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Erases evident failures on his watch?
My friend, I won't get into a long back and forth. But I will say this once.
Saying an experienced coach with a good track record should be trusted to be on top of things is a theory. A general principle. Not an assessment of evident performance. If you're fine with that theory, then cool.
I am not fine with blind trust. When a coach and staff trot out a lame excuse for an OL, I do not just say, well, he must know what he is doing. I know lousy performance when I see it, and Kromer's history doesn't absolve it.
And I am not fine with the risks. I am so stoked by every other aspect of the team. We can be really, really good this year … unless our OL breaks down. And then there is the injury factor. Running a guy like Demby out there puts Goff's career into serious jeopardy. I am not OK with that.
All right, I'll stop. Every fan works out how to deal with the game's vicissitudes. Go Rams.
Maybe you judge him very negatively because you are looking for an OL who can compete physically when Kromer may be looking for the guy who excels in moving given his ZB scheme. You acknowledge that he has excellent feet.
And you acknowledge that McVay and Kromer are experts in getting the D to move laterally. So it's possible that the physical weaknesses that you're seeing are completely valid but are far down the list of things that are important to Kromer. Is this possible?
If so, then this is where trust the coach comes in. I'm also not a blind trust the coaches person either but I also know it doesn't make sense to force my criteria of what I like to see on them.
As for the one performance, VB's article was just a puff piece and the coaches talk could be exactly that - coach speak. I don't know if they feel his performance was good or stabilized the other day but it does them absolutely no good to publicly say they have a problem with him. Of course they are going to build him up. And maybe they like what he can bring long term.
