LarryCanadian
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Now I'm not of a football background, but do have a lot of experience in sports, playing, coaching and reffereeing, but please correct me if I'm wrong for being blown away that Dallas, as in trouble as it is, is CRAZY for having 2 practices this week?
To me, yes the Bye week is there to get healthy first. Fine. So don't run the guys that are injured, but make darn sure they are at rehab, in the ice tub, and getting massage FOR 13 DAYS!
Next. Does team/group film work not count for something. Especially preparing for a divisional opponent in a CRITICAL game after bye? These guys should be watching so much film of the Commanders that they know what each guy eats for breakfast. Also, how about watching film on all our plays from START of season for each player so that we correct mistakes and learn about our strengths (lets call those plays that work well or fit our players). It's catch up time NOT BREAK TIME!
Then, how about some walk throughs PLEASE. Like 10 of them. 1 hour each. Mental reps. Yes, we don't get physically tougher and improve tackling doing that, but we sure don't line up wrong or get defensive offsides or motion penalties by practicing the play call in slow-mo. Yet these things persist and cost us regularly. Maybe a corner or two can practice lining up 3 yards from a receiver WITHOUT backing up 5 more yards prior to to snap. This would be progress.
Lastly, how about building some teamwork and confidence? Many ex-players and reporters, and ex-coaches are suggesting this isn't a team. This is a group of highly talented individuals. They might have a point. So coaches/owner, force them to become a team. Make them be in each other's faces for 2 weeks. Let them rally by knowing they have to live together, not by telling them to go splinter off and show up twice.
I just don't get it. If I suck at work (lets say I'm a new employee, or doing a new task, or just performed poorly even if in tough circumstances) I know darn sure that taking more time off to relax IS not likely to help NEARLY as much as putting my nose to the grindstone and DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. This doesn't mean stay up 22 hours and then am tired. It doesn't mean I treat my body as a punching bag. It means study as a team. Communicate. Learn to stop pointing fingers. Do walk-throughs. Study the opponent. Discuss plays that you think will work. Watch film on yourselves to see what went wrong against other teams, so you can correct mistakes. Why do this. BECAUSE IT BUILDS CONFIDENCE. YOU FEEL PREPARED. You aren't bewildered on the field or sideline. You make fewer dumb mistakes. You make fewer BIG mistakes. There is less rust. You are mentally tougher. You communicate better. You are committed and engaged to winning, not taking a break.
I am completely baffled by this. I don't give a crap that this is the way the team has done it or coaches have done it for years. Few teams with as high expectations at this one are at such a crossroads where they are a loss or two away from not even making playoffs. This is the opportunity to turn it around, and no urgency shows. If I was a player on this team I'd try and call a player only meeting and do things myself.
I find this disrespectful to the players first, saying there is no accountability. For me it is more insulting to say, "you did your best" to an elite athlete, than it is to say, "damn, you are a hell of a lot better than this, and should be a winner, here's how I"m gonna help you, but it's gonna take 10 hours a day for next 2 weeks to get us back up that ladder!". It's like with children. Coaches need to provide the leadership and boundaries. Some of these guys are in early 20's, and come from no directional backgrounds, to expect them to find this in themselves, just because chronologically they are "men" doesn't mean anything. Even a guy like Ellis can be motivated. Does he look motivated out there?
Oh well, Rant Over, had to get that out there. But I don't see any reason that letting these guys have time out helps other than freshening the batteries, but compared to what 2 intense weeks of practice, in whatever form it might appear, I don't agree with it.
LarryCanadian
To me, yes the Bye week is there to get healthy first. Fine. So don't run the guys that are injured, but make darn sure they are at rehab, in the ice tub, and getting massage FOR 13 DAYS!
Next. Does team/group film work not count for something. Especially preparing for a divisional opponent in a CRITICAL game after bye? These guys should be watching so much film of the Commanders that they know what each guy eats for breakfast. Also, how about watching film on all our plays from START of season for each player so that we correct mistakes and learn about our strengths (lets call those plays that work well or fit our players). It's catch up time NOT BREAK TIME!
Then, how about some walk throughs PLEASE. Like 10 of them. 1 hour each. Mental reps. Yes, we don't get physically tougher and improve tackling doing that, but we sure don't line up wrong or get defensive offsides or motion penalties by practicing the play call in slow-mo. Yet these things persist and cost us regularly. Maybe a corner or two can practice lining up 3 yards from a receiver WITHOUT backing up 5 more yards prior to to snap. This would be progress.
Lastly, how about building some teamwork and confidence? Many ex-players and reporters, and ex-coaches are suggesting this isn't a team. This is a group of highly talented individuals. They might have a point. So coaches/owner, force them to become a team. Make them be in each other's faces for 2 weeks. Let them rally by knowing they have to live together, not by telling them to go splinter off and show up twice.
I just don't get it. If I suck at work (lets say I'm a new employee, or doing a new task, or just performed poorly even if in tough circumstances) I know darn sure that taking more time off to relax IS not likely to help NEARLY as much as putting my nose to the grindstone and DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. This doesn't mean stay up 22 hours and then am tired. It doesn't mean I treat my body as a punching bag. It means study as a team. Communicate. Learn to stop pointing fingers. Do walk-throughs. Study the opponent. Discuss plays that you think will work. Watch film on yourselves to see what went wrong against other teams, so you can correct mistakes. Why do this. BECAUSE IT BUILDS CONFIDENCE. YOU FEEL PREPARED. You aren't bewildered on the field or sideline. You make fewer dumb mistakes. You make fewer BIG mistakes. There is less rust. You are mentally tougher. You communicate better. You are committed and engaged to winning, not taking a break.
I am completely baffled by this. I don't give a crap that this is the way the team has done it or coaches have done it for years. Few teams with as high expectations at this one are at such a crossroads where they are a loss or two away from not even making playoffs. This is the opportunity to turn it around, and no urgency shows. If I was a player on this team I'd try and call a player only meeting and do things myself.
I find this disrespectful to the players first, saying there is no accountability. For me it is more insulting to say, "you did your best" to an elite athlete, than it is to say, "damn, you are a hell of a lot better than this, and should be a winner, here's how I"m gonna help you, but it's gonna take 10 hours a day for next 2 weeks to get us back up that ladder!". It's like with children. Coaches need to provide the leadership and boundaries. Some of these guys are in early 20's, and come from no directional backgrounds, to expect them to find this in themselves, just because chronologically they are "men" doesn't mean anything. Even a guy like Ellis can be motivated. Does he look motivated out there?
Oh well, Rant Over, had to get that out there. But I don't see any reason that letting these guys have time out helps other than freshening the batteries, but compared to what 2 intense weeks of practice, in whatever form it might appear, I don't agree with it.
LarryCanadian
