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Originally Posted by 30gut
I'm certain there is goal in mind from Scott concerning how/what type of player will be acquired going forward. I'm also sure that another goal is to maximize the available talent. I don't view the 2 as mutually exclusive. You don't need to have a crappy run output to maintain teaching your fundamentals, scheme and plan.
For me? Yes. Absolutely.
Is it easy? Nope.
In fact I think very few coaches, are actually good at it. I think the league is filled with good coaches that can basically only coach their scheme in their terminology and their is nothing wrong with that. Its the elite coaches, imo, that have the ability to adapt and its that ability that allows some organizations and teams to have sustained success.
Right now we're talking in broad undefined strokes here and that usually doesn't work well with football. But from my view you don't have to adjust "an entire offensive structure" to adjust to injuries/changes in personnel. Coaching is about adjustments. From play to play from game to game.
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I think Gruden has gotten a lot better about in game adjustments, but I disagree that when 4-5 scheme critical players go out, you adjust your offense to sub-par talent (IN A TRUE REBUILDING YEAR). I disagree for the simple reason that you want to find out which players can and will learn the scheme you are implementing.
I'm really not talking broad strokes. I am saying that the Skins, this year, with this roster should not have adjusted their scheme to include more use of DY as a blocking fullback, IF their goal is to see how players stepped up to the roles they need to fill going forward. Does it make our team record worse this year, yes, does it also fit with SM's mentality of building our team for the future, yes.
Every fan wants to win every game, but I think this year (and maybe only this year) coaching gets a small pass because of three very real factors:
1) the roster is not very deep, I expect that to be a non-issue next year
2) at 2 or 3 key spots that were not top priority areas (TE/Left side OL/WR) we took multiple season impacting injuries
3) the team fundamentals have been lacking for several years, and upper management hasn't helped till SM seemingly stepped in and said that aint the way it's done.