saintz08

Hmmm, this seems to have a Brooks tint to it ....... :P

Private, it\'s part coaching, but to be honest the football IQ on this team is not real strong. You can coach some of that, but you must bring in people with good intelligence and work skills. The lazy part of scouting and I believe some of that is being done with this team is to pick and sign players with tremendous athletic skills and then try and coach them up. Well, the teams that scout well find the talented athletes, but they also find the work ethic guys and the football smart players. This team has quite a few players with excellent athletic gifts, but they are low on the Football IQ chart. When Randy Mueller was the GM here I spoke to him about that issue and he totally agree that this team was lacking in that area. He told me that the football smarts equation was not real high and that was an area he would have to address more. He got fired a few weeks after that conversation. Until you can really re-up the coaching end and find individuals with a higher football IQ these mental mistakes will continue. The coaches will try to blame it on youth and inexperience and some of that I will buy on defense, but not on the offensive side of the ball with so many veteran players that have been here the past three seasons. Believe me though, Haslett will try and sell that to some of the media members who will buy it. It\'s just an excuse to a much bigger problem.

[Edited on 7/1/2004 by saintz08]

\"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn\'t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed.\" - George S. Patton
On another note, I\'ll take a bite of that crow 08. - Saintfan
Brooks is a moron!! - Halo