A few questions to ponder

[samhain]

(07-05-2015, 01:18 PM)bfine32 Wrote: 1. Nobody has ever placed 100% of the blame on any one person. That’s just a phrase folks use to defend someone: “I guess it’s all Andy’s fault”, ‘So you are saying Marvin is 100% to blame?”. If I had to find a scapegoat it would be Mike Brown. He treats his team solely as a business and often cuts corners on his players’ amenities. To be a Champion you’ve got to believe you’re a champion. That is very hard to do when you are commuting to the local University or recreational soccer facility to practice indoors.

2. Yes, Andy is improving, the problem is that he is doing it very slowly and he may be nearing his ceiling.  For instance Andy enjoyed a much better rookie year than other young starters such as Luck and Tannehill; yet both have already demonstrated they have a higher ceiling than Andy.

3. I am not confident anyone will take us to a Super Bowl; however, Andy currently gives us the best chance.  

I feel very similar about the big picture.  I don't get as riled up about amenities (the new facilities are actually really nice), just the mentality.   People have debated whether or not Mike Brown really wants to win a Super Bowl for a long time.  I have no doubt that he does to some degree, but not enough to make any major changes in his organizational philosophy.  He wants to do it his way.  

There are owners, some very savvy and some utterly misguided, who are driven by a desire to win titles.  They are men who have lived lives in the dog-eat-dog world of business and corporate dealing and been very good at it, almost to a man.  They live to compete and measure dicks against other guys who live to compete and feed ego.  Mike just doesn't strike me as this type-A kind of  guy.  He's basically second-generation money and could really care less what anyone thinks of him.  I sort of admire him as a person for his FU mentality, TBH.  He's far from dumb, just stubborn.  When a smart, complacent man who's unwilling to change runs into a smart, obsessed man who will do anything to win, he usually loses.