Dre11
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As I have said, talent on the field makes mediocre coaching talent better, good coaching talent much better, and top flight coaching talent champions. Jimmy had an advantage because he could pick his players. But I doubt there is one person on this site who actually thinks Garrett could pick his nose, much less create a roster of champions..
As I stared in another response to someone else, follow Garrett's success. Find the hire date of Will McClay and see how that fits with the success if Garret.
You get him talent he can rise as much as the talent will take him, but he cannot make the talent play to their peak because he is a weak leader that is indecisive, doesn't understand the risk reward aspect of gambling at the right time, and doesn't come across as a real leader in many, if any aspects of his nature. Not to mention his subversion of Wade Phillips, which reveals a lack of character. This is not like Belichick cheating. This is leading the team to lose to get a job. And after Wade left that was an interesting conversation among the radio hosts and a couple of former offensive players how the game plans and passing routes changed from the week before to the week after, and the offense opened up. And that is where I soured on Opie.
He's just a smart guy that rose past his ability to coach. And in my opinion, that passing point was when he became the offensive coordinator.
Just my opinion.
Ahhh, you haven't been paying attention, it was Garrett idea to rebuild the team from the oline, it was Garrett idea to improve the ground game. In fact, Broddaus( I know folks despise him) but he around the organization, talks to the Stephen and folks within the team, he's said the organization consider Garrett as a very good talent evaluator and that they value his input on players. So unless you're around the team is say you might be off base. Jimmy had the fortune of coaching when you could buy any player you want and keep them. Folks do like to refer back to Jimmy and what he done, but he had a huge advantage. As far as coaching talent , I haven't seen no coach win anything significant with subpar talent, not even Jimmy.