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being stubborn or being stupid?
stubborn is sticking to your scheme.
Stupid is refusing to adjust it when its become obvious its not working.
Stubborn is trying to force your players to play YOUR way when they made it to the highest level of football playing THEIR WAY.
Stupid is consistently running off anyone who doesnt conform completely to your way including the best player on your roster.
Stubborn is forcing a scheme that you want to run when the team isnt ready. Like spurrier running a pass heavy offence with power running olinemen.
Stupid is ignoring the cost/benefit ratio for doing it.
I am not a professional head coach, the highest level Ive coached is university as a guest coach and semi pro as a DC on several teams that had great defences, but in reality my level of knowledge shouldnt be even remotely close to a guy who has access to pro film and pro scouting reports, so why then am I consistently right and our supposed pros consistently wrong? I would like to believe its my huge brain and awesomeness, but truthfully its because unlike them, I dont allow my ego to make my decisions. I love this team so all I want is to win, not to pad my legacy. I base what I say on what I see, and I have nowhere near the access that these guys do and thats scary.
This is not a pat me on the back thread, I saw someone accuse jimbo of that because a lot of what he predicted came true and he had the temerity to say so, this is me reiterating what a ****show this season is and expressing my dismay that some guy on a couch in northern alberta saw it coming and people getting millions of dollars didnt. (and im not the only one lol)
We are running the 3-4 because Shanny watched some film on the steelers and decided to run it without even looking at our roster. I don't even know what to say about that level of stupid. Pardon the pun its indefensible.
We traded high draft picks in a rebuilding year because shanny wanted an elway clone to work his magic with again without really watching film. The man is a genius, the only explanation is he didnt do his homework on this.
We lost our best defencive lineman in decades because our coach wanted to measure dinks in the media. Shanny has a history of doing this. when we needed a coach who understands players we got one who doesnt try.
What we need is more people to express their displeasure of watching as this team wastes huge amounts of resources to fix what wasnt broken, when it needs to fix what is. We need people not to fall into the trap of listening to the surface oriented media when our problems are deep rooted.
We need more people to understand that this is about multiple seasons of crap, THAT WE PUT UP WITH, WITH THE HOPE THAT WE WOULD AT LEAST HAVE SOME BENEFIT FROM THEM. We spent a decade building that defence and now on the cusp of being very good, we are now expected to swallow being crappy again because of someones whim? and people wonder why some of us are so angry about this? has anyone else noticed that when you sign big name egotistical coaches they make the EXACT SAME MISTAKES? Spurrier forced an ill suited scheme,Shannahan ditto.
We need Shannahan to show that he is capable of rational thought.
I know I cant be the only one who looks at this season and wonders what if?
the Ravens went to a superbowl with a superlative defence and a strong running game, and IMHO we were close to having a strong defence. im not saying we should be in the playoffs but how are we so much worse than last year?
If Shanny doesnt admit that the 3-4 is a failed experiement and sticks to his quote about how it "just needs time" I will continue to point out every failure because the truth is simple, the issues we have with this scheme are not solved by time, its A- a bad scheme (not just because its a 3-4 either lol)by a poor coord and B- a bad fit with the players we have.
Next off season almost the entire Offence will need upgrading, thats what we brought shannahan here to do LAST YEAR. FIX THE OFFENCE, if it was defence that was our problem we would have hired a defencive Head coach. It actually bugs me that Shannahan is so involved with the defence considering he has never shown an inkling of a clue defencively and he isnt starting now. if our offence was a top 5 unit I could understand. but its not SO SPEND YOUR TIME FIXING IT.
Here is my point, and I hope to god that it happens.... Ive thought about it a lot lately....
I honestly think what Snyder needs to do is hire a DC and give him complete autonomy, tell Shannahan to take his kid and go watch film and concentrate on getting this offence up to par. then tell the DC to make a scheme that will work with what he has and with minimal commitment to resources THIS OFFSEASON. thats how most teams do it, unless an HC has a background in being a DC I have never heard of one forcing schemes on the DC before. let him know he can have some free agents but the draft needs to go for offence, let him know that this season will be about him showing that he can use what he has, and that next offseason we will commit more resources to the defence once we get the O going.
I know its logical, makes sense and would give us some hope, exactly why im sure we will stick to the 3-4 be disgusting bad again next year and shanny will be gone by the end of next season, leaving us in worse shape than when he got here. but dont mind me, its not like I predicted anything correctly before.
stubborn is sticking to your scheme.
