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What if you de-emphasize the OC role so that his only job was to devise the offense and game plan. Right now, the OC is spread too thin to do the important job of game planning.
The offense would be managed by an experienced senior coach who would monitor practices, follow player development, and make sure the coaches are teaching the preferred techniques for the team’s system. There would be fewer situations where a player is stuck on the bench when he should be replacing a starter like Gates was.
Probably more important for offense than defense.
Okay, let the beating begin.
More coaches = more teachers, and in education the classic metric is student to teacher ratio, why not here?
It is...
these guys watch film till their eyes bleed, they all do. So they sit in a room for hours upon hours and break down film of what the other team is doing and they all make suggestions on what they think will work and not work or where they think they see an advantage.
its not like the OC is doing it all himself and then unveiling a surprise on Weds at practice
Let's face it, as an assistant coach, you want to establish yourself and make sure your unit or specialty is as good as it can be. How much does your style as an assistant differ from the HC? Now the suggestion is more coaches?....I dunno
I think the OC has been spread thin in prior years too but maybe not on the Giants where the HC has been doing the play calling. I think we all agree that the setup was wrong under McAdoo and Shurmur. This would change the focus so the OC was overseeing game planning but not leader of the offense.
these guys watch film till their eyes bleed, they all do. So they sit in a room for hours upon hours and break down film of what the other team is doing and they all make suggestions on what they think will work and not work or where they think they see an advantage.
its not like the OC is doing it all himself and then unveiling a surprise on Weds at practice
This is more about the OC focusing on one important job, and leaving the jobs of leadership, teaching and coaching up players to others.
There aren't any teams without position coaches. On top of that many teams now have specialized coordinators like passing game coordinator or run game coordinator.
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is involved in the game planning
these guys watch film till their eyes bleed, they all do. So they sit in a room for hours upon hours and break down film of what the other team is doing and they all make suggestions on what they think will work and not work or where they think they see an advantage.
its not like the OC is doing it all himself and then unveiling a surprise on Weds at practice
This is more about the OC focusing on one important job, and leaving the jobs of leadership, teaching and coaching up players to others.
I think thats kind of how a coaching staff already works