So his resume seems to be mostly being from his dad's nuts. He played Lacross on the Rutgers team and long snapped a couple seasons of football. How the hell could this guy correct professional football players on technique. I've been coaching two seasons a year non stop for 7 years and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface. Like did these ******* make a deal with the devil. He will probably take over for the old man and haunt my Steelers fan grandkids.
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The guy has probably done nothing but study football throughout his life. Have you seen some of the background of these position coaches? They've coached positions they've never played.
I cant even tell if dude played HS football. It's like telling a world class musician they are off key when you never played a note.
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Hoody didn't exactly have a glowing resume when he started coaching and he turned out pretty good. He made his bones coaching defense but what little football he played was TE and C.
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He looks like a serial killer
Not really. You need not to be able to play an instrument to recognize when someone is playing out of tune.
Perhaps a better analogy would be Hunter Biden being on the board of directors for an energy company knowing absolutely nothing about the gas and oil industry.
These guys who are NFL coaches are coaching players at an NFL level. Though there is technique that can be bad at times, they’ve got the skills to play the position at a high level, and the technique that may be be in need is a level that can be focused on.
These coaches spend hours and hours on film study and the Xs and Os of the game. On the sideline they are working the chess match side of the game, not the technique. They are taking information from the players in person, and showing the players the big picture from up top, and working on in game adjustments.
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I do get what you are saying. These players are far more finished products then the ones I work with. But that also make the detail of the technique that much finer. So Stevo here coaches DB's even though he himself probably cannot even backpedal fluently. Now you take a guy like Artie Burns. He most likely has technique issues. He is big and fast has all the prerequisites of tangible. Why does he fail. Most likely his technique sucks. How is Steve going to be able to discern that at all. Hell to the untrained eye you could take 4 NFL guys and 4 CFL guys out and run drills and you won't know the difference.
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I don't think it's player technique but a different sort of technique they'd be hiring him for.................. ONE day Ernie is going to call in sick and all the technique isn't going to help.
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Playing the game is irrelevant to coaching... teams need to learn this... some ex players have the strategic capabilities to become coordinators or the teaching abilities to be a position coach, some may even have the managerial chops to be a head coach one day, but none of those jobs need playing experience...
Good teachers rarely have experience in the fields they teach
Most Great generals started out as officers from an academy, not as battlefield soldiers....
Good managers need to understand the work being done beneath them but don’t really need to have ground level knowledge of it...
Good teachers rarely have experience in the fields they teach
Most Great generals started out as officers from an academy, not as battlefield soldiers....
Good managers need to understand the work being done beneath them but don’t really need to have ground level knowledge of it...
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Some great coaches made for awful players. Just like most great players are horrible coaches.
A coach is nothing more than a teacher who has learned the correct application of something. Correct technique can be learned through study and observation of those who execute correctly.
The X&O stuff is study. You have a wealth of material you can draw from to learn. If you study it thoroughly you'll gain the knowledge.
Now when it comes to games what looks great on paper and planning sometimes isn't worth a damn if your guys can't execute. Which would go back to teaching,practice and TALENT enough to execute your well thought out battle plan.
Murphys Law you have to prepare for.
Ole Darth Cheat Hoodie is a Sun Tzu Art Of War disciple. Which explains his cheating and his attack methods. Which for them is always a teams weaknesses and taking away a teams biggest weapons.
Now if you devoted 50 hours a week for 2-10 years to the study of all things football you should have acquired a massive amount of knowledge.
If you have a guy with a photographic memory and a passion/obsession with football/problem solving,tactics..ect,you're in buisness.
A coach is nothing more than a teacher who has learned the correct application of something. Correct technique can be learned through study and observation of those who execute correctly.
The X&O stuff is study. You have a wealth of material you can draw from to learn. If you study it thoroughly you'll gain the knowledge.
Now when it comes to games what looks great on paper and planning sometimes isn't worth a damn if your guys can't execute. Which would go back to teaching,practice and TALENT enough to execute your well thought out battle plan.
Murphys Law you have to prepare for.
