11-03-2016, 08:02 PM
(11-03-2016, 07:39 PM)wolverine515151 Wrote: Good players make good coaches. Coaches get too much credit when a team does well and too much blame for when it does badly. A lot of the time it comes down to the players you have acquired through the draft and free agency. A gm has as much or more impact on a team than a coach. The coach is the first one to get fired but that's basically a function of being the scapegoat for the gm.
So some of this blame should be on tobin. Hes the one who brought in dansby when we could have possibly signed an impact young lb like trevathon. Hes the one who didnt sign nelson when we had cap space for it. That forced us to to put iloka in at free safety when hes a natural strong safety. This can send shock waves through the defense when players are playing out of their natural position.
If lewis is too blame its for bringing in coaches that probably weren't the correct fit for the bengals. It seems that guenther isn't meshing well with them. I can tell through subtle hints by him saying things like I can't go to these new coaches and talk about this play or that play like I used to be able to do with the previous assistant coaches. He seems to be having trouble developing chemistry with the assistant defensive coaches.
False, the general talent level in the NFL is pretty well evenly distributed. That is by design, as the league didn't want "dynasties", thus every facet of the process leads more to the process of drafting, coaching, and managing a salary cap as fundamentals that must be mastered in order to produce a championship team.
The league is set up to create parity, from giving last place teams more games versus last place finishing teams from the previous year, to free agency allowing players to seek jobs of higher compensation that result in teams not being able to stockpile a roster of star quality backups, to giving division winning teams the toughest schedules each year.
Not sure where you can say that coaches get too much credit for teams winning or losing, when the entire league structure is set up to make a level playing field. The teams that win, are the ones that are not only the best managed, but the best coached.
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