Is being a top Game Day HC all that important anymore?

[BoysFan4ever]

I would guess if they weren't that important owners wouldn't be paying millions for their head guy.

Too bad our guy on game day sucks.

 

[burmafrd]

Responses are about as I figured considering the posters. Was hoping for some original thoughts but the usual suspects spew the party line.

 

[jnday]

What the heck, just leave Garrett in Dallas when the team has a road game. It sure as hell can't hurt.

 

[Wolfpack]

Responses are about as I figured considering the posters. Was hoping for some original thoughts but the usual suspects spew the party line.

Seriously, I think Dallas is your case study for what a team looks like with out a HC. Jason cant even decide who returns kicks on "his" team.

 

[jobberone]

With parity reigning supreme now in the NFL, your coaching staff is even more critical. With the head coach being the most important.

The problem in Dallas though is you can't judge coaches the same as you can the rest of the league. These coaches work for an insane owner who emasculates them while pretending he and his son are qualified to run the football operations.

So you have powerless coaches and no real personnel department. Good luck.

Take Sean Payton. He stood a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding here as a head coach. He goes somewhere sane and you see the kind of coach he really is.

Anyone who judges our coaches on a level playing field with the rest of the league just doesn't get the reality of the situation at Valley Ranch.

There is some truth in this. How much I really don't know. I suspect a little but it is poor cap management and drafting that has caused the most problems although Jerry has done on average a poor job picking HCs. Jerry is getting better as a GM. He's stopped the coaching carousel approach. The drafting and draft philosophy is getting better even though it still needs tweaking.

Garrett is still a work in progress. That will annoy some but it is what it is. He's here and the carousel has stopped. We'll see how this team progresses over the next few years. That'll annoy some more but it is the right approach once you've invested in a coach. We've assembled a pretty good coaching staff IMO. It'll probably get tweaked, too.

Finally, player acquisition has gotten better. I see that as the natural progression of cap improvement and better drafting which I attribute to Jerry, Stephen, Garrett, and the rest of the team.

As the Postman said, "Things are gettin' better".

 

[the_h0wey]

Used to be in the past when teams could still hide things a HC might have to adjust on the fly; but nowadays is that really his job anymore? the DC and OC are there to do that. How many times does a HC have to make a critical decision? When to go for it on 4th down; Or go for the FG. Outside of that just how much does a HC really do on a game day anymore?

Yes it is absolutely important. Watch the end of the Ravens game from 2 years ago. There was another game that year similiar to that, but I can't remember which.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It's absolutely critical.

The playing field in the NFL is not perfectly level, but it's not too far off. And if you don't have a coach that can coach the players up on game day, you're really behind the 8-ball.





YR

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Yes it is absolutely important. Watch the end of the Ravens game from 2 years ago. There was another game that year similiar to that, but I can't remember which.

This one?

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I actually think it's more important now then ever before. In the old days, before FA became so prevalent in the game, you had players come out of College Ball with a better understanding of schemes and situational adjustments. Now, because so many come out early and because of the way has changed so much on both sides of the ball, It think it's even more important. A lot of times, you have to adjust to things from series to series and while a lot of that is on the Coordinators and position coaches, I think you have to have a HC who understands the entire picture and how it fits into what you are trying to accomplish from a team concept point of view. With the way the league has adopted parity and how the talent levels are so much closer now, it becomes even more focused as to how you make game time adjustments. Offense and Defense have to work together and you need a guy who can tie those things and make the final call on what will work and how you are going to go about it.

Yeah, I think it's very important.

 

[Wolfpack]

There is some truth in this. How much I really don't know. I suspect a little but it is poor cap management and drafting that has caused the most problems although Jerry has done on average a poor job picking HCs. Jerry is getting better as a GM. He's stopped the coaching carousel approach. The drafting and draft philosophy is getting better even though it still needs tweaking.

Garrett is still a work in progress. That will annoy some but it is what it is. He's here and the carousel has stopped. We'll see how this team progresses over the next few years. That'll annoy some more but it is the right approach once you've invested in a coach. We've assembled a pretty good coaching staff IMO. It'll probably get tweaked, too.

Finally, player acquisition has gotten better. I see that as the natural progression of cap improvement and better drafting which I attribute to Jerry, Stephen, Garrett, and the rest of the team.

As the Postman said, "Things are gettin' better".

I don't think the coaching carousel has stopped. Look at the offensive coordinators or the defensive coordinators….3 each in 3 years. Thats Jerry still doing his knee jerk micro-manger GM thing which makes Jason a HC in title only.

 

[the_h0wey]

This one?

Bingo!

