JackMagist said:
That is the job of the coaches and the reason that they bear the ultimate responsibility. Certainly the players bare some blame for things going wrong. But the coaches are supposed to design schemes to play to the strengths of the players and protect their weaknesses. It is also their job to find among the players brought to them by the scouts and Bill Parcells the ones with the most talent and to teach them how to use it.
For instance the coverages that the players were playing against Santana Moss were designed and called by the coaches; coaches who know the capabilities of the players involved. One breakdown was not such a big thing but calling the same coverage and not making the adjustment after the first TD was inexcusable and it was the coaches who stuck with the same scheme after the weakness was exposed. The coverage failed because coaches misjudged the abilities of the players; it failed a second time because the coaches made no change to the coverage after it was exposed as a flawed scheme. The COACHES cost us that game.
The coaches have cost us two now, imo.
Bill did a phenomenal job his first year in Dallas - put his imprint on the team in the true Parcells mode - which is that players may have marginal talent but most will play to their potential, and a few over reach it.
Last year the colossol hubris reigned that coaching could compensate for anything, and fortunately, Bill saw the error of that arrogance.
But this year there is enough talent, and a sweet enough mix of vets and rookies to compete...this micromanaging and prevent mentality looks like its stifling the entire team (sans Keyshawn..he's the only one with the noticable nerve to just play the game his way.)
I don't blame Bill for wanting to nitpick Bledsoe flaws right out of his game, but please..no one is going to accuse you of running a wco if occasionally you open up the run with the pass. Last week the coaches evidently understood a weakness in Oakland's D is underneath to the TE...but after the half it looked like they forgot it.
This team needs a healthy dose of excitement. Impact, early leads, momemtum. For its own good, if not ours. The return specialists are marginal, so it won't come from there. Ware is not yet LT so it won't come from there. Maybe Tnew will go on a little ball hawk run and that will do it, or maybe Bill will actually play Terry and Price a few sets together and scare a few defenders out of the box.
The play calling probaly doesn't leave as much to be desired as it looks, if only some impact element was always bubbling beneath the surface, and I don't mean trick plays.
Bill keeps saying rookie mistakes won't keep potential high impact players like Tyson Thompson off the field, yet in the next breath he's cataloging "mental errors" again, sounding like some anal grammarian worrying over a student essay or a corporate bean counter obsessing over a missing tenspot. End result, in my guesstimation, is your potential impact player freezes up and plays like a robot.
Seriously, who was the last HC who offered up mental error counts at the PC after the game? Points, yards, sacks, pocks ...those are worth counting..hearing the litany of dumbarse mistakes yet again....ok, we get it, Player X missed a blitz pickup. So do players on other teams, and they sometimes still manage to win.
The level of control has become a bit absurd. I think it's high time for some of Bill's vets to have a lil talk with him "No, we won't be throwing the ball because we HAVE to like last year, but because we CAN".
