It's coaching and systems. Give Billacheat and his staff this team and we're on the way to a super bowl. Now I hate Billi check so this is no advertisement for him, just a system. It's looking at each player and putting his into a position to excel.
It not about putting players into a system you've been using for years and watching it fail. (US)
It was like the Rams , Vermeal and his old fart coaches, took a rag tag bunch of players and made super bowl champs.
It's all about keeping teams off balance, even under Norv, you knew it was E, Irvin, or Jay, but you never knew who? If you did think you knew who, it was Moose or Harper. That's why Norv was successful everywhere he went(offensively)
As I've said for years, in 2014 Scott built a offense featuring horizontal routes and huge RAC, the offense flourished. Unfortunately at the same time Rod starting to fall in love with the rush 3 and drop eight. In 2015 Scott went back to his base offense and everybody knew where the play was going. In 2016 he developed a hybrid offense for Dak, which was amazing, but alas, we slowly returned to his base again last year.
in the playoffs of 2016 Rod tried his vaunted bend but don't break, by the half it was game over. In the second half he began to attack and it was a different defense. Too little too late.
Hopefully we use aggressive varied systems, stick to them, and stay away from predictable patterns on both sides of the ball.
We have, and have had, the players to be a winner, it's the staff that needs to cross the finish line.