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I would prefer a more even-keeled approach where neither "excited" or not is an issue.
Vermeil didn't talk this way about the GSOT even after it was clear who and what they were with Warner and Faulk.
Before they knew, after Green went down, he said we will rally around Warner and play good football. His mood was not the point.
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IDK, I though Vermeil's mood was the point, he was in tears, Vermeil wore his emotion on his sleeve. I don't mind an excitable Head Coach, always felt that I would be like Landry, Bud Grant & Chuck Knox never showing emotion, but I ended up being more like Mike Ditka.
He was in tears out of feeling for Trent Green. He did not say I am bummed, or any of that--which is just the reverse of being "excited"--he spoke to the real issue: we will rally around Warner and play good football. Emphasis was on being steadfast and consistent and he CONVEYED that. In spite of the tears which were beside the point.
I said nothing about "never showing emotion." That has nothing to do with what I am saying.
Name the last good coach you know who got all bubbly about being "excited" for a season in this giddy way while virtually admitting he was NOT in that kind of mood the previous season. The bloody moods are unimportant.
Showing emotion during a game or in response to a game? Vermeil did THAT too. But he did not bubble away like a school girl about how "excited" he was even when everyone in the universe including Vermeil himself knew exactly what they had in the 99 Rams. That's kid's stuff IMO. What's
real is being steadfast, steady, consistent, dialed-in, prepared, etc. Vermeil KNEW they WOULD "play good football." He coached them to be that way.
Which. Again. Has absolutely nothing to do with whether a coach shows emotion during a game or after a game or any of that.
The issue isn't "showing emotion," it's the emotions you show, and what they mean. And this is not yet a team that has learned to be steadfast and consistent game in and game out--I mean after all, they flat out failed to show up in a couple of games last year. So up and down moods to me are things you conquer, not things you display as if they were the point. None of this should ever depend on the "excitement level" of the head coach.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2021 11:07AM by zn.
