funny is funny. BTW, I am a fan of JG but I've always wondered if he would fit better as Jerry's assistant GM instead of the teams HC.Any question coming from you makes me laugh also as last time you went off about your exploits on here and I told you to get a room you went the report route.
Players need to spend time alone on any stretch and mental aspects of the game. Then show up for more of the same with the trainers and staff. It is long hours of being around the gym feeling comfortable with yogas and the like. This is why players who are gym rats have a better chance to help the team. Film study playbook study and reps, strength training and being on the field with the entire team. There is no definitive answer but real football players know. This team may lack the leader needed to win. Michael Irvin was a leader on the field. And get out of here with you're training plan differences. Any fool can babble some nonsense but if you are not on the inside it is all a hypothesis.
The Tower of Babble got destroyed in old times of Sodom
and Gomorrah, how it was done, at least I can only surmise.
On topics of leadership and products that arise from quality there, I was in the Army. There are intense applications involving just that, as well as schools that one attends as he rises in ranks, to identify and train qualities that are transferable in an instructive/training structure. Football is bound by this none-the-less. Don't be naïve on principals of direction and leadership. There is an analysis as well as incorporated with structured after event analysis and additional planning involved. But the direction and development of those supporting mission, whether this is the M1A1 Abrams with a 120mm main gun, or a football team, are simply, similar.
Tasks are given to players to assist in their individual development. Yea, that includes playbooks, intense film study, small unit technique practices...as well as a progression form OTA's through Training Camp.
But that progression integrates individual actions into team actions. That is upon the concept of crawl, walk, and then run.
At this point, things are merely pointing towards the run phase, when the season starts.
Jason Garrett, first off, he's no one's fool. He is from a football family, that laid deep roots before he even reached the NFL. He has some Rings of his own as a player. He has the experience of staffs from a multiple of teams, both as a player and as a coach. Jason, having graduated from Princeton. The entrance to that place was highly competitive when he entered it's doors. Challenge and training thought process was upon great demand from the start there.
But what you are pointing towards, are valid indicators...but understand those and how those interface now, one has to first step back and observe a generalized series of events.
The very first, was when the team was transferred at a season's mid-way point to Jason, the brought the team back together and they responded with winning. That is no small indicator of leadership.
He then had to walk his team through a new NFL contract, with penalty, and completely rework an offensive line at four positions from the start. That is no minor task without any additional needs. Well, he has accomplished that top of the list need, since the defenses at the top of the NFC are some of the NFL's best. So, that was where available opportunity had to be applied. That is great insight as well as leadership.
Last season, he defensive front and linebackers dropped out as if engaged in actual battle. He was left with green troops. To continue to take those green soldiers to battle, and retain terrain traveled, is nothing short of very good leadership. Pie chart sophistications or not.
He held line!
Now, through the past three camps, the mood has continued to grow, and an aggressive nature was shown this year...not a strawberry cupcake, or even a chocolate one. There were no less that four legitimate fights in two and a half weeks. That, folks is intensity.
As to injury, step back again, and observe. The team is giving game time to players who needs the greatest amounts, when and how the opportunity arises. Wonder about who is starting at MLB? Wonder no more, but the degree of talent in three players at the position are now known.
But on the injury point, the team, unlike Bill Parcells, isn't going into the season greatly hindered by accumulated injuries in starters. Most of the starters from game one, should be at a relatively low degree of injury depletion at the start of the real games. No, the team isn't ignoring toughness, but adjusting to have an overall healthier set of starters to start the season out with. That is in contrast with last season.
Also, when the team adjusts to the weekly gear up to specific team preparations, the work schedule is now arranged to give one additional day of recovery before the backend four days are begun. No, the team isn't getting softer, it is also getting smart.
The old saying in service goes: smarter not harder.
Now, as to my points above...one could have been making up excuses to ignore it or just to insult it, but it did reveal more than an ounce of wisdom that the Army has provided us. And they still are the longest run group in the Country...
But this team is working to where no one quits, and pride is a functional and weekly commodity. As it still grows, one can expect little more...but through the intensities of the past four seasons, it has held ground. But now, has a really dominant offense as well.
