Re: Said my reply so badly I deleted it...

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JamesJM
I don't agree... and that's the most important thing, right?

I don't think the 'record' says what you think it says.. I think it DOES say teams, great minds, take advantage of it.

If it matters... I think the Ram's are in that category now.. but that's besides the point...

The 'tools", if you will, are available to ALL.

Well one thing at a time.

I have this odd feeling that you might think I was dismissing coaching. Of course not. NO ONE dismisses coaching. The only time the issue of dismissing coaching comes up, is when someone says someone else who isn't doing it, is doing it. But great minds are not enough in themselves.

Yes the record shows what I say about this. I have been over and over on this on numerous occassions with people bringing up possible counter-examples--which invariably did not hold up. I just take it as a given, and a fact, that if you have an overnight (meaning one year) turnaround, there was already enough talent there to do it.

I don't think the 2020 Rams are quite in the "overnight turnaround" category cause 9-7 ain't miserably bad. It's obvious they have enough talent to get back into the playoffs. They're not rebuilding--far from it. Does not mean they have no holes, but they are far from being a rebuild.

The tools are available to all but it works like this---if you turn it around overnight, in one season, you had the talent on hand to do it--and at most had to tweak something or strengthen this or that. Again it goes without saying and can be taken as a complete obvious given that bad or mediocre coaches don't pull that off. But it's not the coach alone. If on the other hand you have to rebuild, and this is regardless of the coach, it takes 2-3 years of acquiring talent.

My position is that all that holds up.


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