...in a professional setting? There seems to be some thought that the players should just do the right thing because they are professionals. In my experience, that doesn't hold true for humans at any level of employment, and from what I can see of the NFL, even less so when your employees are overwhelmingly young, well-off, and at least mildly spoiled most of their young lives.
It also appears that some think if McAdoo was just tougher on the the players, they'd all play better, but I don't see many examples of objectively hard-ass coaches having successful track records in the modern day NFL. As someone mentioned, the main thrust of a head coach's job is to prepare and motivate his players. There may be some players who don't need a coach to do that for them, those players are rare indeed.
This is my biggest concern about McAdoo. He hasn't evidenced any of the traits that would indicate that he knows how to motivate a group of young men. While we don't know specifically how he relates to the players in the locker room, we have seen him criticizing the teams's quarterback in public. We've seen him choose not to go to a player on his team who suffered a terrible injury and opt for looking at the play chart instead. And now we have seen him fail to address his team on a timely fashion about the suspension of DRC, letting them instead talk to the press about it before he has laid out his case to them.
These are all very bad things from a management standpoint.
Coughlin earned my support because he was clear in the fact that he was invested in his players, that he wanted to see them succeed at football as well as in life. Parcells too knew that to motivate his players, his players had to know that he was involved with them as human beings. That was reflected in his quote after the Super Bowl -- “For the rest of your life, nobody can ever tell you that you couldn't do it. 'Cause you did it.” Parcells and Coughlin and Belichick for that mater are seen as tough coaches, but they were good at building cohesive units from disparate elements, and I don't believe McAdoo can do that yet. I also think his insistence on calling the offense is a sign of that issue. When you get promoted to a new job in an organization, the worst thing you can do is try continue to do your old job. It takes away from your new position, and implies that you don't trust the people who work under you. Its comfortable, though. Probably more comfortable to call plays than to really be the head coach.
and just put him on notice for his behavior because he is one of the most talented defensive players we have. This team is short on talent so sitting one of best players is just cutting our own throat, there has to be a better way of making the point with DRC than punishing the whole team and the fan base......
It also appears that some think if McAdoo was just tougher on the the players, they'd all play better, but I don't see many examples of objectively hard-ass coaches having successful track records in the modern day NFL. As someone mentioned, the main thrust of a head coach's job is to prepare and motivate his players. There may be some players who don't need a coach to do that for them, those players are rare indeed.
This is my biggest concern about McAdoo. He hasn't evidenced any of the traits that would indicate that he knows how to motivate a group of young men. While we don't know specifically how he relates to the players in the locker room, we have seen him criticizing the teams's quarterback in public. We've seen him choose not to go to a player on his team who suffered a terrible injury and opt for looking at the play chart instead. And now we have seen him fail to address his team on a timely fashion about the suspension of DRC, letting them instead talk to the press about it before he has laid out his case to them.
These are all very bad things from a management standpoint.
Coughlin earned my support because he was clear in the fact that he was invested in his players, that he wanted to see them succeed at football as well as in life. Parcells too knew that to motivate his players, his players had to know that he was involved with them as human beings. That was reflected in his quote after the Super Bowl -- “For the rest of your life, nobody can ever tell you that you couldn't do it. 'Cause you did it.” Parcells and Coughlin and Belichick for that mater are seen as tough coaches, but they were good at building cohesive units from disparate elements, and I don't believe McAdoo can do that yet. I also think his insistence on calling the offense is a sign of that issue. When you get promoted to a new job in an organization, the worst thing you can do is try continue to do your old job. It takes away from your new position, and implies that you don't trust the people who work under you. Its comfortable, though. Probably more comfortable to call plays than to really be the head coach.
Great post!