Happy Players scare you?

[sportsman]

Wade has only been the Cowboys coach for a few months and it seem players on the defense are so happy. They believe Wade has changed the defense to better utilitze thier strength. As players are happy in May and June about the change. These early signs are that coach Wade has done his part to bring a winning defense to Dallas. So when training camp starts everyone should be ready to better prepare for the winning changes that has been made.

At the end of September and the start of October. If this defense isn't playing winning football. We all can look back and say..it isn't because of the coach..it's the players.

 

[iceberg]

Wade has only been the Cowboys coach for a few months and it seem players on the defense are so happy. They believe Wade has changed the defense to better utilitze thier strength. As players are happy in May and June about the change. These early signs are that coach Wade has done his part to bring a winning defense to Dallas. So when training camp starts everyone should be ready to better prepare for the winning changes that has been made.

At the end of September and the start of October. If this defense isn't playing winning football. We all can look back and say..it isn't because of the coach..it's the players.

pretty early for such blanket statements isn't it?

the "team" concept to me includes the owner,the coaches, and to a point, the fans. if the team fails the team fails, not one piece of it.

there's an awful lot of steps between today and tomorrow and statements like this make an awful lot of assumptions that may or may not carry forth on the road there.

 

[BouncingCheese]

pretty early for such blanket statements isn't it?

the "team" concept to me includes the owner,the coaches, and to a point, the fans. if the team fails the team fails, not one piece of it.

there's an awful lot of steps between today and tomorrow and statements like this make an awful lot of assumptions that may or may not carry forth on the road there.

Agreed 100 percent.

If we start losing, it won't matter how happy the players feel today....but then again I guess nobody will bring up that point up, and instead start to poke holes in other pies because hindsight is always 20/20, right?

 

[ZeroClub]

Wade has only been the Cowboys coach for a few months and it seem players on the defense are so happy. They believe Wade has changed the defense to better utilitze thier strength. As players are happy in May and June about the change. These early signs are that coach Wade has done his part to bring a winning defense to Dallas. So when training camp starts everyone should be ready to better prepare for the winning changes that has been made.

At the end of September and the start of October. If this defense isn't playing winning football. We all can look back and say..it isn't because of the coach..it's the players.

Part of being an effective coach is getting your players to buy into your system.

By all indications, so far, Wade and Garrett have done a truly outstanding job of this. Truly outstanding. These players couldn't be any more on board than they are now.

If the team isn't winning three or four months from now, it won't be because the coaches couldn't get the players to buy into the system.

If they aren't winning, it might be because of the coaches doing something else wrong (besides selling the players on the system) and/or because of the players.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Yes, happy players are absolutely a detriment to any team.

[/parcells]

 

[YosemiteSam]

Wade has only been the Cowboys coach for a few months and it seem players on the defense are so happy. They believe Wade has changed the defense to better utilitze thier strength. As players are happy in May and June about the change. These early signs are that coach Wade has done his part to bring a winning defense to Dallas. So when training camp starts everyone should be ready to better prepare for the winning changes that has been made.

At the end of September and the start of October. If this defense isn't playing winning football. We all can look back and say..it isn't because of the coach..it's the players.

So, it's the Ranger players and not the new coach Ron Washington that is causing the Rangers to not only be bad, but the absolute worst team in the Major Leagues? I mean, Ron Washington like Wade Phillips is a player coaches. The entire starting rotation ERA for the Rangers is above 6! (well, actually McCarthy just lowered his to 5.90!!) The Rangers have been atrocious and while the players are part to blame, they weren't anywhere near as bad as they are this year. I tattoo this right on the forehead of Ron Washington, John Hart, and Tom Hicks. Hicks was an idiot for firing Doug Melvin. He never should have forced Melvin to sign A-Rod, and he should have just let things go the way they were. He bought the team in 1998 as a division winning franchise, then by 2000 the winning was over and they've been a loser every since. To me the verdict is still out on Jon Daniels, but if Hicks and Hart are still pulling the strings behind the curtain; you can forget it.

 

[FLcowboy]

Wade has only been the Cowboys coach for a few months and it seem players on the defense are so happy. They believe Wade has changed the defense to better utilitze thier strength. As players are happy in May and June about the change. These early signs are that coach Wade has done his part to bring a winning defense to Dallas. So when training camp starts everyone should be ready to better prepare for the winning changes that has been made.

At the end of September and the start of October. If this defense isn't playing winning football. We all can look back and say..it isn't because of the coach..it's the players.

Well, yes, I sort of think I agree with some of what you are saying, which is to say maybe you are right, or maybe I am wrong.

The players are happy because their excuse for losing last year was the scheme didn't fit their particular skills. Never mind that scheme got them to December in pretty good shape to make a playoff run. In fact, the scheme last year was good enough to offset erratic quarterback play, which ultimately resulted in Romo replacing Bledsoe.

The only players I think who will benefit from Wade's scheme are Spears and Williams, both of who had bad seasons with respect to the "scheme."

So, going into training camp, the two players mentioned above had better produce at a much higher level.

If the Cowboys get into September and October, and are playing at last year's level, then we can assume the scheme, either the old one, or the new one, isn't working.

I'm betting on the Cowboys to be playing at a slightly higher level in September and October, and then in November, they will terrorize the league.

When December starts, the Cowboys will be ready to run the table all the way to next year's draft, holding the #1 pick, and of course, the #32 pick.

If this doesn't happen, then Wade Phillips is a bust, and Jerry can go after Bill Cowher.

 

[DallasEast]

Happy players do not scare me. Sad players do not scare me. Players who under perform do though.

 

[peplaw06]

Happy players do not scare me. Sad players do not scare me. Players who under perform do though.

Yep... happy players are great. Complacent players, not so much. If Wade can keep the players happy and performing at the top of their game, and make them hungry for wins, more power to him.

 

[Doomsday101]

As long as Phillips can get the players to go out and produce. There is no one way to coach players I have always felt the key is to get the players to buy into what your trying to do. How you go about it varies.