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Why is horrific coaching so much more common in football than other sports?
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:47 pm
Based on the intricate and complex nature of the sport, you would think that only the MOST QUALIFIED AND HIGHEST IQ individuals would be on the sidelines wearing headsets, yet it seems like there are more boneheads and bonehead decisions in this sport than any other sport combined.
Coughlin should have been gone last year and he should be gone tonight, but he is surely not the only waterhead who holds the title of head coach of a major football organization/program.
Coughlin should have been gone last year and he should be gone tonight, but he is surely not the only waterhead who holds the title of head coach of a major football organization/program.
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Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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MOST QUALIFIED AND HIGHEST IQ individuals would be on the sidelines wearing headsets
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I was fine with the field goal. The issue was not handing off to Rashad Jennings on third down. Also, Manning snapped the ball at 20 seconds on a play that drive (after the ref kept asking the play clock to be reset).
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Dumb thread. Happens in all sports
And football isn't that complex. Get over yourself
And football isn't that complex. Get over yourself
This post was edited on 9/13/15 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Just because players don't execute correctly doesn't mean the coach made a bad call. It only takes 1 of 11 players to make a coach look like an idiot.
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I ponder this every day. They try to over think everything and end up out thinking theirselves 90% of the time. Sometimes you have to have some balls and throw the book out the fricking window.
Posted on 9/13/15 at 10:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The people critiquing them can't ID basic football formations. I think they will live
Posted on 9/14/15 at 12:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Coughlin should have been gone last year and he should be gone tonight, but he is surely not the only waterhead who holds the title of head coach of a major football organization/program.
Um...Coughlin is a pretty good coach, he's won two titles in NY and before that built an expansion team into a title contender.
Now, he does struggle at the same things some other good but not legendary coaches struggle at-- game management, but that's because there's a ton of different skill sets required by a head coach at any level-- building a program (recruiting/drafting/signing, etc), player development, strategy, opposition analysis, game management and clock management and almost no one is great at all of them.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 12:58 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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yet it seems like there are more boneheads and bonehead decisions in this sport than any other sport combined.
Google Brendan Rodgers
Posted on 9/14/15 at 1:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Because the season is so short in football everything is magnified and it leaves very little wiggle room from greatness to just average.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 8:45 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Better Question:
Why do football fans think they know better than the people hired to do the fricking job???
Why do football fans think they know better than the people hired to do the fricking job???
Posted on 9/14/15 at 8:48 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Apparently you don't watch baseball, where managers will consistently go against the percentages. Hell, you even have managers and GMs fighting with each other over who's starting.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 9:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Why is horrific coaching so much more common in football than other sports?
Better question is where are all of these brilliant coaches that never make mistakes?
Every coach is going to make decisions that make them look stupid at times. It's part of the business.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 9:32 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
There are some fricking terrible managers in baseball, and that's the easiest fricking sport to coach.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 10:00 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Baseball has the advantage of no clock. Decisions by a manager don't have to be made instantly.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 10:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'll pose another question. Are football coaches the most intelligent (or this thread's question least intelligent) of the major sports? We tend to assign a level of complexity to football that isn't given to most of other sports but is it? We know that know plays for the players is just memorization (just talking about knowing plays not executing or athleticism etc) and quite frankly any human can memorize plays. Obviously there are some very innovative and smart men to have coached the game in general i.e. Bill Walsh but is the average coach today really THAT intelligent? Something for Sloan Conf. to investigate.
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