Would we be a Dominate D if...

[Stautner]

We have talent ...... and if they are used in the correct scheme we can be great.

Football is a very simple game.

If it's that simple then why all the fuss about using the proper scheme ....... ?

 

[YosemiteSam]

Football is a very simple game.

It's real simple see;

 

[BouncingCheese]

No way we have the dough to get Chris Mcallister.

Todd Heap, Chris Mcallister AND Terrell Suggs are FA's if I remember right.

Mcalister is already 30 and he is going to command ALOT of money in free agency since the Ravens are and have been cap-strung for the past few years with all the talent on defense and that Suggs and Heap are more valuable at this point.

Mcalister has been one of my favorite players but we have no chance at getting him.

Roy doesn't have the side to side movement to be a MLB IMHO.

 

[zrinkill]

If it's that simple then why all the fuss about using the proper scheme ....... ?

If you have to ask that question ...... there is no use trying to explain it to you.

 

[Stautner]

If you have to ask that question ...... there is no use trying to explain it to you.

I think you are the one that missed the point.

The point was that it's contradictory to on the one hand talk about how simple the game is then on the other claim that the scheme makes the difference.

Simple is lining everyone up in basic formations and going head to head.

Complex is doing everything possible to method to confuse and deceive the opposition with multiple formations and changes of personnel and motion and trick plays and doing the unexpected .......... whih is a function of the "scheme".

The truth is somewhere in between, and is something that I have frequently argued about. Players are the foundation - talent is the base for success. No scheme can make up for a lack of talent - it can help cover it to a degree - but it can't overcome it. Nevertheless, football is a changing game with new schemes being created all the time and creative minds being employed to implement their ideas. It's not a plain vanilla game anymore, and teams have to be imaginative to compete.