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and to yer point, zn.....I'm not so sure that all the failures of spread QBs since 2000 was NOT the quality of OC coaches.
Only cuz I think much of how the NFL operates is group-think. imo
Look at our military or any big organizations and often they go with what kinda worked in the past...more is more!
I'm just musing here...just speculatin....got no facts...just gut/observation for my opinion(the AmericanWay! lol).
I'm kinda a novice military historian...and it comes down to STRATEGY/game-plan(generals/coaches) and TACTICS/execution(soldiers/players).
Right place, right time with the right people and the right place...makes for successes. But football as in warfare...no plan survives the first shot...and adaptation/thinking outside the box & evolving design, when necessary...is where my bet would go. The generals strategy...matters.
Martz was a huge student of military history(CivilWar especially from what I read) and he often used those concepts in his offense(Art of War/SunTzu stuff, etc) to great effect tho everyone/general/coach has their blindspot.
This is not really a post countering yers, I think...just a supplemental comment on yer thots.
You would have to prove that one to me, Sun. Cause otherwise it makes no difference who you hire as your OC and qb coach cause they will all be the same. Which we know abundantly well is simply not the case.
Plus I would want to know why it was particularly Air Raid qbs who for some statistically unlikely reason all ended up with mediocre groupthink coaches.
As it happens just plain spread qbs make it in the NFL all the time. Bradford did, Roethlisberger did etc. So was it only
Air Raid qbs who ended up with mediocre coaches? From 99 on? In every single instance?
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