State of Coaching in the NFL
Sept 15, 2017 8:31:43 GMT -6
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Post by butkus3595 on Sept 15, 2017 8:31:43 GMT -6
This might not be the correct spot for this post, but it does have to do with the Bears in some ways. Mods if you want to move it thats cool. This is going to be a rant of sorts, so feel free to add your opinion or tell me how off base I am...I'm interested to see what everyone else thinks.
As I've sat and watched the NFL for the past couple of seasons I can't help but admit how bad the product has become. It's just bad football. There's no way around that. You could list a million reasons why too from both sides. Coaches will tell you it's because of the reduced practice time, and the reduction of padded practice that have led to poor play. Players will tell you it's poor coaching, too many pre-season games where injuries occur and so on.
My take is it's a little bit of both, but I'm putting the onus on coaches. Part of whats contributed to this awful product to watch is poor o-line play, and poor play at the QB position. I've talked with a good amount of o-linemen and they'll all tell you the coaching they received in college was much better than what they received in the league. Not everyone of them says that...and they list a handful of o-line coaches in the league who are really good, but thats the overall opinion. The same can be said of QB's.
It's my opinion that coaches in this league are doing a poor job of adjusting to the talent they are being given by colleges. More and more teams run the spread offense and ask their linemen and QB's to do things that are totally foreign to the pro game. They're asking their receivers not to run precise routes, but to run short routes and make something happen in space once they get the ball. NFL teams, in large part, are doing none of this. Yet they are throwing these players into the fire to play, without giving the requisite skills to do what they're asking them to do. This is a recipe for failure.
What's the solution? Well to me you can either sit all these guys and develop them into what you want them to be. Actually coach them. Or, you can adjust to what you're being given and ask them to do what they're good at, while trying to develop the other skills they may need. To me if you don't do either or you're wasting talent out there. You can sit there and think about the good ol days when every college team ran a pro system...lose and get fired, or adapt and overcome. I look at last nights game and Bill O'Brien, who's supposed to be some QB whisperer and offensive guru has his rookie QB sitting behind a porous offensive line against a good defense. Why not run some boot leg? Why not get your mobile QB on the move, some play action and let him do what he's good at. You decided 30 minutes of Savage was all you wanted to see...but why would you want to ruin the kid you drafted in round 1? If you're not going to develop on the bench you better adjust to what he can do NOW.
Rant over. What do you all think?
As I've sat and watched the NFL for the past couple of seasons I can't help but admit how bad the product has become. It's just bad football. There's no way around that. You could list a million reasons why too from both sides. Coaches will tell you it's because of the reduced practice time, and the reduction of padded practice that have led to poor play. Players will tell you it's poor coaching, too many pre-season games where injuries occur and so on.
My take is it's a little bit of both, but I'm putting the onus on coaches. Part of whats contributed to this awful product to watch is poor o-line play, and poor play at the QB position. I've talked with a good amount of o-linemen and they'll all tell you the coaching they received in college was much better than what they received in the league. Not everyone of them says that...and they list a handful of o-line coaches in the league who are really good, but thats the overall opinion. The same can be said of QB's.
It's my opinion that coaches in this league are doing a poor job of adjusting to the talent they are being given by colleges. More and more teams run the spread offense and ask their linemen and QB's to do things that are totally foreign to the pro game. They're asking their receivers not to run precise routes, but to run short routes and make something happen in space once they get the ball. NFL teams, in large part, are doing none of this. Yet they are throwing these players into the fire to play, without giving the requisite skills to do what they're asking them to do. This is a recipe for failure.
What's the solution? Well to me you can either sit all these guys and develop them into what you want them to be. Actually coach them. Or, you can adjust to what you're being given and ask them to do what they're good at, while trying to develop the other skills they may need. To me if you don't do either or you're wasting talent out there. You can sit there and think about the good ol days when every college team ran a pro system...lose and get fired, or adapt and overcome. I look at last nights game and Bill O'Brien, who's supposed to be some QB whisperer and offensive guru has his rookie QB sitting behind a porous offensive line against a good defense. Why not run some boot leg? Why not get your mobile QB on the move, some play action and let him do what he's good at. You decided 30 minutes of Savage was all you wanted to see...but why would you want to ruin the kid you drafted in round 1? If you're not going to develop on the bench you better adjust to what he can do NOW.
Rant over. What do you all think?
