I'm just falling back on the numerous stories I've heard where veteran players working with young players helped turn the corner for them.
I'm not sure on this, but I think coaches have a limited amount of access to players where player to player is essentially unlimited.
Also, if a coach wasn't a player before, the coach might not be able to pick up on certain nuances that a former/current player does.
But I do agree. It should be the coach. I just think a veteran WR does wonders for the WR group.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
Fair point, while reading your comments I got a flashback to an article about Bears starting OL, RG Kyle Long and RT Bobby Massie.
Basically their general opinion seemed to be, position coaches don't know shit... we're not listening to them, we're listening to this retired Hall of Famer OL whom we work with during the off-season. He's been to the top for the mountain and knows what he's talking about, coaches don't know shit.
I was just taken back than attitude, because what if things have changed from that guy's decade to now? There is a hell lot more zone blocking today, where before the 90s Broncos there was maybe none. And it took over a decade to really catch on.
On the other hand, I've had some very stupid coaches too (of course they were "volunteer" coaches, and not paid coaches, but still, the guy, during tackling drills, stopped the drill, made us watch as he criticize the best tackler on the team, making him re-do the drill, and then later stopped the drill and praised the guy whom literally doesn't give a shit and doesn't know how to do anything, and made us stop anf watch him tackle with absolutely no form)... Basically the volunteer coach wanted us to run at full speed into the tackling dummy, without breaking down or any form, just run right over it, falling on it. Which is great... you know, as long as the tackling target can't move.
But supposedly these NFL players openly thought their many position coaches over the years knew absolutely nothing, compared to the retired Hall of Famer. And I don't know what either of them said or what they disagreed on, so I don't know whom I would consider right.
But there have since been rumors that have come out that suggest Aaron Rodgers thought Mike McCarthy had a fairly low football I.Q. supposedly based on conversation Rodgers has had away from the team facilities. Not saying it's true or false, but that's the rumor.
So I guess it's possible that players could think their coaches are idiots.
And I think the Bears OL was during the time after Lovie Smith, where a number of the Bears and coaching staff seemed to be butting heads. I specifically remember on defense, where the players complained they used to have a complex defense with calls for everything that the offense might do. But now, in the overly simplified defense, the offense can line up, or motion to something unexpected, and they're screwed in the current play call, but have no audible to get out of that bad play, back to their base, and so they're just screwed whenever they get caught in that look and the offense does that trick. Where previously they get audible in or out of everything, to get them the base chances based on what they saw pre-snap.