05-01-2018, 06:44 PM
(05-01-2018, 06:32 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Every season there's 4 or 5, 6 top level teams. They have a bunch of talent both on and off the field. Great coaching, great plan, good offseason, etc.
Then every year there's 4 or 5 bottom feeders, not a lot of talent or a ton of injuries to their talent, mixed in with some bad coaching and many other issues.
Then there's the 20 or so teams lumped in the middle. The difference in talent level on these teams is very slight from top to bottom ! Sure one may have better LBers, another better RB's and so on but taken in whole they're pretty close.
Way more often than not what puts teams at the top of the middle 20 and into the playoffs is coaching, game planning, play calling, knowing how to use your roster and exploiting others weakness, knowing who to play where and when and on and on.
There are exceptions to every rule and some team usually breaks the rules every season. The Patriots are a giant outlier to this on the one end and the Browns on the other.
There's little doubt you have to have talent to win. But there's also little doubt you have to have a good plan and good coaching to get the most from the average team. You can't have a roster full of all pro's !
And this isn't basketball, one player - Lebron James - can't win it all for you.
Coaching is the wild card for way more teams than not in football.
You need good players to win in any sport. But coaching is more important in football than any other sport. There are so many different players and their roles are so specialized. And there is no long flow to the games. It is 60 to 80 small skirmishes per games with each skirmish being choreographed to the smallest detail.