Ole Darth Cheat Hoodie is a Sun Tzu Art Of War disciple. Which explains his cheating and his attack methods. Which for them is always a teams weaknesses and taking away a teams biggest weapons.
Now if you devoted 50 hours a week for 2-10 years to the study of all things football you should have acquired a massive amount of knowledge.
If you have a guy with a photographic memory and a passion/obsession with football/problem solving,tactics..ect,you're in buisness.
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There is a big difference between not being a great player and never playing at all. Like ****** huge difference. Head Coach, ok maybe. This guy is a tactician and is very smart and someone else runs all the other ****. Early in my coaching I actually did that. I head coached teams with guys who knew a **** lot more about the game then I did. I just was able to build team, make some good on field decisions and was humble enough to know when I was out of my depth and let them coach their guys.
As a unit coach, you really gotta know your ****. Think about it this way. You are an NHL hockey coach and the head coach says go run practice and you can't skate worth a ****. How the **** does that look.
As a unit coach, you really gotta know your ****. Think about it this way. You are an NHL hockey coach and the head coach says go run practice and you can't skate worth a ****. How the **** does that look.
If his last name was not Belicheat, does any person on earth think he would be earning a very good living coaching the Patsies?!?
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Coaching the NFL is an aristocracy. Has been since the beginning of time.
You have to be part of the "club" to really effectively work there. Being an NFL coach is so unique, learning how to do it requires immense hands-on experience, that the true gatekeepers to the profession are those that HIRE the assistants. And we have given this soul power to head coaches (primarily) and nepotism is common and prevalent.
In many ways, the idea of a football coach going from High School to College to Pros doesn't really work. The game has become too big business for that type of meritocracy to be effective (as much as I would love to see it). Almost all paths to an NFL position lie in becoming an assistant or even an intern for a current NFL coach or team and then getting that coach to effectively lobby on your behalf moving up the ladder (or you attach yourself to the coattails of someone that becomes successful).
Not really sure how or if it's worth fixing. The job is unique (even more unique than college coaching). Hard to argue you don't need some hands-on experience to do it. And maybe it's a job that can be taught/learned just as much by being around coaching as being an actually player. It's not like the list of great coaches had resumes of being great players. Far more likely to play college and that's it (because you start the rise in the industry by getting a job as an intern or assistant right after college).
You have to be part of the "club" to really effectively work there. Being an NFL coach is so unique, learning how to do it requires immense hands-on experience, that the true gatekeepers to the profession are those that HIRE the assistants. And we have given this soul power to head coaches (primarily) and nepotism is common and prevalent.
In many ways, the idea of a football coach going from High School to College to Pros doesn't really work. The game has become too big business for that type of meritocracy to be effective (as much as I would love to see it). Almost all paths to an NFL position lie in becoming an assistant or even an intern for a current NFL coach or team and then getting that coach to effectively lobby on your behalf moving up the ladder (or you attach yourself to the coattails of someone that becomes successful).
Not really sure how or if it's worth fixing. The job is unique (even more unique than college coaching). Hard to argue you don't need some hands-on experience to do it. And maybe it's a job that can be taught/learned just as much by being around coaching as being an actually player. It's not like the list of great coaches had resumes of being great players. Far more likely to play college and that's it (because you start the rise in the industry by getting a job as an intern or assistant right after college).
Bingo. Not one chance in a billion. I have a background in Lacross. What are my chances of calling your defense in the NFL. That is like I watch a lot of TV hospital dramas. I'd like to try brain surgery.
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Some people get a degree and sit around and tell people what to do without ever working out in the field. I think the best people work their way up from the bottom, but i am not sure if that really applies to football. Steve has been around it all his life and who knows how much he has studied or analyzed game tapes. I think it would be harder without first hand knowledge, but definitely not impossible
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Depending on your last stay at a holiday inn express.........................
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Good point. I just thought, maybe someone should look closely. Perhaps the jack at the end of Steve's headset is connected to............nothing. Maybe he just talks into it and no one is on the other end. Good job Steve. You are terrific. Glad we were able to get you off that painful meth addiction by giving you a purpose in life.
