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Most academic definitions will define Leadership as the act of leading a group or organization. However, most clinical definitions will not elaborate on the fitness of the followers or the willingness of the followers to follow good leadership.
During the off-season, Sapp raised a stupid but interesting point about Romo not being able to lead because he is from Eastern Illinois. This point has nothing to do with Romo's ability to lead but it has everything to do with the stilted mindset of some veterans.
Like the old axiom stated, "You cannot teach an old dog new tricks", there is a lot of truth to that. Notwithstanding the old saying, not all old dogs cannot be taught new tricks, but the rule does holds sway with the majority. No matter what Romo accomplished on the field, it would be never good enough for fools like Sapp. Not saying that the sentiment was pervasive throughout the older OL here but filling voids of leadership without allowing the leader to do so can be equally damaging. Who will the OL likely listen to when they need to get their heads out of their rear? Romo? Davis? Colombo? Gurode? Suppose they listen to someone that has their head up their rear too, see what I mean?
For example, I am currently in the position of leadership as a lead engineer. Before adding one of my older colleagues to my group, we had a 99.8% first time quality on all of our releases and 98% on time delivery, all with young first and second year engineers. All of my young guys are hungry and easily directed but the new older guy constantly makes unilateral decisions that conflict with my directives. In some cases the decisions are better but the type of engineering that we are doing, we cannot implement a different method, unless the entire integrated product team is informed. When called on it, he sulks becomes distant, conforms, and then reverts to his old trying to steer the ship methods, thank goodness he is retiring soon.
. As a result of his free lancing, the mechanics see something different that is not necessarily wrong, raises a flag, gets QC involved, only to find out that there is nothing wrong. Time and money is wasted because the individual rowed in a different direction.
With the recent cuts of Davis, Gurode, and Colombo, and the not so recent cut of Adams, Romo is now surround by malleable offensive lineman that will respond to him when he scolds them after missing an assignment that leaves him lying on his back.
Statistically speaking and personality wise it is easy to see that Romo is a leader but we have had some terrible followers and it started up front with the OL. Call it entitlement or the inflexibility of an old dog not wanting to change. How many times have you seen Romo knocked on his rear with Davis and Gurode not offering to fix his shoulder pads or offer him a hand up? Mind you as I have said earlier, not all old dogs are this way. Kosier, is the consummate professional and like many of the old timers that I have had the pleasure of working with, he understands and responds to change.
Besides, being a good player, Kosier has been a good soldier throughout. He is clearly an old dog that is willing and able to learn new tricks. Speaking of soldiers, there is a reason why the military does not actively recruit from older demographics; they are too hard to control and too set in their ways to conform. The strength of any organization whether it is football or company, etc, is the ability to conform around a specific goal and for the individuals to do what they suppose to do when it is time to do it.
In my opinion, our OL will be stronger because we now have some good soldiers who will work to get better and not stagnate because they already know it all.
I will leave y'all with a coach Duhe quote, my former defensive coordinator,
During the off-season, Sapp raised a stupid but interesting point about Romo not being able to lead because he is from Eastern Illinois. This point has nothing to do with Romo's ability to lead but it has everything to do with the stilted mindset of some veterans.
Like the old axiom stated, "You cannot teach an old dog new tricks", there is a lot of truth to that. Notwithstanding the old saying, not all old dogs cannot be taught new tricks, but the rule does holds sway with the majority. No matter what Romo accomplished on the field, it would be never good enough for fools like Sapp. Not saying that the sentiment was pervasive throughout the older OL here but filling voids of leadership without allowing the leader to do so can be equally damaging. Who will the OL likely listen to when they need to get their heads out of their rear? Romo? Davis? Colombo? Gurode? Suppose they listen to someone that has their head up their rear too, see what I mean?
For example, I am currently in the position of leadership as a lead engineer. Before adding one of my older colleagues to my group, we had a 99.8% first time quality on all of our releases and 98% on time delivery, all with young first and second year engineers. All of my young guys are hungry and easily directed but the new older guy constantly makes unilateral decisions that conflict with my directives. In some cases the decisions are better but the type of engineering that we are doing, we cannot implement a different method, unless the entire integrated product team is informed. When called on it, he sulks becomes distant, conforms, and then reverts to his old trying to steer the ship methods, thank goodness he is retiring soon.
. As a result of his free lancing, the mechanics see something different that is not necessarily wrong, raises a flag, gets QC involved, only to find out that there is nothing wrong. Time and money is wasted because the individual rowed in a different direction. With the recent cuts of Davis, Gurode, and Colombo, and the not so recent cut of Adams, Romo is now surround by malleable offensive lineman that will respond to him when he scolds them after missing an assignment that leaves him lying on his back.
Statistically speaking and personality wise it is easy to see that Romo is a leader but we have had some terrible followers and it started up front with the OL. Call it entitlement or the inflexibility of an old dog not wanting to change. How many times have you seen Romo knocked on his rear with Davis and Gurode not offering to fix his shoulder pads or offer him a hand up? Mind you as I have said earlier, not all old dogs are this way. Kosier, is the consummate professional and like many of the old timers that I have had the pleasure of working with, he understands and responds to change.
Besides, being a good player, Kosier has been a good soldier throughout. He is clearly an old dog that is willing and able to learn new tricks. Speaking of soldiers, there is a reason why the military does not actively recruit from older demographics; they are too hard to control and too set in their ways to conform. The strength of any organization whether it is football or company, etc, is the ability to conform around a specific goal and for the individuals to do what they suppose to do when it is time to do it.
In my opinion, our OL will be stronger because we now have some good soldiers who will work to get better and not stagnate because they already know it all.
I will leave y'all with a coach Duhe quote, my former defensive coordinator,
