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Bielema was as much of a problem last season as the players under him were...glad he's gone to join the Worst WRs Coach in Football with the Jersey Swamp Vagiants.Another aspect of the overall building of a team that warrants consideration - that it's not simply just athletic talent that produces results.
You can have the most gifted athlete genetics ever produced, but if he doesn't mesh with the coaching staff and cant use those gifts as part of an overall team defense...doesn't that end up being a detriment?
Adalius Thomas is a likely example - on pure talent alone he was probably one of the best LBs the Pats ever signed, but he simply wasn't a fit for a myriad of other reasons unrelated to pure athletic talent.
Afailus didn't become a problem until the 2009 season when there was a mini-coup attempted by certain players that came to a head during the Late for Practice Because of Snow episode...