Dick LeBeau Article

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(07-06-2017, 07:02 PM)3wt Wrote: I love Lebeau, but he was a players coach on a really undisciplined team.   I remember opening up against San Diego at home in early September. 

Got our butts kicked (Lap was talking about how SD had opened up a huge can of Butt Whiip and was smothering us in it).  By the fourth quarter our players were so out of shape their tongues were dragging on the turf.   Lap was appalled how badly conditioned the players were.

Dick is an awesome coach but has to either coach for a strong armed coach, coach a group of true professionals or needs a henchman to discipline his players.

Groan...I remember that game.  So much optimism (not really) at week 1, and I remember watching the SD running back (Was it LT?) run through a hole so wide that he literally looked both ways as he ran through.  

To be fair, LeBeau was a schematic wizard and is still viewed that way by many, but agreed that he was not the hammer needed for that team....at least not as HC.