05-01-2018, 11:44 PM
(04-30-2018, 10:48 PM)Jakeypoo Wrote: It's a players league all pro sports are. If you add all pros to your team you will get better dramatically. Free agency is overrated because teams spend out ragious money on average players because great players like that usually never reach the open market... That's off topic though great players make great coaches though.
As others have said, coaching matters in the NFL more than in other leagues.
In baseball, managers are practically interchangeable. As long as you can fill out a lineup card and know the rules, you're good.
In basketball, there's only 5 players on the court per team, and 1 super talent can make a team win. Strategy matters some, but talent is king.
In Football, which is almost like chess with a pigskin, strategy and scheme matter a LOT. I'd say it's around 50/50 with talent. You need a good coach.
Also, you know there are great players that hit the market, pretty often actually.
What did N'Damukong Suh do for the Dolphins? Back when the Bucs were winning free agency, they signed Vincent Jackson (coming off a pro bowl) and a still-in-his-prime Darrelle Revis. They won 4 games. In 2015, the Eagles added the NFL's leading rusher (Demarco Murray), another 1000 yard rusher in Ryan Matthews, on top of Byron Maxwell and Sam Bradford. This on top of previous signings like Sproles, Malcolm Jenkins and Connor Barwin. They had a lot of talent. Went 7-9.
Sean McVay deserves a ton of credit for that turnaround.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
