JLC: The Cerrato Era Has Begun

Seems way oversimplified to me. Of course, talent on the field makes a huge difference, but we only need to look back at the last half of the ole ball coach's season here to see how a stubborn coach's game plan works in the nfl if he refuses to adjust.

Are you in essence saying that game planning is overated, but motivation of players isn't? You stated early in this post that all coaches game plan. If You follow your logic, you are essentially saying that actually all coaches MUST have good game plans just to keep up w/the competition.I'm saying:

1) the effects of gameplan are overvalued to fit with the assumption that the winning coach had the more intelligent gameplan. That is to say that people always label winning coaches as great gameplanners when in many instances, this is not the case.

I'm saying it's really, really, really difficult to make a bad gameplan week after week. People with that aptitude tend not to pursue the field of coaching.

2) I'm saying that because NFL players range from the ages of 22-40, it's safe to say that motivation is predominantly internal in nature. Players that can self-motivate will be successful whereever they go, and there's not a lot a coach can do for a 26 year old man who can't motivate himself.

As Schneed pointed out, this thread is about Vinny. If you want to discuss different coaching philosophies and/or the importance of coaching, please express your beliefs in a different thread.Fair enough.

He can be judged on inheriting a playoff caliber team a few players away from the SB and see what he does with it. I give him 2 years and that's being generous.

Accountability is a good thing.

based on things in the past....he's going to have to do pretty terrible to get fired...

I think it's a blessing in disguise to have Vinny being held accountable for how this team is going to perform for the next couple of seasons at least. It is in fact his team now. He's pretty much in control of player personell and the coaching staff. While I'm not sure if this coming season will be a true measure of what Vinny will do for this team, I believe we will definitely have a better understanding in the seasons to come. This can either be great for the Redskins or disasterious. Right now, the front office is something everybody loves to hate, so I doubt Vinny will be given much of the benefit of the doubt.

Right off the top of my head I can't think of any. But, and I realize it was college, but there must be a reason Campbell did best playing in a WCO. And I don't believe it's simply because he had Ronnie Brown and Cadillac Williams. And if that is the case, well we have Portis and Betts

college WCO and NFL WCO are completely different. holes close soo much faster that it's really hard to correlate the two in terms of projected success.