Urban Meyer on Elite Talent

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(05-12-2020, 08:19 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001113584/article/meyer-haskins-needs-great-players-elite-culture

Found an article interview with Urban Meyer on how it takes elite teammates and culture to make an elite QB to play up to their pedigree. It’s basically an article of Meyer defending Haskins saying it’s not his fault that the Redskins are bad and they need to surround him with elite talent for him to be elite...

Meyer says the same of Burrow and the Bengals in the last paragraph.

It’s interesting to me because on one hand you believe elite qbs can change an organizations culture ... on the other hand, are certain organizations so crippling that elite QBs will never make it? I don’t necessarily buy that.

Anyways, thought I’d share as it relates to the current culture change here.

Back to the OP, Tom Brady didn't always have elite talent around him, but he was part of an elite culture that he helped to create and maintain. An elite culture can't create elite players per se, but they get close to playing at an elite level. If that makes any sense.

I think Zac is trying to build that kind of culture here. Hence all the former team captains we drafted, and the free agents with playoff experience.