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They produce regardless. Gurley and Donald are prime examples of that. Doesn't mean they have been maximized, but they produce because they are really good at playing football.
Misjudged "talent" does not. The list is long for examples of that.
You don't stay a below .500 team and show no improvement in your record for 4 straight years with largely the same people running things if that actual talent is being significantly improved along the way. The talent may change, but I think a lot of people are mistaking that for improvement as if change is improvement by default. The perception of a talent upgrade simply does not match the reality, i.e. the empirical evidence. The 2012 Fisher/Snead Rams finished 7-8-1, scored 18.7 points per game and allowed 21.8 points per game. The 2016 Fisher/Snead Rams finished 7-9, scored 17.5 points per game and allowed 20.6 points per game.
The alleged obvious overall upgrade in talent has netted a result of -1.2 points per game scored and -1.2 points allowed over their tenure to date. They cancel each other out perfectly to post a big fat ZERO improvement in offensive vs. defensive output differential with ostensibly much better talent? No, the data doesn't lie, but people's biases do.
The record alone doesn't tell the whole story though, of course.
Injuries to Bradford two years in a row. Key injuries to the OLine. Big stuff like that matters
and is part of the whole context.
The Foles decision was on Snisher. They have to own that one, but that was a weird
meltdown. Seemed to me like he was doing ok early on and then the Green Bay game
bulgerized him. Ah well.
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