Ground Control
11-09-2017, 11:58 PM
Not sure about this one but I wasn't privy to his brilliance at Miami. He's allegedly a rising star in the NFL. With the lineup of experienced coaches underneath him, I only thought he would have to be a good cheerleader, organizer, and ego-checker to be successful but that lineup seems to have little clue on how to right the ship, and I imagine some (McCoy) are much harder to influence than the Broncos let on...
So, maybe he's so far a failure on the ego-checker part, as egos (or maybe ids) are running rampant and there is no answer to McCoy's run of failures. I was really excited about him at first. I chose my own narrative, that McCoy was a good OC, but not so much as HC. I still think he is all that but left to his own, he becomes lost in the maze of his own version of what offense should be in the NFL and completely fails to realize that football is maybe much simpler than his brooding mind allows for. He definitely seems to have little grasp of maximizing players, contrary to the hype.
As for the rest of the coaches, no one seems to have an idea on how to make their 'great practices' a reality on the field, so...head coach, anyone?
All of this is understandable when looking at a rookie head coach, and potentially looking at a guy that showed promise but maybe is a better DC than HC. The foolery comes when listening to him in interviews and watching him on the sidelines. He is just as much the deer caught in the headlights as Siemian is when things go (continuously) wrong, when the camera pans to him during the game. As to interviews: Anyone tired of the word 'special' yet? Is it maybe a go-to expression that denotes a lack of imagination? Regardless, optimism has it's place...but complete a denial of reality?
"It isn't a Trevor problem. It's a unit problem". True but this is a dodge, as was obvious. The unit is lead by the QB. When he is breaking down, so will the unit. I love Siemian, and still think he can be a great backup - and even a solid starter, given his former stoicism and control - but not on this team, this year. The Broncos are a team with championship talent and a elite D. There are expectations...and teams that hope to kill such expectations, that are apparently beyond today's Trevor Siemian. Joseph has spent so much time denying the reality of the QB disaster he took on, it seems pretty obvious he was overly hungry for a head coach opportunity. So, he forgot that a head coach is as only good as his QB...and can be dropped as quickly.
"Osweiler did fine". Part of that is OK but you must have qualifiers, given the Broncos situation and Joseph's deteriorating reputation. "Brock did fine, considering this was his first start since last season" works. "Brock did fine enough, given there was a complete breakdown at all phases of our game and his first interception was DT's fault, while his second was under reasonably desperate circumstance...as were all of his late, desperate choices, because we were very desperate when they were made".
"If you look at the game as a whole, we had some great plays...and had more yards...and it was in reach, despite....". Yada, yada. Game after game. Therein lies the exact verbiage that differentiates a true leader among men from a man that is pretending to be such. True leaders don't deflect. They win because they stop talking about the good and mold that into the heart and soul of a team by showing them how to make the good the norm. They look and speak openly about the bad and show their team how to eliminate them as much as possible, knowing that no team or player is perfect but imperfection can lead to championship also. Think of the vet QB that knows he has faults/ weaknesses and uses that to manipulate the enemy into mistakes. Now think of that trait in a HC.
So far, Joseph seems to be little more than Elway's mouthpiece. I give him the benefit of the doubt, in that he might have thought his situation could have been improved early on, and certainly by the trade deadline (Duane Brown, lost to Seattle, smacks of an Elway failure)...but the mindless denials of reality have maybe gone past acceptable false hope, into the level of insecurity that comes from a guy that has no real answers and is too afraid to open up 'all options', including risking his replacement next year with bold action. Realistically though, it's gone beyond the 'all options' approach. The failure is deep and we need that leader among men. I still hold out hope...just like I still hold out hope that Brock is the man he was in 2015. The one that we couldn't have won the SB without. But even Brock is a victim of his circumstances, while Joseph is the master of his (our team's) destiny.
If that means pushing the envelope and challenging Elway, so be it. Maybe that's what Elway is looking for in a head coach? I can't imagine Elway is unaware of his glaring failures in some areas. Will Joseph man-up and be an guiding hand to Elway's player development and his coaches play calling? Or, will he keep saying 'special', like it is a foreshadowing of his placement on the Special Olympics third string team of (whatever sport) coaches? Because, the athletes, coaches, and heroes that participate in the SO clearly have more heart, talent, and drive than VJ has shown so far.
