Reiss: Looking closer into smaller coaching staff

[RayClay]

Or by being incompetent.

Absolutely and it's great to have career coaches like that who are loyal and don't have other ambitions. Of course some of the best coaches have big egos and you risk losing them, they do often bring a lot of talent and independence to the table.

Like great teams, great coaching staffs are usually a blend of different personalities IMO. Parcells may have been an ahole in many ways, but he certainly had a great coaching tree and many of his coaches went on to become excellent coordinators and head coaches elsewhere.

Bill Belicheck, for instance. was known to mock Parcells behind his back and chafe at Parcells taking credit for aspects of the Giants success. Nevertheless, they always maintained a good working relationship, even though their roles came into direct conflict at times. I say good relationship because BB left for Cleveland, but was still welcomed back and they worked together to the point BB had to cut ties.

Crennel, Weis, Groh, Payton, Coughlin and many more worked with and had conflicts with Parcells, but managed to contribute in a professional manner.

Micro managing for short periods is great, but doesn't take the place of talent and creative input IMO. I think Brown could be a great addition. I don't see any top offensive coaching talent other than the career guys already mentioned.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Re: Reiss:Looking closer into smaller coaching staff

Bill Belichick Press Conference - 1/11/2010

I definitely get where you're at on that and I mean, I understand that. We try to have an open communication, an open forum on some things and some things aren't open. Some things are 'This is the way they're going to be.' But I understand what you're getting at and I think that's something, as a head coach, you have to be conscious of and I am. I'm not saying a do a great job of it. I don't know whether I do or not, but I'm definitely conscious of that and I get what you're saying there.

Nice try at taking the quote out of context. The fact he responded is something the mediots took out of context. He never said he felt he had a problem with push back or feedback. Just because he acknowledged he got what Curren was asking and he was aware of the potential doesn't mean he admitted it's a problem here.

PS - "This is the way they're going to be" would be the system and scheme. He's looking for bright young minds to challenge him, not worry warts to question him. If someone comes up with a new wrinkle and can sell him on it's viability for this team with these personnel, he will listen and possibly implement it. If someone suggests they just do something different because it seems to work for some other team with different personnel, he will tear them a new one for wasting his time. If someone comes in and tells him we should change to a 1 gap or switch the offense to a west coast because that's the system he's lost other jobs running...nevermind, that isn't going to happen.