Redmond - Weakest link on the line

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(10-26-2018, 11:31 AM)I_C_DeadPeople Wrote: I can see that viewpoint but it is too clinical. Human nature will show that owners will act with some level of "comfort" - perhaps choose the coach with experience then the one without. A good example is the Celtics when they chose Brad Stevens as HC, almost everyone thought WTF??? But he quickly became one of the best head coaches in the NBA. 

With your argument you could translate that to any business and say every CEO is the best their is because it is the top position in the business world. But no, many (if not most) fail, they are not the best. Sometimes someone is very good for a short window of time or in a very specific spot. Many CEO's go from firm to firm and often fail all over the place but keep getting more chances. It happens. 

This is humans picking other humans, ergo subjective to human error. To say there is no coordinator or other coach or ANY college coach who could not do a better job than ML (or Hue Jackson or Doug Marrone or, etc etc) is ridiculous. MANY of the head coaches in the NFL are the best but many are outright average or weak or just plain bad. 

Coslet, Crennel, Marion Campbell, Kotite, Dave Shula, etc etc. Right now you can say Hue and Doug Marrone and a few others who simply are not that good. 

You are missing one big point.  Even if the 32 best men are in head coaching positions half of them are going to be losers.  So when you say a head coach is bad you are simply saying he is not as good compared to the other 32.  It does not mean there are a lot of better coaches out there.

And is sure as hell does not mean that every NFL fan is smarter than the NFL coaching staffs.  These guys have dedicated their lives to coaching and spent thousands of hours evaluating film and players.  They know a hell of a lot more than us.

I played football at a very small college, but I played for an elite coach (Ken Sparks) who had a staff he kept together for many years.  Those guys would see things on film that none of us would. I remember the first film session when the coach showed how a guy lining up about a foot out of position (inside shoulder or receiver instead of outside) effected the entire coverage an resulted in a long completion on the opposite side of the field 30 yards from where the mistake was made.

I'd love to see you guys try to sit in a film room and show NFL coaches where they are wrong.