CooterBrown
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I was considering (and blaming) the coaches for this crappy season and I started considering why these previously successful coaches (except for Nolan) are not getting more out of the players and I have a theory that you may or may not agree with. (Matters not to me, this is just my theory you are free to express your own.)
This is it in a nutshell: Most of these coaches lack ambition. They have had their day in the sun and are now coasting. Many of them have been head coaches (been there, done that). Yes, it is nice to have that experience to draw from, but the down side is that they aren't striving to make a mark as a great coach and thereby enhance their promotion chances. For most of them, that ship has sailed and they know it.
Jimmy Johnson was a single-minded driven man when he started coaching. He wanted to be the best and produce the best team ever, and to be recognized as the best. He absolutely refused to accept mediocrity from his assistants or his players. His assistants were mostly from the college ranks, not re-treads and they shared his ambition. So what happened to him in Miami? He was still a good coach, but he had "been there, done that." He lost his drive and thus his edge. He became complacent just like so many do after reaching the pinnacle of their profession.
And the problem with this team is that too many of the coaches, including MM, are complacent and happy to have a good paying regular gig. Does that mean they are bad coaches? Or that they have forgotten how to coach? Does that mean that they don't want to win? Not at all. What it means is that they do not have an inner fire to excell, and because they do not have it, they do not inspire that desire in the players they coach. "We'll do better next week or we'll do better next year" are just empty platitudes to fool a complacent owner who makes oodles of money regardless of the outcome of the games.
Jerry Jones needs to fire the entire staff, hire a good, young, hungry college coach (like he did when he bought the team) and let that coach bring in his own young staff of hungry coaches.
Re-treads fail faster than new, in tires and in coaches.
This is it in a nutshell: Most of these coaches lack ambition. They have had their day in the sun and are now coasting. Many of them have been head coaches (been there, done that). Yes, it is nice to have that experience to draw from, but the down side is that they aren't striving to make a mark as a great coach and thereby enhance their promotion chances. For most of them, that ship has sailed and they know it.
Jimmy Johnson was a single-minded driven man when he started coaching. He wanted to be the best and produce the best team ever, and to be recognized as the best. He absolutely refused to accept mediocrity from his assistants or his players. His assistants were mostly from the college ranks, not re-treads and they shared his ambition. So what happened to him in Miami? He was still a good coach, but he had "been there, done that." He lost his drive and thus his edge. He became complacent just like so many do after reaching the pinnacle of their profession.
And the problem with this team is that too many of the coaches, including MM, are complacent and happy to have a good paying regular gig. Does that mean they are bad coaches? Or that they have forgotten how to coach? Does that mean that they don't want to win? Not at all. What it means is that they do not have an inner fire to excell, and because they do not have it, they do not inspire that desire in the players they coach. "We'll do better next week or we'll do better next year" are just empty platitudes to fool a complacent owner who makes oodles of money regardless of the outcome of the games.
Jerry Jones needs to fire the entire staff, hire a good, young, hungry college coach (like he did when he bought the team) and let that coach bring in his own young staff of hungry coaches.
Re-treads fail faster than new, in tires and in coaches.
