drawandstrike
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Janoris Jenkins, who spent the 1st 4 years of his NFL career with the Rams before going to the Giants this season, said the other day Rams players were ordered to NEVER speak to the Ram's GM.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ayers-arent-allowed-to-speak-to-stan-kroenke/
Of course, the inference here is that this means outside of contract talks, but this is still troubling.
A thought I've had recently surveying the NFL over the past several decades is how many of these dysfunctional teams do not have people with real coaching experience in the GM role. Instead what they have are often former scouts or front office people who've never coached at any level of the game.
What I'm about to say might be controversial in the current NFL climate, but 1 of the biggest signs of someone who knows how to successfully build a football team and lead it to success is someone who's done it as a coach, even at the high school and football level. Survey the NFL and look at the people hired to be GM's in the league and how many of them are former head coaches or even assistant coaches with successful high school, college or NFL teams on their resume?
Practically none of them.
Most are former NFL scouts who've never coached at any level. Just because you might have some affinity for spotting and judging individual talent doesn't mean you know how to build a successful NFL team.
That's what coaches do. They have a vision for the team they want to build when they come into the job. Many good coaches have their own 'style' or 'brand' of football that they want to play, and the GM's job should be to help tailor personnel moves to complement and achieve the head coach's vision for the team.
The first sign of a dysfunctional franchise is that it's doing the exact opposite of what I just described in the preceding paragraph. Many teams in the league have longtime GM's who've never coached at any level who is close to the owner and what the team is doing is hiring coaches to try to fulfill the GENERAL MANAGER'S vision of the team he wants to build.
This is exactly backwards, and explains situations where guys like Harbaugh get forced out of San Francisco. Instead of working together to achieve the head coach's vision for his team, the head coach keeps having to fight the team's GM over the direction & vision for the team.
Jeff Fisher's real problem might be that he keeps accepting jobs with teams where the longtime GM in place has all the real power and is dictating personnel moves to him instead of trying to understand his vision for the team and catering to it.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ayers-arent-allowed-to-speak-to-stan-kroenke/
Of course, the inference here is that this means outside of contract talks, but this is still troubling.
A thought I've had recently surveying the NFL over the past several decades is how many of these dysfunctional teams do not have people with real coaching experience in the GM role. Instead what they have are often former scouts or front office people who've never coached at any level of the game.
What I'm about to say might be controversial in the current NFL climate, but 1 of the biggest signs of someone who knows how to successfully build a football team and lead it to success is someone who's done it as a coach, even at the high school and football level. Survey the NFL and look at the people hired to be GM's in the league and how many of them are former head coaches or even assistant coaches with successful high school, college or NFL teams on their resume?
Practically none of them.
Most are former NFL scouts who've never coached at any level. Just because you might have some affinity for spotting and judging individual talent doesn't mean you know how to build a successful NFL team.
That's what coaches do. They have a vision for the team they want to build when they come into the job. Many good coaches have their own 'style' or 'brand' of football that they want to play, and the GM's job should be to help tailor personnel moves to complement and achieve the head coach's vision for the team.
The first sign of a dysfunctional franchise is that it's doing the exact opposite of what I just described in the preceding paragraph. Many teams in the league have longtime GM's who've never coached at any level who is close to the owner and what the team is doing is hiring coaches to try to fulfill the GENERAL MANAGER'S vision of the team he wants to build.
This is exactly backwards, and explains situations where guys like Harbaugh get forced out of San Francisco. Instead of working together to achieve the head coach's vision for his team, the head coach keeps having to fight the team's GM over the direction & vision for the team.
Jeff Fisher's real problem might be that he keeps accepting jobs with teams where the longtime GM in place has all the real power and is dictating personnel moves to him instead of trying to understand his vision for the team and catering to it.
