That has to be earned....if they aren't, that HC is not very good. A huge part of being a coach is the psychology side of team building. They don't buy in or have your back, they're all just collecting a paycheck. Coach and players...
You're correct that'll happen overtime but the fact that he's been in this room already for a while as an OC I think the players do have a lot of confidence and respect for the guy it's not fake..
That leads me to my original thought,
you're right, they have to earn it ,and that is why the players and the coaches that spend more time together would be the positional coaches, the coordinators they usually get a better bond and usually those coaches are the one to imprint those players, the players take on their personalities, if that makes any sense..
I mean they're with them all the time at practice in the weight room in a training room the head coach is not around the players as much as the other coaches...
Think about this when Dan Quinn was here, did the defense reflect Mike McCarthy, they didn't look like Moore, no the defense looked and reflected Dan Quinn's attitude, and I'm sure some of it came from the db room with A highly respected Al Harris.
So given that fact and I believe in this could just be me being positive but look at the accumulation of young aggressive new assistant coaches these are the coaches I think are going to have the bigger impact right away.. Gonna have these offense and defensive line coaches and the receivers coaches and all those guys the running back coats are gonna be in their faces all the time and instill their personalities on these players on what they want and what they expect.
But I'm not too worried about that I just want these players to hold themselves accountable do their job to the best of their ability make the right choices off the field and come out and play every game a 100% no matter what and then everything else will work itself out..
Can't worried about it everybody else's job and who's doing what who's not doing what you just need to have players who want to go out and be the best they possibly can be every game....