 

[Ren]

I can't count them, but Garrett alone has cost us numerous games per season. Run the clock out? Of course pass the ball every play. Inside the 5 on first down? Pas Pass Pass YEAH BABY!

We have a QB who loves to audible out of running plays, when he's successful he showered with praise when he fails Garrett gets blamed

 

[burmafrd]

There is some truth in this. How much I really don't know. I suspect a little but it is poor cap management and drafting that has caused the most problems although Jerry has done on average a poor job picking HCs. Jerry is getting better as a GM. He's stopped the coaching carousel approach. The drafting and draft philosophy is getting better even though it still needs tweaking.

Garrett is still a work in progress. That will annoy some but it is what it is. He's here and the carousel has stopped. We'll see how this team progresses over the next few years. That'll annoy some more but it is the right approach once you've invested in a coach. We've assembled a pretty good coaching staff IMO. It'll probably get tweaked, too.

Finally, player acquisition has gotten better. I see that as the natural progression of cap improvement and better drafting which I attribute to Jerry, Stephen, Garrett, and the rest of the team.

As the Postman said, "Things are gettin' better".

what really bothers me about talking as regards to investment, at what point does that become the only excuse?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

We have a QB who loves to audible out of running plays, when he's successful he showered with praise when he fails Garrett gets blamed

You act like he's not following the HC/OC's system.

Come on people, it's not like Romo is audibling to pass plays whenever he randomly feels like it. He's counting the box (or whatever the key is) and checking into the alternate playcall, just as he's instructed to do.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

With parity reigning supreme now in the NFL, your coaching staff is even more critical. With the head coach being the most important.

The problem in Dallas though is you can't judge coaches the same as you can the rest of the league. These coaches work for an insane owner who emasculates them while pretending he and his son are qualified to run the football operations.

So you have powerless coaches and no real personnel department. Good luck.

Take Sean Payton. He stood a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding here as a head coach. He goes somewhere sane and you see the kind of coach he really is.

Anyone who judges our coaches on a level playing field with the rest of the league just doesn't get the reality of the situation at Valley Ranch.

LOL, HC doesn't matter in Dallas!

 

[Little Jr]

Although I think ant hc would have a hard time here withh jj running the ship it doesn't take away the bad game day decisions that jg has made the past 3.5 years. Jj has nothing to do with that. We will be behind the 8 ball in at least 6 games this year because we will be out coached. Losing at least 3 of those games.

 

[Idgit]

Although I think ant hc would have a hard time here withh jj running the ship it doesn't take away the bad game day decisions that jg has made the past 3.5 years. Jj has nothing to do with that. We will be behind the 8 ball in at least 6 games this year because we will be out coached. Losing at least 3 of those games.

How out-coached are we really getting when we're playing for the division championship each year with a bottom-5 defense? Really? All coaches have decisions in close games that are second guessed. Yes, Jason has done a couple of really bone-headed things in games, but he's not costing us 3 wins/year. We're in bad tactical positions in games all the time because we cannot stop anybody from passing effectively against us and that's one of the two things that gets teams beat more often than not.

 

[Risen Star]

Although I think ant hc would have a hard time here withh jj running the ship it doesn't take away the bad game day decisions that jg has made the past 3.5 years. Jj has nothing to do with that. We will be behind the 8 ball in at least 6 games this year because we will be out coached. Losing at least 3 of those games.

And I'd counter that with you ignore the good decisions and focus on the bad. You also probably confuse a coaching decision for a QB audible.

To me, this is all nonsense. I'll care about the quality of the coaching when the talent is good enough to win something.

 

[TrailBlazer]

Responses are about as I figured considering the posters. Was hoping for some original thoughts but the usual suspects spew the party line.

No , you were looking for someone to agree with your idiotic statements. Are HC's important? Really? Look at the teams that win. They all have good coaches. The amount of money paid to coaches proves just how crucial it is to have a good one.

 

[Idgit]

No , you were looking for someone to agree with your idiotic statements. Are HC's important? Really? Look at the teams that win. They all have good coaches. The amount of money paid to coaches proves just how crucial it is to have a good one.

HCs are obviously super-important. The question is whether or not communications and process have evolved enough to make the in-game calls more of a team process than they used to be, where you're not relying on one single person as much as you used to have to. And I think that's probably the case. You can have people responsible for more information and have that information more readily available than you did before, and then the coach can rely on that information, discuss it quickly over the headset, and have that collective decision piped in to the QB or the defense in real time where, before, all that processing had to happen in one guy's head and had to be communicated via signals or on the sidelines. The faster the processing and the flow of information gets, the less it's dependent on any one person. That stands to reason, doesn't it?