Fine without good coaching? Talent can mask poor coaching but without great play designs, strategies and adjustments great players can look mediocre. Championships are won when it’s a Union of talent and coaching,but I’m leaning more to the need of talent.
The Brady/Belicheck debate seems settled. Who gets credit for NE's 20 year reign? Brady and his arm, or Belicheck and his brain? Talent or Coaching? No one really knew how much of their success was player talent vs coaching genius, but now with NE imploding with their worse record in over 20 years (2-4) while Brady is flourishing with 1st place Tampa, it's becoming clear: Player Talent is by far the key to success. Without talent, even the all time Genius Bill Belicheck is a loser. How this applies to the Jets/Players/Gase? You decide.
It's not like Brady isn't playing for a great coach in his own right. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
And this is considering this is old Brady. Belichick had him in his prime. Still I think Belichick is a good coach, he learned from one of the best in Parcells. But he was given legendary status because he lucked out with the best QB of all time. And yes, he was lucked out, since picking the best football player in the history of NFL in 6th round is nothing but dumb luck. The story is not yet written here, but it sure looks like even old Brady was able to elevate his new team, while Belichick's Patriots look awfully lot like they did before Tom.
So that’s it, you don’t look any deeper than the points? You don’t think the lack of touchdowns had anything to do with the penalties, lost yardage, and scores called back? Here’s a few drives for example: Drive: at jets 30 yard line, false start and 11 yard loss on a McKenzie reverse. Drive: Long Td pass called back for illegal formation (replay shows the receiver actually signaled to the ref he was off the line prior to the snap). Drive: Perfect throw down the sideline to Kroft who should score, except he channels his inner Daniel Jones and inexplicably falls down. Drive: half time ends this one, had to kick a fg, no time left. No one is here bragging about JA’s performance, but to suggest he “struggled” is asinine. He marched up and down the field all day long and did whatever he wanted. Should have had 2 long td passes. Great play by the jets defender on an 11 yard loss to end another drive. A bunch of penalties on guys not names Allen. That score may have looked a ton different with those 2 tds. Btw, the bills offense didn’t punt all game. But yeah, just look at the final score and don’t go any deeper.
He certainly struggled in the red zone. You don't come away with 6 field goals and no touchdowns and think your QB did a good job. You aren't going to win many games without scoring a single TD unless you play the Jets. You cant make excuses or throw out what if's but those happen for both teams with drops, penalties, dropped INTs. Greg Williams gave Josh Allen short throws ALL day with soft coverage's and was trying to bait him into deep throws in tighter windows. Any QB against this defense has a ton of yards because of the soft zones he plays. Theres nothing special Josh did that hasnt been done to this team all year. When Josh played a real defense like KC last week, he showed his true colors.
Same scheme + same offensive philosophy = same results. It doesn't matter who the play caller is. Might as well let Sam call his own game at this point. What have we got to lose?
People think with great coaching you can just plug in any player and still be successful. I have to disagree although at on time I may not have. As a coach and former player I know better now. Have time is different than practice, tendencies, intellect, reaction, stamina, pressure.. the list goes in and on in terms of what makes one player different than another. Attitude, diet, physical measurements...Aldridge is not Duncan... Newton is not Brady. Coaches must tailor their system for player success That takes hard work when you get used to being successful doing things one way. Stubbornness does not allow flexibility and it may place you in a one way ride out of the stadium if your franchise is not patient until you find the right players to plug into your system. Look at the Steelers, look at the Cowboys. What’s going on? Same coach, did Tomlinson change or did he finally find the right players, are Dallas players not as good as some thought or is it two coaches in a row that lack ability?
And Belli has the #1 overall pick in QB Cam Newton. Brady has a new coach, Belli has a new QB. Let the games begin!
Don't know if anyone caught this but this pretty much sums up Darnold's problem. He's just not picking up the open man. You can't teach this - it has to come with experience or a trait that is branded in. Darnold has a very quick release so it should not be a problem to overcome this but easier said than done.
I attribute this - and a lot of the other problems Sam is showing - on the "snowball effect" of trying to overcome the shitty coaching. play calling, talent for 3 years. He's become gunshy - he's never fully recovered from "seeing ghosts" - and he tends to lock in on his primary target and is essentially blind to anyone else. The blocking still sucks, but TBF, he contributes to that by holding onto the ball too long - often because he's waiting for his primary receiver to get free - and isn't using the pocket well even when it holds. Right now the whole offense is a Gordian Knot of problems. The best solution at this point: "cut the knot" by firing Gase and his caddy.
