I don't know, but it would have great to find out. When we polled the reasons for our problems three or four weeks ago, more than 60% thought that the problems we were having had more to do with coaching than with anything else!!!!
Well, there you go... If 60% of the fanatics who post on a message board believe something it must be the true!!!
mg, what part of this is BB's offense and defense don't you understand??
No coach outside the walls of Gillette save those who have left here to seek employment elsewhere know the terminology, playbook, personnel. Who do you want him to bring in...Mike Martz, a guy who can't get a job in the NFL begging?? Who do you think should run Bill's defense, Dom Capers? Bill had him in for a cup of coffee while he was inbetween gigs and nothing came of it. He didn't exactly set the world on fire in Houston before Charley Casserly saved his own skin for another year by firing him...He didn't stick in Miami, either. Now he's in GB and they are the 6th seed in a weaker conference. WOW, did we miss out on that one. Coaching and managing a team is not about Q rating or Casserly wouldn't still be stuck on CBS and Herm wouldn't be doing commentary and Martz and Mora Sr. wouldn't be sporadically guesting on NFLN.
Rex Ryan and Herm Edwards and even Eric Mangini didn't have an offense. Herm didn't even have a defense, just a charming personality. Coaches like that have to find someone with one to install they hope will work. Herm chose Marty's kid from SD to design him an offense because he was sprouted from the same coaching tree. Rex inherited him as he wasn't given the opportunity to find one he liked better. He doesn't even understand the terminology in the offense his team run as a result... Eric was saddled with the same situation although he would have rathered steal Bill's.
Coaching is a fraternity and guys gravitate to their frat brothers. That is what Bill did with Charlie and RAC, only in each case he knew more about the area they would coordinate because he wanted it to replicate the one run by the team he'd spent years on, the Giants. The defense was his when RAC learned it, the offense he'd adopted was the same one Charlie ran with the JETS. Once he was on his own he taught it to others. Like with his teams, when one guy moves on the next in line steps up. There are guys who won't advance. There are others on the fast track to. Some guys start out as Bill's gophers as he did with Marchibroda. Others come in after interning with his earlier protoges like Saban. It's like this everywhere that coaches have control. Where they don't it's musical chairs random matches and players have to learn an entirely new system every time the last one fails or is abandoned. That's the beauty of the system here. Like BB it endures.
Coaches don't coach players to blow coverage and bite on fakes or tackle like schoolgirls or get manhandled by DL or zig when they should have zagged or drop the damn ball whe it hits them in the numbers... How many times do you think they have coached Darius Butler to look for the ball in coverage? How many times have they reminded Wilhite that when he has safety help over the top he must stay inside his man? Hopefully eventually they will get it. Asante couldn't catch a cold for the first three seasons he was here and RAC was his OC for two of them. He actually came into his own on Pees watch...bit it happened on his own schedule.
This whole team is in transition. They aren't the no name throw the ball to the open man team of the early decade. That went out the window the day Al called with an offer Bill couldn't refuse because he hadn't won throwing the ball to the open guy for two straight seasons. And on defense the same guys RAC coached were aging out and he finally had to move on. Just like the guys who came before them, the Law's and McGinest's and Milloy's and Bruschi's they aren't gonna win right away. Hopefully it won't take them nearly as long to since Bill is already here. But they may need a little more talent or a little more experience on both sides of the ball. They lost a year of Brady in 2008. And that gave the rest of the league another year to tweak the bluepring to stop this offense. Belichick seems to be more aware of that now than he was in 2008 and in Vollmer he's already made a move towards mitigating it. Losing Welker likely through much of 2010 will mean he has to ramp up any plans to counter it long term. For now he will do the best he can with the hand he's been dealt (and to some extent dealt himself). But no matter who coaches it at the end of the day it's going to come down to whether the players on the field execute sufficiently to carry the day.
If Charlie could make players execute or wave a magic playcallilng wand that compensated when they didn't, either he'd still be in South Bend or Bledsoe would still be the QB of the NEP. Ditto RAC as the HC in Cleveland where he had a decent amount of talent and he just couldn't make it execute.
