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The Offensive Line Dominates A Salty Practice
By rabblerousr
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...ng-camp-practice-number-eight-full-report-the
...Watching Bisaccia work, I was reminded of what may be the Cowboys' most important offseason moves: the rehiring of the vast majority of their coaching staff, particularly the three coordinators. Bringing these men and head coach Jason Garrett back into the fold in 2015 guarantees that the Cowboys will have the same head coach and three coordinators in consecutive seasons for the first time since the 2003-04 seasons, when Bill Parcells was the head coach.
If we can conceive of training camp as "Football University," then the various coordinators are professors who are responsible for communicating a body of knowledge to their pupils, the players. Like most professors, they like to operate according to familiar syllabi. When a team hires a new coordinator, he brings a new set of priorities and, with them, a new set of lessons for his students. Like a college major, football lessons come in lower-division and upper-division models; when a team hires a new coordinator, they players must start at the 100 level, with basic, global material before they can move on to upper-division work.
Because the Cowboys' front office has retained the same head coach and coordinators for two years running, many of the Cowboys players - and certainly the ones who are most likely to play the most snaps in 2015 - have already absorbed these global lessons. This is not to say that the team will not return to them during camp - Jason Garrett emphasized that the team will start at "square one" - but rather that that the syllabus features familiar material. As a result, the players who were in Oxnard last year can quickly re-familiarize themselves with these global considerations and then concentrate on detailed, upper-division material: hand placement, footwork, exact spacing...
By rabblerousr
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...ng-camp-practice-number-eight-full-report-the
...Watching Bisaccia work, I was reminded of what may be the Cowboys' most important offseason moves: the rehiring of the vast majority of their coaching staff, particularly the three coordinators. Bringing these men and head coach Jason Garrett back into the fold in 2015 guarantees that the Cowboys will have the same head coach and three coordinators in consecutive seasons for the first time since the 2003-04 seasons, when Bill Parcells was the head coach.
If we can conceive of training camp as "Football University," then the various coordinators are professors who are responsible for communicating a body of knowledge to their pupils, the players. Like most professors, they like to operate according to familiar syllabi. When a team hires a new coordinator, he brings a new set of priorities and, with them, a new set of lessons for his students. Like a college major, football lessons come in lower-division and upper-division models; when a team hires a new coordinator, they players must start at the 100 level, with basic, global material before they can move on to upper-division work.
Because the Cowboys' front office has retained the same head coach and coordinators for two years running, many of the Cowboys players - and certainly the ones who are most likely to play the most snaps in 2015 - have already absorbed these global lessons. This is not to say that the team will not return to them during camp - Jason Garrett emphasized that the team will start at "square one" - but rather that that the syllabus features familiar material. As a result, the players who were in Oxnard last year can quickly re-familiarize themselves with these global considerations and then concentrate on detailed, upper-division material: hand placement, footwork, exact spacing...