So, maybe he's so far a failure on the ego-checker part, as egos (or maybe ids) are running rampant and there is no answer to McCoy's run of failures. I was really excited about him at first. I chose my own narrative, that McCoy was a good OC, but not so much as HC. I still think he is all that but left to his own, he becomes lost in the maze of his own version of what offense should be in the NFL and completely fails to realize that football is maybe much simpler than his brooding mind allows for. He definitely seems to have little grasp of maximizing players, contrary to the hype.
As for the rest of the coaches, no one seems to have an idea on how to make their 'great practices' a reality on the field, so...head coach, anyone?
All of this is understandable when looking at a rookie head coach, and potentially looking at a guy that showed promise but maybe is a better DC than HC. The foolery comes when listening to him in interviews and watching him on the sidelines. He is just as much the deer caught in the headlights as Siemian is when things go (continuously) wrong, when the camera pans to him during the game. As to interviews: Anyone tired of the word 'special' yet? Is it maybe a go-to expression that denotes a lack of imagination? Regardless, optimism has it's place...but complete a denial of reality?
"It isn't a Trevor problem. It's a unit problem". True but this is a dodge, as was obvious. The unit is lead by the QB. When he is breaking down, so will the unit. I love Siemian, and still think he can be a great backup - and even a solid starter, given his former stoicism and control - but not on this team, this year. The Broncos are a team with championship talent and a elite D. There are expectations...and teams that hope to kill such expectations, that are apparently beyond today's Trevor Siemian. Joseph has spent so much time denying the reality of the QB disaster he took on, it seems pretty obvious he was overly hungry for a head coach opportunity. So, he forgot that a head coach is as only good as his QB...and can be dropped as quickly.
"Osweiler did fine". Part of that is OK but you must have qualifiers, given the Broncos situation and Joseph's deteriorating reputation. "Brock did fine, considering this was his first start since last season" works. "Brock did fine enough, given there was a complete breakdown at all phases of our game and his first interception was DT's fault, while his second was under reasonably desperate circumstance...as were all of his late, desperate choices, because we were very desperate when they were made".
"If you look at the game as a whole, we had some great plays...and had more yards...and it was in reach, despite....". Yada, yada. Game after game. Therein lies the exact verbiage that differentiates a true leader among men from a man that is pretending to be such. True leaders don't deflect. They win because they stop talking about the good and mold that into the heart and soul of a team by showing them how to make the good the norm. They look and speak openly about the bad and show their team how to eliminate them as much as possible, knowing that no team or player is perfect but imperfection can lead to championship also. Think of the vet QB that knows he has faults/ weaknesses and uses that to manipulate the enemy into mistakes. Now think of that trait in a HC.
So far, Joseph seems to be little more than Elway's mouthpiece. I give him the benefit of the doubt, in that he might have thought his situation could have been improved early on, and certainly by the trade deadline (Duane Brown, lost to Seattle, smacks of an Elway failure)...but the mindless denials of reality have maybe gone past acceptable false hope, into the level of insecurity that comes from a guy that has no real answers and is too afraid to open up 'all options', including risking his replacement next year with bold action. Realistically though, it's gone beyond the 'all options' approach. The failure is deep and we need that leader among men. I still hold out hope...just like I still hold out hope that Brock is the man he was in 2015. The one that we couldn't have won the SB without. But even Brock is a victim of his circumstances, while Joseph is the master of his (our team's) destiny.
If that means pushing the envelope and challenging Elway, so be it. Maybe that's what Elway is looking for in a head coach? I can't imagine Elway is unaware of his glaring failures in some areas. Will Joseph man-up and be an guiding hand to Elway's player development and his coaches play calling? Or, will he keep saying 'special', like it is a foreshadowing of his placement on the Special Olympics third string team of (whatever sport) coaches? Because, the athletes, coaches, and heroes that participate in the SO clearly have more heart, talent, and drive than VJ has shown so far.