Texans_Chick
Utopian Dreamer
aj. said:I think it was more conflicting philosophy, i.e. Capers/Palmer v. Capers/Pendry than no philosophy. Wade is a Capers-Pendry kind of dozer/grinder. Wand, for example, is more of an agile Palmer kind of tackle -theoretically at least. Dom couldn't navigate the confusion.
It may just be semantics. Conflicting philosophies mean no philosophy--anarchy or mud, I suppose.
It was kinda painful to hear Carr in the interview trying to say nice things but explain what happened. The whole Pendry not completely doing his system and not feeling comfortable with the blended system and then sorta relinquishing the play calling for a couple of halves. It was ugly.
I think the whole Kubiak/Smith deal, and the hires that they have done with that are a reflection of a new determination to have everyone on the same page. I am not sure if it is all going to work, but it looks like they are committed to a philosophy, even if it means they have younger people to make it happen.
BTW, noticed in the McNair interview that he really played up the fact that one of the best things he liked about Smith is his openmindedness, and not just being committed to doing things the Denver way but to find best practices and incorporate it into the job. It was hard listening to that without making the mental jump that this was almost a sideways way of distancing himself from the Casserly traditional Redskins way of doing things.
Don't know if I was reading too much into that, but it was the first thing that came to mind.
I think a lot of times when we have failures in our lives, the next moves we make are often a reaction to that. That whatever our next move is, we just don't want it to be the same as what came before. It doesn't mean the new thing will work better, but we just don't want to repeat the same mistake.
Certainly, getting an offensive minded coach is a reaction to our conservative defensive minded coach who helmed a team that was embarrasing offensively. Hopefully it will work better than Seifert following Capers in Carolina.