The Coaching Staff

[DaBruinz]

Chances are all the coaches, including MARRONE, saw Lowe and Brown in practice and thought they actually wouldn't have been better. I'd bet my life on it. It really is that simple.

The bill was stretched to its maximum last year. We were tapped. We had only ONE good draft under the belt, we reconfigured almost all positions, we exhausted many rotations due to sustained injuries at important positions during the reg season. We had our QB & LT play the longest season of their careers by far.

The coaching staff took an extremely unknown roster and squeezed every ounce out of them they could.

The coaches don't have ESP. They aren't the 2nd coming of Ms. Cleo. They can't know how a player will react in the game unless that player gets the chance. That's how the "heroes" of these games are born.

That being said, to the fans eyes, Brown was the better player last year at LG than Wilson, yet the Pats kept him in a reserve capacity to help develop Wilson. Lowe appeared to be less of a bad player last year, but the pressures allowed stats say he didn't really improve with the stability of Marrone as his line coach.

We'll never truly know what could have been if Brown and/or Lowe had been subbed in.

 

[Vindicate]

The coaches don't have ESP. They aren't the 2nd coming of Ms. Cleo. They can't know how a player will react in the game unless that player gets the chance. That's how the "heroes" of these games are born.

That being said, to the fans eyes, Brown was the better player last year at LG than Wilson, yet the Pats kept him in a reserve capacity to help develop Wilson. Lowe appeared to be less of a bad player last year, but the pressures allowed stats say he didn't really improve with the stability of Marrone as his line coach.

We'll never truly know what could have been if Brown and/or Lowe had been subbed in.

Care to say more on this? Genuinely asking - I don't share the same position, but I'm also not saying I'm right. Was there a quote from staff that they were instead trying to develop Wilson?

Or maybe some stats to point to with Wilson vs. Brown and how the offense performed under either?

To be totally forward, I am not a fan of "we truly never know arguments" because it just leaves all the room in the world for speculation. I'm not saying that in an "appease me" manner, I'm just being forward with my thoughts process. I'm far more inclined to believe that the staff saw more hope in the starters over the backups and little changed on gameday.

Again, all my questions are of genuine curiousity and I'm not trying to do some "gotchya" ****.

 

[mgteich]

Chances are all the coaches, including MARRONE, saw Lowe and Brown in practice and thought they actually wouldn't have been better. I'd bet my life on it. It really is that simple.

The bill was stretched to its maximum last year. We were tapped. We had only ONE good draft under the belt, we reconfigured almost all positions, we exhausted many rotations due to sustained injuries at important positions during the reg season. We had our QB & LT play the longest season of their careers by far.

The coaching staff took an extremely unknown roster and squeezed every ounce out of them they could.

I generally agree.

An open question is whether the staff misjudged and expected more than they should have from a rookie recovering from an injury. Lowe was a known quantity. In the end, they took a shot that they could get more out of Campbell.