Owner, Coach, Player…What’s Up Here?

It depends upon the sphere of application here. An engineer would concentrate upon the qualities of execution and develop methods of dissecting each and every aspect of inclusion.

This would quickly include speed of player, ability for change in direction, strength in short torque situations, explosiveness, starting speed from a zero point vantage, and ability to sustain energy levels and still retain explosive ability.

Each of us fans do our own tabulations to such demonstrators in players. These do affect direct applications on the carpet.

Then you have a coaching advantage. Teams respond to the direction given them from a coaching perspective.

This specific aspect can be bypassed by players and even be successful to a degree, as in football, the whole progression is dependent upon their own actions on the carpet under the lights.

Given their own direction, a group of players, people, or gang on the block will always digress and revert to a chaotic interaction 100 percent of the time. The time necessary to bind individual tendencies are subservient to the settling of personalities.

This defeats team considerations to a large degree. Team success here become rudderless and limited by an opponent being prey to a singular and random strength that this team can use.

When attempting to observe and give credence to aspects of both coaching influences and player talents it all occurs in the context of a game setting.

Even here, it all boils down to whether a team is successfully competitive and if not sustained over a period of time by winning, then it boils down to team successes or failures in a win and loss view.

That not withstanding, the current NFL is all about a yearly accosting of records and the potential to change everything within the time frame of from one to three seasons.

So the objectivity of individual influences of either players or coaching staffs are limited to view beyond scores weekly and overall yearly wins accumulated.

Without areas of concentrated observation and some relationship drawn and tracked, fans are then reduced to administering scores to the responsible members in this picture and grading coaching potential strictly upon team achievements.

This is for better or worse. The clamor by the fan becomes lateral in his pursuits and he demands change when that yearly total doesn’t meet his level of personal demands.

More and more, with the social aggressiveness involved in the expected role of a fan today, this becomes a clamor for team dominance and the asking for head felling intensely by that team’s supporters if failure has to be endured for even a single season.

Coaching has a focused role, that has to be reflected in a mode of interaction for their respective players and now, perceptions by the media and fans as well.

The degree of interactions has been expanded into a constant bombardment by the media and observers as well.

The immediate function of the coaching staff is first to cultivate a team-supportive climate that continually addresses the extremes of dynamics and sacrifice demanded for participation in the NFL.

If the culmination of all combined coaching directives does not accumulate a successfully rewarding level of reference for the player, that player loses focus and personal reward adequate to sustain a focus of technique and aggressive personal receptiveness to sustain his role in NFL games.

A coach thus has to support a player-directed motivation and leadership, yet retain the line of disjointed discipline required to keep it continually motivating, and not lose the respect of the team in the process.

These attributes are reflective in association, but a picture of wins and losses don’t address the particulars of style, schemes, techniques required, and an overriding influence of individual team history and successes.

Certain things can be observed in this progressions of coaches, such as Washington settling in upon a physically demanding set of veterans and stocked both sides of the ball.

To this group were added a crunch-delivering set of running backs and this ball of function was wrapped in a strictly baseline diet coach of Joe Gibbs.

Mike Ditka got a no nonsense team of huge and aggressive players and then set a top-notch running back to control flows of the opponent’s game.

Jimmy Johnson sold his neighbor’s wife, the city’s cash flow, and his own owner down the stream to get a whole group of top notched and top end producers backed by an offensive line completely capable of mauling every defense they approached.

New England’s head coach, Belichick, set up a transitional team that accumulated talent by first acquiring older and thus cheaper veterans that were tied into a system, and then starting to accumulate increasing amounts of draft choices to build a dynamic and replenishing group of inserts as the older parts wore out.

Those all were the fan and media observable view of the actual rewards of function, but not the workings themselves.

The player is dependent upon the amount of work that he receives during the course of a single season. This then is accumulative as long as his body shape remains at the optimum side of function.

As time accumulates in a particular player, technique, and sustainability of that technique is as important as the aspect of top end dynamics of that talent by the player.

This reverts back to the role and function of the coach, who imparts that onto the player.

For a period of time, individual players were allowed to play around with such directions on their own, but increasingly it is necessary to share the work, stress, and toil of individual development and successes to progress a team directed sense of accountability and trust.

Here again, is where the coaching staff starts to be directive as to levels of accumulated successes. The goal levels thus become higher and the ability to reintegrate them in a team setting improves as well.

This isn’t yet a complete systems analysis of what affects the aspect as concentrated as play on carpet.

This is where the owner/GM enters the picture. With the multi-millions and even billions of dollars that enter the cash flow picture, sustainability, bottom line expenses, and maximum organizational safeguards are employed in addition to direct relationships of wins and losses.