Stupid is refusing to adjust it when its become obvious its not working.
Stubborn is trying to force your players to play YOUR way when they made it to the highest level of football playing THEIR WAY.
Stupid is consistently running off anyone who doesnt conform completely to your way including the best player on your roster.
Stubborn is forcing a scheme that you want to run when the team isnt ready. Like spurrier running a pass heavy offence with power running olinemen.
Stupid is ignoring the cost/benefit ratio for doing it.
I am not a professional head coach, the highest level Ive coached is university as a guest coach and semi pro as a DC on several teams that had great defences, but in reality my level of knowledge shouldnt be even remotely close to a guy who has access to pro film and pro scouting reports, so why then am I consistently right and our supposed pros consistently wrong? I would like to believe its my huge brain and awesomeness, but truthfully its because unlike them, I dont allow my ego to make my decisions. I love this team so all I want is to win, not to pad my legacy. I base what I say on what I see, and I have nowhere near the access that these guys do and thats scary.
This is not a pat me on the back thread, I saw someone accuse jimbo of that because a lot of what he predicted came true and he had the temerity to say so, this is me reiterating what a ****show this season is and expressing my dismay that some guy on a couch in northern alberta saw it coming and people getting millions of dollars didnt. (and im not the only one lol)
We are running the 3-4 because Shanny watched some film on the steelers and decided to run it without even looking at our roster. I don't even know what to say about that level of stupid. Pardon the pun its indefensible.
We traded high draft picks in a rebuilding year because shanny wanted an elway clone to work his magic with again without really watching film. The man is a genius, the only explanation is he didnt do his homework on this.
We lost our best defencive lineman in decades because our coach wanted to measure dinks in the media. Shanny has a history of doing this. when we needed a coach who understands players we got one who doesnt try.
What we need is more people to express their displeasure of watching as this team wastes huge amounts of resources to fix what wasnt broken, when it needs to fix what is. We need people not to fall into the trap of listening to the surface oriented media when our problems are deep rooted.
We need more people to understand that this is about multiple seasons of crap, THAT WE PUT UP WITH, WITH THE HOPE THAT WE WOULD AT LEAST HAVE SOME BENEFIT FROM THEM. We spent a decade building that defence and now on the cusp of being very good, we are now expected to swallow being crappy again because of someones whim? and people wonder why some of us are so angry about this? has anyone else noticed that when you sign big name egotistical coaches they make the EXACT SAME MISTAKES? Spurrier forced an ill suited scheme,Shannahan ditto.
We need Shannahan to show that he is capable of rational thought.
I know I cant be the only one who looks at this season and wonders what if?
the Ravens went to a superbowl with a superlative defence and a strong running game, and IMHO we were close to having a strong defence. im not saying we should be in the playoffs but how are we so much worse than last year?
If Shanny doesnt admit that the 3-4 is a failed experiement and sticks to his quote about how it "just needs time" I will continue to point out every failure because the truth is simple, the issues we have with this scheme are not solved by time, its A- a bad scheme (not just because its a 3-4 either lol)by a poor coord and B- a bad fit with the players we have.
Next off season almost the entire Offence will need upgrading, thats what we brought shannahan here to do LAST YEAR. FIX THE OFFENCE, if it was defence that was our problem we would have hired a defencive Head coach. It actually bugs me that Shannahan is so involved with the defence considering he has never shown an inkling of a clue defencively and he isnt starting now. if our offence was a top 5 unit I could understand. but its not SO SPEND YOUR TIME FIXING IT.
Here is my point, and I hope to god that it happens.... Ive thought about it a lot lately....
I honestly think what Snyder needs to do is hire a DC and give him complete autonomy, tell Shannahan to take his kid and go watch film and concentrate on getting this offence up to par. then tell the DC to make a scheme that will work with what he has and with minimal commitment to resources THIS OFFSEASON. thats how most teams do it, unless an HC has a background in being a DC I have never heard of one forcing schemes on the DC before. let him know he can have some free agents but the draft needs to go for offence, let him know that this season will be about him showing that he can use what he has, and that next offseason we will commit more resources to the defence once we get the O going.
I know its logical, makes sense and would give us some hope, exactly why im sure we will stick to the 3-4 be disgusting bad again next year and shanny will be gone by the end of next season, leaving us in worse shape than when he got here. but dont mind me, its not like I predicted anything correctly before.