Sometimes Rooting Against Your Team Is Really Rooting For Them

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(11-29-2020, 11:22 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: If Zac's not head coach material, which IMO he's not, then where exactly does the 'winning culture' come from? Does it come from sticking with a terrible DC who your players are obviously having issues with? Does it come from hiring an OL coach that no one in the NFL would hire because he's a long time buddy? Does it come from not going all out to improve an o-line that was full of question marks and suspect talent, after drafting a franchise QB? Does it come from not making sure you had backup QB that can throw the ball more than 10 yards? Just a few of the things that are making question who's instilling this winning culture? 

To say that a getting a better coach isn't sound logic seems illogical to me. If the coach is better, then wouldn't the results potentially be better? You said winning games makes the team better, but how do you accomplish that if you have a subpar head coach and staff? Wouldn't a better coach and staff have a greater chance of winning games? 

In any business or things you do in life, there will be mistakes. They happen. The key is not repeating them. I'm not absolving Zach and FO decisions, the results speak for themselves, but the key is if the can learn from this and not make the same mistake. That would speak to just being a terrible leader (which tbh is probably the case, but this discussion is about building a winning culture). To keep chipping away at those mistakes, and be rewarded with a win. Then another win. Then another, etc. The winning culture comes from actually winning; rather if that's with Zac or someone else, it needs to happen and happen soon. Zach does not seem like he know how to build a good culture, but the point still remains that the only way for them and FO to learn to do that is by going through the bad, learning, not making the same mistake twice, and holding each other accountable. It reenforces what he (or another coach) is teaching. It builds that trust and chemistry.