LarryCanadian
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I know we are not talking about 6 year olds here, but I am concerned about some things.
Where is the confidence. Where is the leadership from players and coaches.
Holy Crud! The game is tied or we are down by 3 points and if you look at our sideline, you'd think we were down by 30 points. The camera kept going to guys on the bench and they were lost looking.
To me that suggests ZERO confidence in the coaching staffs ability or willingness to adjust in game. The same Eagles blitzes worked over and over. The same safeties in coverage got beat over and over.
Adjusting is one thing and is being heavily debated on the board, along with playcalling. So putting that aside, where is the confidence or positive attitude. I'm a Parcell's fan, but how useful is staring and swearing at every player that makes a mistake and then proceeds to go out in game again and make twice as many mistakes because they are now extra underconfident and stiff. There is nobody lose and having fun on this team. McNabb is up by 3 points and he is tickling Reid, laughing etc. We have a lot of serious guys on this team. Ellis is a perfectionist that wants to leave the team if he can't be the best, but he is considered a leader. TO was trying to lead and he is probably the worst leader in the league to this point! Scared me to hear him being the guy rambling on in the scrum before the game. Bledsoe is not a loud guy and it's tough to lead when you are making 5 mistakes and getting killed out there. Watkins made a couple of mistakes. So what, he's a 5th round rookie. In some cases you need to go over there and lift this guys spirit and confidence, not trample it into the ground. It's like Parcell's negativity is contagious. Everyone seems scared to have a good time.
This team plays like that consistently against good teams. Tight, always worried we are gonna blow it. Afraid to make mistakes and then making them because of second guessing and being tight. Watch the game again and look at the body language of this team. The route running, the after turnover faces, the defeated/bewildered looks. We were never down more than 7 points after the first 5 stupid minutes and lead this game for a good while, yet you'd never know it.
Julius is better but still runs like he's afraid to screw up. Flo Adams is struggling with his decisions on who to pick up, which is why Reid and Johnson overloaded him and Gurode all game. It works.
The coaches are all stern faced. Our young assistants look worried to pump players up, and the trend is to dump all over them.
The players and coaches need to go out and get rip roaring drunk together (like the Japanese tradition where you can go get wasted and tell your boss and each other what you really think, and the next day everybody considers it to have never happened). This team needs to build some on field camraderie.
Bottom line is this TEAM IS CAPABLE OF BETTER THAN THIS. The players and coaches are getting in their own way and holding themselves back.
They are still not having fun out there, and still lack the ability to take control.
LarryCanadian
Where is the confidence. Where is the leadership from players and coaches.
Holy Crud! The game is tied or we are down by 3 points and if you look at our sideline, you'd think we were down by 30 points. The camera kept going to guys on the bench and they were lost looking.
To me that suggests ZERO confidence in the coaching staffs ability or willingness to adjust in game. The same Eagles blitzes worked over and over. The same safeties in coverage got beat over and over.
Adjusting is one thing and is being heavily debated on the board, along with playcalling. So putting that aside, where is the confidence or positive attitude. I'm a Parcell's fan, but how useful is staring and swearing at every player that makes a mistake and then proceeds to go out in game again and make twice as many mistakes because they are now extra underconfident and stiff. There is nobody lose and having fun on this team. McNabb is up by 3 points and he is tickling Reid, laughing etc. We have a lot of serious guys on this team. Ellis is a perfectionist that wants to leave the team if he can't be the best, but he is considered a leader. TO was trying to lead and he is probably the worst leader in the league to this point! Scared me to hear him being the guy rambling on in the scrum before the game. Bledsoe is not a loud guy and it's tough to lead when you are making 5 mistakes and getting killed out there. Watkins made a couple of mistakes. So what, he's a 5th round rookie. In some cases you need to go over there and lift this guys spirit and confidence, not trample it into the ground. It's like Parcell's negativity is contagious. Everyone seems scared to have a good time.
This team plays like that consistently against good teams. Tight, always worried we are gonna blow it. Afraid to make mistakes and then making them because of second guessing and being tight. Watch the game again and look at the body language of this team. The route running, the after turnover faces, the defeated/bewildered looks. We were never down more than 7 points after the first 5 stupid minutes and lead this game for a good while, yet you'd never know it.
Julius is better but still runs like he's afraid to screw up. Flo Adams is struggling with his decisions on who to pick up, which is why Reid and Johnson overloaded him and Gurode all game. It works.
The coaches are all stern faced. Our young assistants look worried to pump players up, and the trend is to dump all over them.
The players and coaches need to go out and get rip roaring drunk together (like the Japanese tradition where you can go get wasted and tell your boss and each other what you really think, and the next day everybody considers it to have never happened). This team needs to build some on field camraderie.
Bottom line is this TEAM IS CAPABLE OF BETTER THAN THIS. The players and coaches are getting in their own way and holding themselves back.
They are still not having fun out there, and still lack the ability to take control.
LarryCanadian
who knows.