have the need to parse that language into its most simple form. Its almost like creating an algorithm that speeds up a computer program.

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Yea they we're on "Sports Final" with Steve Burton and I think Bob Lobel was still around. Kinda stuck with me.

We've heard a lot about how BB boils down for players that they need to do 1 or 2 things to win. However, we always here how complex the Patriots' offensive and defensive schemes are. With RAC having almost 2 decades running the 3-4/BB defense, it seems logical that he can also boil down complex schematic stuff and just say, "when you see that, you do this". I'm oversimplifying for sure.

robertweathers said:

Yea they we're on "Sports Final" with Steve Burton and I think Bob Lobel was still around. Kinda stuck with me.

We've heard a lot about how BB boils down for players that they need to do 1 or 2 things to win. However, we always here how complex the Patriots' offensive and defensive schemes are. With RAC having almost 2 decades running the 3-4/BB defense, it seems logical that he can also boil down complex schematic stuff and just say, "when you see that, you do this". I'm oversimplifying for sure.

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Actually what you say leads to the key point in the difficulty of putting together a defense for each week. It's true that the goal of the DC is to be able to distill the game down to about 2-3 reads for each individual player. Now to fully understand the complexity of the task, multiply that by 11......and THEN have to be able to communicate those instructions in 2-4 word bursts......and THEN, after the call has been made based on down/distance, and tendencies, the offense shifts or motions to a different formation and the pre-snap communications have to begin and information has to be shared with one or 2 word bursts. Words that have to have the ability to communicate different things to different people. In other words, with just a word or two it will tell a Dlineman to change his gap responsibility, a LB to go from a rush to a drop back, and a DB to change his coverage.

I know, when you think on it for a bit, your head starts to spin. Yet the fact remains the ability to create a succinct method of communicating a LOT of information in as few words as possible is a factor in winning and losing games. It would not surprise me in the least that the Pats have at some point in the BB era employed a professional semanticist to help in this task

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It would not surprise me in the least that the Pats have at some point in the BB era employed a professional semanticist to help in this task

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It would not surprise me either. BB and the org is always looking for new, innovative ways of getting better and improving how they do their jobs.