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He patrolled the sidelines, fists pumping in the air, high fives flying everywhere. Bucs fans wanted him to calm down, because thats what winners did.
The other one had the same face regardless of the outcome. You couldn’t tell if his team was up by 50 or down by same amount (which has happened a lot more often this year). Fans want to see some life, get excited…thats why team can’t win.
Can you tell which coach I’m talking about in the above situations? Did you guess Raheem Morris, Jon Gruden and to some extent Greg Schiano for the first one? Did you guess Tony Dungy and or Lovie Smith for the last?
There have been tons of stoic coaches in history that have been successful, Tom Landry comes to mind. Energetic coaches like Mike Ditka have their names etched with winning with their style of coaching. Neither one is right or wrong, its just a case of winning or losing.
Had Greg Schiano won games last year, his Schtick of adjusting Air Conditioners to 72 degrees, Toes on the Line, and rushing the V formation all would have been considered open for review to future coaches to establish winning at their programs! Instead, it went the way of Josh Freeman, MRSA, and “Fire Schiano” billboards. It’s all about the W’s and L’s. The results determine the need.
Until the Bucs start winning, fans will be fickle and want the OPPOSITE of what is on the sideline. With a 1-7 team, Bucs fans want a loud in your face coach, even though they just asked for the opposite in 2011 when fans determined that was a bad talent to have when Raheem Morris was losing on the sideline!
To some degree its the same story with “play calling”. All plays are designed to succeed, its the execution of the play, or lack thereof, that usually determines whether or not a play works or not. Sure there are some plays that are just long shots to succeed. 4th and 16 and a toss pitch is usually not a great play call. Unless it works, and its brilliant. 4th and inches and you call a deep post, low chance of success, and probably not a great play call if the game is on the line. Anything else…a run on 3rd and 6, a pass on 3rd and 1, its a play called by someone, and if its executed that can be the difference between a “great play call” or a “horrible play call”. Only in the extreme cases is it really a bad call, otherwise its up to how well it works to determine if it was good or bad.
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