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Tned
10-24-2011, 05:36 PM
Coaches by their very nature are risk avoiders. They like to think they have control over every situation pertaining to their players and their play on the field. They will go out of their way to ensure that every decision made minimizes the risk of failure; practice drills, depth charts, scouting reports, play calling. It keeps them up at nights, well past the customary bedtime of the rest of the sane population.

You can’t coach IT

It’s why they feel they put so much into their jobs that those on the outside could never understand and therefore lack the authority to question any of their moves, on or off the field. You’d think with all the advances in computer technology that a lot of the ambiguous factors to the game had already been crunched out, that perhaps they’d get home at a decent hour and maybe have dinner with the family or tuck the kids into bed. Nope, “Gotta have that control, gotta minimize that risk.”

But how do you game plan for IT? What does IT look like when the quality control coaches plug IT into the computer to get the other team’s tendencies? Who on the scout team is going to play IT’s role and allow your team to get a good look at IT during practice....

Check out Ted's full article. It's a good read: http://www.thefootballeducator.com/is-it-even-on-the-football-player-evaluation-form/

TT15Superman
10-24-2011, 06:17 PM
There's not and you can't. Just like you cannot account for missed FG's, extra points, sacks, fumbles, INTs, etc.

All things being equal, you scheme for the best and hope for the best. You pray that the worst doesn't happen...and you pray that you don't make a boneheaded coaching call.

And you can never account for "heart". Better teams have lost to worst teams. The only difference in the NFL is that most teams are really close...any given Sunday. My weekly Pickem' results tell me that plain as day.