Colin Cowherd on HC/QB Personality Compatibility

[sureletsrace]

Colin Cowherd just brought up an interesting point.

Harbaugh/Kapernick - Alpha male, super aggressive competitors.
Payton/Brees - Cerebral, forward planning thinkers.
Belichick/Brady - Cerebral grinders, workaholics.

Here's the disconnect-
Jason Garrett- Ivy League brainiac.
Tony Romo- Backyard football gunslinger.

Could this personality conflict have anything to do with offensive struggles? Is this why we are often better when it's either one guy thinking or the other?

I'm sure this could just be fluff nonsense, but I like Cowherd and found it interesting.

 

[Machete]

I consider Garrett and Romo cerebral, competitors, workaholics, as well.

 

[DallasDomination]

Colin Cowherd is a funny guy agree or disagree, he's always cracking me up.

 

[Crown Royal]

Romo is a highly cerebral football player. He makes mistakes, but they are seldom for lack of understanding what is on the field.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I think if we weren't always falling behind early, (forcing Romo to throw 40 times and score over 24 pts to win) .. and had a dependable running game, (ie picking up first downs on 3rd and short, or punching it in on 4th and goal) .. Romo would be just fine.

 

[FiveRings]

No, and I really wish people would stop acting like Kapernick and the 49ers have been on top of the NFL for a decade now.

 

[InmanRoshi]

Colin Cowherd just brought up...

And there's where I stopped reading.

 

[BAZ]

Find me the coach compatible with Farve, Jim McMahon & Joe Nameth? Does Mike Tomlin like to corner victims in bathrooms? Who can even tell if Tom Coughlin and Eli get on.

 

[CashMan]

I think if we weren't always falling behind early, (forcing Romo to throw 40 times and score over 24 pts to win) .. and had a dependable running game, (ie picking up first downs on 3rd and short, or punching it in on 4th and goal) .. Romo would be just fine.

I wonder why this doesn't affect Peyton Manning...

 

[SDCowboy]

I was just listening to that segment and didn't even hear Romo mentioned. Must have missed it. Either way, Romo and Garrett seem to be about as similar as a QB/HC can get.

 

[Staubacher]

Romo is more than a backyard gunslinger. That's silly and ignorant. The guy has made himself into a very good QB from virtually nothing. You don't do that just chucking the ball around like a guy on a You Tube video

 

[DallasJ7]

Colin Cowherd is a snob with consistently obnoxious opinions. He's annoying and arrogant, and I have no idea how his show is so popular.

Anyway....other than being very hard-working/attention-to-detail guys, I think Brady and Belichick are actually different in quite a few ways. Many great QB/HC combos have had different personalities. A QB doesn't have to be like his coach to have a great rapport with him and have a compatibility that will show positive results. And in any case, those descriptors for Garrett and Romo are common perceptions taken to the extreme; it's a superficial way of comparing them.

 

[Idgit]

Good thread idea. Is Kapernick a hypercompetitive alpha-male? That's not how I think of him.

Tony and Jason have very different personalities, but one of the things I've always liked about JG in Dallas is the idea that he and Tony are pretty similar philosophically in terms of how they approach player development. Now, most of that is probably Tony buying into what Jason's selling, but Tony's a cerebral player himself underneath the smiling and clowning on haircuts.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Colin Cowherd just brought up an interesting point.

Harbaugh/Kapernick - Alpha male, super aggressive competitors.
Payton/Brees - Cerebral, forward planning thinkers.
Belichick/Brady - Cerebral grinders, workaholics.

Here's the disconnect-
Jason Garrett- Ivy League brainiac.
Tony Romo- Backyard football gunslinger.

Could this personality conflict have anything to do with offensive struggles? Is this why we are often better when it's either one guy thinking or the other?

I'm sure this could just be fluff nonsense, but I like Cowherd and found it interesting.

I heard it and agreed with all of it until I read some of the posts below and now I'm rethinking his take on Romo and Garrett.

 

[Sportsbabe]

No, and I really wish people would stop acting like Kapernick and the 49ers have been on top of the NFL for a decade now.

Also include RGIII in that category. Today's media is so superficial and lacking in perspective.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Landry was cerebral and Staubach was a gunslinger. They seemed to make it work.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Find me the coach compatible with Farve, Jim McMahon & Joe Nameth? Does Mike Tomlin like to corner victims in bathrooms? Who can even tell if Tom Coughlin and Eli get on.

With all due respect, this is about quarterbacking not about personal conduct ... lets be adult about it.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Landry was cerebral and Staubach was a gunslinger. They seemed to make it work.

I don't consider Staubach a gunslinger. Just because he was able to escape the pressure and get the ball down the field doesn't make him a gunslinger. A gunslinger to me is a QB who tries to make a play out of no play.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Favre was a backyard gunslinger. Holmgren was cerebral. They won a Super Bowl together. All is well.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

I don't consider Staubach a gunslinger. Just because he was able to escape the pressure and get the ball down the field doesn't make him a gunslinger. A gunslinger to me is a QB who tries to make a play out of no play.

That was Staubach: Roger the Dodger!