generator12
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2010
- Messages
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If you gathered all the players on each NFL roster onto a scale and weighed them - the total weight of each roster, and compared the weights among the rosters, you'd find that they all contain roughly the same amount of meat and bone.
If you searched out the origins of the individual players, you would find that they all came from the same cross-section of cities and towns, colleges and universities.
Each team builds its roster in the same process, a league-wide draft in which they select from this single group of players. Each team takes its turn in an order the reverse of the team's last year's finish in the standings. So they all build from the same talent pool, using a common process. Yet there are perennial winners and chronic losers. New England and Green Bay win year after year; Buffalo, Oakland, Jacksonville, et al lose year after year.
The difference? MANAGEMENT! While Matt Millen was destroying Detroit, Belichick was building New England. Ron Wolf, then Ted Thompson built in Green Bay while Al Davis's brain fermented in Oakland. Same story everywhere. We laud or curse players and coaches, but the teams' play always reflects the relative abilities of management. (Yeah, I know, Bilichick is a coach. The same way Bill Parcells was a "coach". Each controlled personnel more closely than most GM's.)
So all you people in Chicago screaming for Cutler's head, start protesting the McKaskeys. Cutler can't do it alone.
Arizona fans, your frustration with having no quarterback falls at the feet of Rod Graves. You Jets fans - well, no need to even go there. Dallas, wake up! Jerry can buy anything but refuses to leave the football operation to people who know football.
Hiring a competent general manager and supporting him in doing what you hired him to do is the best first step - the only step - that leads to a competitive sports organization.
If you searched out the origins of the individual players, you would find that they all came from the same cross-section of cities and towns, colleges and universities.
Each team builds its roster in the same process, a league-wide draft in which they select from this single group of players. Each team takes its turn in an order the reverse of the team's last year's finish in the standings. So they all build from the same talent pool, using a common process. Yet there are perennial winners and chronic losers. New England and Green Bay win year after year; Buffalo, Oakland, Jacksonville, et al lose year after year.
The difference? MANAGEMENT! While Matt Millen was destroying Detroit, Belichick was building New England. Ron Wolf, then Ted Thompson built in Green Bay while Al Davis's brain fermented in Oakland. Same story everywhere. We laud or curse players and coaches, but the teams' play always reflects the relative abilities of management. (Yeah, I know, Bilichick is a coach. The same way Bill Parcells was a "coach". Each controlled personnel more closely than most GM's.)
So all you people in Chicago screaming for Cutler's head, start protesting the McKaskeys. Cutler can't do it alone.
Arizona fans, your frustration with having no quarterback falls at the feet of Rod Graves. You Jets fans - well, no need to even go there. Dallas, wake up! Jerry can buy anything but refuses to leave the football operation to people who know football.
Hiring a competent general manager and supporting him in doing what you hired him to do is the best first step - the only step - that leads to a competitive sports organization.
