Moving the Chains talking about HC's...

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(01-05-2021, 01:21 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: I disagree with that. I don't think his issue is not being a good leader, the players on the field have shown that they follow him. Unlike in down Marvin years where they were mailing it in week 10, this team went out with a 3rd string QB and bullied the division bully. That is leadership.

Where he is at fault, is his loyalty to his guys. He needs to be able to look at a Turner or a Lou or a Bobby Hart, or a Michael Jordan and say, you aren't getting it done and you are gone. 

His other major fault, isn't even his own. He took a job for a franchise that is only going to win if they can win their way of doing things. I'll never buy into the narrative that Mike Brown doesn't want to win. He is a man, and his father was a football icon. Every guy on here who had a decent relationship with his own dad is going to relate to this, you want to make the old man proud. There is no way Mike is happy with the results on the field, but the issue is he honestly thinks his way is the right way of doing it. He will stand his ground and be the only owner that votes against something and not care. The national media can blast him and he will not care. In his mind, he will win, he will win his way and that will show everyone. Problem is, in this modern era of statistics and scouts and saber-metrics, the league is playing chess, and he has a lite-brite. 

For Zac, this means he left the comfort of LA with a large scouting department and a large analytics department and came to the land of Tobin and the Brown family as your scouts along with the tape you have to watch yourself. That's a huge handicap.

There's more to being a leader than having people like you and want to follow you.  You also have to make everyone around you rise to the occasion.  Let's talk about the other Michael Jordan, and what he did for the Bulls.  His teammates didn't all love him, but they respected him and followed him because he elevated the team.  He wasn't trying to be everyone's friend and gathering them together for cigar nights and fun.  He was demanding the very best of them like he demanded from himself, and you follow someone like that.  I don't think Zac demands that of himself or his coordinators and coaches.  And if it's like that from the top down, the players might like and be comfortable with him, but it doesn't mean he's the right kind of leader.  

Since you mention it... I'm trying to remember which I enjoyed more, the satisfaction of puncturing that first hole in the light brite and leaving that thing on all night long or my little brother's face when he stepped on one of the pegs that was hidden in the carpet