I tried this once before, it didn't come across too well. Let me see if I can make it a little bit better this time. Lol how important is the culture of the locker room?. How important is it for a player to fit in. Is camaraderie truly part of the game. What happens to these plays during the week on and off the football field . does it reflect , how they will play on Sunday. When you go on a job interview it's a two-way street in my opinion. Is the company right for me and my right for the company.
Culture is HUGE. It is in fact often the difference between winning in the playoffs and not winning. In the NFL it can be best defined one of two ways- “How we do things around here” or “What we collectively do together to reach our goals”.
Talent alone is NOT enough. I would argue that the habits that Jerry breeds are usually not conducive to a strong NFL culture. It’s why we need a strong locker room coach to overcome that. Jerry’s meddling and adding bad chemistry to the locker room is something this team has had to overcome every year. It remains to be seen if it can be overcome. Jimmy was such a strong “culture builder”, he was able to keep Jerry’s bad instincts at bay. For a few years.
Hands down the best culture in the NFL for nearly two straight decades is New England. And it isn’t about just talent or coaching Xs and Os. Most of our fans don’t like to hear that but what makes Belichick coached teams great is their collective focus by all 53 men on the roster to in Belichick’s words, “Do your job”. It takes everyone. All 53. Every week. Sure NE has a great QB but so does GB. And they have won one SB with hiim as opposed to six.
A healthy, focused culture is the top of the organizational mountain. This owner does not value culture enough or he would have long ago stopped his immature habits of “playing with toy”. A mature owner wants to win bad enough he’s done “playing”.
