mrt144":2rjbcunr said:
sdog1981":2rjbcunr said:
After watching the NFL for almost 30 years the only thing that separates teams during the salary cap era is coaching and scheme.
Rams 7-9
New coach
Same players
12-4
To some extent, I think there is always going to be a 'fresh set of eyes and inspiration' spark to some teams with the right coach. I watched two different Ohio State teams win the NC in the 2nd season of their HC, Tressel and Meyer. The teams weren't radically different by virtue of college but what a different set of eyes and a new inspiring figure brought out in both teams resulted in big wins for OSU.
One could argue that McVay was a fresh set of eyes that adjusted a lot along the way schematically but also gave them something more inspiring than a tepid Fischer platitude.
It is not an abstract or "motivational" thing.
Mccvay brought 8 looks pre snap, each of those 8 looks have 3 to 4 possible plays off of them, with a mix of run or pass. This made/makes it nearly impossible for a defense to sell out to defend a specific look. That is incredible coaching and a scheme that just works. Obviously I have oversimplified that he only brought 8 looks, but when you break it down, it's pretty close.
We on the other hand run first, run second, pass 3rd. If you have the personnel to do this and succeed every time, then great, but we dont. We have the personnel to win 10 games and lose a wildcard. We have a cap space of 60 mil and change, very sparse draft picks, and alot of current players to re-sign. We will be lucky by opening kickoff next year to have the same level of players we had this year. If everyone is cool with 10 wins and a loss in the first round, then we have the coaches and horses to do this. If we aspire to more, then coaches have to bring more to the table not only from a scheme perspective, but from a development one as well.
We could have won more and possibly made it to the divisional with the same players and better ability to adapt with the players you have vs the ones you wish you had.
If you run a business and your competitor is constantly beating you selling the same products, then you can choose to look at what they are doing that makes their model work more efficiently than yours, and try to engineer something similar with added improvement, or...be stubborn and go out of business.
All I do for the last 20+ years is solve a multitude of problems daily to keep the machine turning, competitive and profitable. Never once when I get a call of a problem to I tell my guys to just keep doing the same thing that is causing the problem and hope it just goes away.
On the other side of that, it does no good to complain about a problem when you dont have a viable and realistic solution.
I.E.:
When you carry the ball 28 times for 73 yards, and one of those carries is a 28 yarder of those 73, all the while you are watching the opposing defense camp 8 guys at the line of scrimmage....It's mabe time to look at pushing the defense back with short and intermediate passing. I'm actually pretty stunned that so many folks on here just totally missed that in this game.