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The content of a great deal of posts after losses like the one against the Ravens have a similar foundation. The kvetching is endless and mostly emo posts about firing this guy or that. Disappointment removes most logic in this group of fans in this age. Not just Cowboy fans, but fans in general. It seems difficult to believe that so many have never thought about coaching and talent and where one's jurisdiction ends and the other begins. What is left behind is less analytics searching for the causal affects, and more grousing.
Parcells complained about the fact he was not the guy who got to, "pick the groceries." And in this nugget - and I am not a Parcells fan at all - is the truth about when players fail and who is at fault.
The coach has a scheme. And if talent is relatively even the coach feels he can capitalize on mistakes the other team makes and take the win. But the talent has to be able to work within the parameters of the scheme and execute.
So ask yourself this. Why are the Patriots 6-6?
Do you think Belichick suddenly lost his coaching mojo? He woke up the first day of the 2020 season and simply forgot how to win?
I don't know if McCarthy and Nolan have the goods to be exceptional coaches. But what I do know is when you watch this team play, and you see players in the wrong position, the coach did not teach them to be in the wrong position.
This team's defense fails because they get pushed all over the field up the middle. And the yin and yang of that statement means the edges are susceptible to getting gashed as the team hunkers down in the middle trying to stop the run.
They are easily put out of position because of lack of talent, and players not winning their personal challenges, while others try to compensate for the weaknesses this void in talent brings. Thus good players over compensate and are out of position.
Vander Esch was horribly out of position last night on a touchdown run. Part of it was the misdirection, along with him trying to compensate for tackles getting manhandled. If he fills the hole he makes the tackle and the Ravens don't have a long TD run.
Do you really believe Vander Esch's responsibility was to be out of position during that play? That the coaches taught him in meetings to ignore the gaping hole to his left and follow a decoy?
Vander Esch followed the QB just enough to pull him away from that hole. He is not a bad player, but one who has no real help and tried to dissect that play and make the tackle.
So Nolan and McCarthy both need competent players to be competitive. This goes beyond injuries this season. This is the basics of having the players which fit with the scheme and the ability to execute the scheme. They both may be average coaches, but what transpired last night was a gigantic lack of talent up the middle.
And for the people who will reflexively suggest Parcells took Quincy and made the play-offs, and McCarthy rode the coattails of Rodgers, both of those examples are too simplistic to fit the facts at hand.
Rodgers could execute McCarthy's offense. The real problems with him is he is a horse's butt. Much like Brady. Parcells motivated the team he inherited by being the Dallas coach. But they also played an easy schedule, and people took them as a push over and they ground out the wins.
This Dallas team does not have the defensive talent - or since the injury to Dak, and the OL the offensive talent to score enough to cover up the swinging gate of a defense.
And accepting this premise should really drain all hope, because the team needs players, and the cap will prevent bringing in real talent, even though the draft will bring in some.
And Jerry and Stephen are so far out of their league in constructing a team that plays tough on both sides of the ball, that no amount of luck and draft picks will change this team enough to be competitive next season.
This is about the lack of talent far more than the ability of the coaching staff.
Parcells complained about the fact he was not the guy who got to, "pick the groceries." And in this nugget - and I am not a Parcells fan at all - is the truth about when players fail and who is at fault.
The coach has a scheme. And if talent is relatively even the coach feels he can capitalize on mistakes the other team makes and take the win. But the talent has to be able to work within the parameters of the scheme and execute.
So ask yourself this. Why are the Patriots 6-6?
Do you think Belichick suddenly lost his coaching mojo? He woke up the first day of the 2020 season and simply forgot how to win?
I don't know if McCarthy and Nolan have the goods to be exceptional coaches. But what I do know is when you watch this team play, and you see players in the wrong position, the coach did not teach them to be in the wrong position.
This team's defense fails because they get pushed all over the field up the middle. And the yin and yang of that statement means the edges are susceptible to getting gashed as the team hunkers down in the middle trying to stop the run.
They are easily put out of position because of lack of talent, and players not winning their personal challenges, while others try to compensate for the weaknesses this void in talent brings. Thus good players over compensate and are out of position.
Vander Esch was horribly out of position last night on a touchdown run. Part of it was the misdirection, along with him trying to compensate for tackles getting manhandled. If he fills the hole he makes the tackle and the Ravens don't have a long TD run.
Do you really believe Vander Esch's responsibility was to be out of position during that play? That the coaches taught him in meetings to ignore the gaping hole to his left and follow a decoy?
Vander Esch followed the QB just enough to pull him away from that hole. He is not a bad player, but one who has no real help and tried to dissect that play and make the tackle.
So Nolan and McCarthy both need competent players to be competitive. This goes beyond injuries this season. This is the basics of having the players which fit with the scheme and the ability to execute the scheme. They both may be average coaches, but what transpired last night was a gigantic lack of talent up the middle.
And for the people who will reflexively suggest Parcells took Quincy and made the play-offs, and McCarthy rode the coattails of Rodgers, both of those examples are too simplistic to fit the facts at hand.
Rodgers could execute McCarthy's offense. The real problems with him is he is a horse's butt. Much like Brady. Parcells motivated the team he inherited by being the Dallas coach. But they also played an easy schedule, and people took them as a push over and they ground out the wins.
This Dallas team does not have the defensive talent - or since the injury to Dak, and the OL the offensive talent to score enough to cover up the swinging gate of a defense.
And accepting this premise should really drain all hope, because the team needs players, and the cap will prevent bringing in real talent, even though the draft will bring in some.
And Jerry and Stephen are so far out of their league in constructing a team that plays tough on both sides of the ball, that no amount of luck and draft picks will change this team enough to be competitive next season.
This is about the lack of talent far more than the ability of the coaching staff.
