09-20-2022, 11:10 PM
(09-19-2022, 03:37 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: I agree except.. talent does not mean success, there are players that come out of college considered not so talented yet they succeed and there are those that come out talented and don't. Also players have to make adjustments just like coaches.. I feel we are lacking in both right now, coaches need to get better but at same time, players have to also get better if we act like coaches are the only issue, what does that say for players with talent ?
How much did we spend this off-season on o-line? The odds that a team stinks at blocking, then goes out and splurges on talent (replacing 4/5ths of the line and only retaining what was probably the best linemen we had), and the line still stinking due to talent somehow not translating are slim.
I'll give you that it's still very early and they will probably improve as the season progresses, but if they still look like this mid-way through the season, then you have to look at Pollack then maybe the scheme itself.
A normal team wouldn't think twice to fire the o-line coach after the line costing them a championship, followed by it continuing to stink after splurging on talent. It is the coach's job to make the talent translate.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