The gate returns and outward cash flows inward become the business bottom line of these very organizations.

This is the nature of the beast at the professional levels of a sport, as it all is glued together by a team’s ability to pay for what is put onto the field. Gate returns governs the ownership selection of coaches and thus, team character and play.

Some of a large group of owners are more than content to judge relative successes with the bottom line market value of their teams in their local and adjust expectations accordingly.

Even here, although, not all coaches see themselves limited by cash flow once their team walks onto the field. Some of these very coaches are able to direct all within their own realm and integrate player talents into their own schemes and systems of play.

When one takes a progressive ownership group, and watches where it moves and gives it’s support, a variety of tendencies are at work here also. Uniformity is often the exception in these areas.

Some of the owners of franchises chose a dominant leader and relinquish all functional team controls over to them and sustainability reverts to gate revenues. Then there are figures dominate all player acquisitions and then expect those given the tasks to win with what they are given.

Next, you have sustainability of organizations, that are enhanced with an accumulation of time and interaction among coaching staffs themselves. The longer a group of good coaches are together, the stronger the transition periods of time reflect discipline and quality of play on the field.

In today’s pattern of merry-go-rounds of coaching shifts to opponent teams and a chance to move up…there is a depletion to sustainable coaching staffs. This becomes a further problem for the owners/GM’s of organizations.

Even with good talent, a continual shift and change in top team direction and discipline is diminished with this type of constant change.

A team such as Philadelphia has been riding a combination of a group of long standing coaching staff, not allowing cap to be a limiting feature as to base talent on the team, and using the draft to continually accumulate choices and result in a general rise in team talent as well.

Here, Dallas has accumulated both with a picture of bringing it to the field on the season that is started. At present, resources have all been directed to a stable team now, that in addition has a very broad base of youth from which to again grow and maintain.

Player strengths only have dominance as it plugs back into a team directed strength and ability to attack specific aspects of an opponent. Here again, coaching directs this.

It then becomes necessary, for the coaching staff to in addition to sustainable features and ability to develop and maintain individual talents and strengths, but to meet the demands of a continually more educated and copycat league within the NFL itself.

A game-time generalship is thus needed with input by all parts of that coaching staff to maintain an adaptive element during game time itself.

Here is were accumulated knowledge with an older and in place staff and full knowledge of the metrics of their interactions during ‘the show’ become dominant.

This discernible element can have as much application in a game as ability to maintain optimum potential in both scheme and players.

These elements thus are subjective to owner perspectives and such variables as bottom line wins and losses, which can cause a clamor strictly reflective of change. No, what we have is a flow chart all interrelated…from owner, to coaches, and then to the player.

Jerry Jones, Wade Phillips, and Tony Romo are all part of a functioning franchise as well as NFL team. Each has a role in the function. Jerry Jones has the role of providing the environment of stability and the ability to maximize at each point in the process of selection.

Wade Phillips has to ensure that technique of each player is developed and integrated into a successful scheme of team play that during game conditions is adaptive to changes on that field and maximizes both scheme and player strengths.

The players have to maintain a sense of team directed and successful interaction as well as individual accountability to do all he is tasked with. They are all inter-related come game time.

The failure of any one of those participating groups affects team product. For this group of participants in this year’s Dallas Cowboys, I feel there is a fine level of commitment and determination by all involved. Direction has been established at all three levels of observation…now, we shall see how it all comes to view come GAME DAY!

CCBoy is a CP Staff Writer/Analyst…you can read more of his work at cowboyspride.net

 

Martellus Bennett : You asked, He Answered!

Martellus Bennett recently sat down with our own KK and graciously answered some fan questions. We thank MartyB in advance for his graciousness and dedication to his fans.

Cowboyspride: What NFL player, past or present, would you say is most like you?

MartyB: I would say I’m the Greg Jennings of TEs. I like what he does after he catches the ball.

C: You played basketball in high school and college. How, if at all, has that helped you as a Tight End?

MB: I think it has helped me a lot. My handling the ball skills and footwork has improved so much from guarding the smaller guys.

C: Antonio Gates and Tony Gonzales also played basketball. Do you draw any comparisons to them and/or additional confidence from their NFL success?

MB: Hopefully one day I will be as good as those guys or even better.

C: When you get drafted, do you get to pick your number or is it already picked for you?

MB: They have a few put to the side you can choose from.

C: Do you ever get any flack from being so vocal sometimes and accessible to fans?

MB: LOL! Yea, I do get flack from everybody, even the fans. It’s funny sometimes though.

C: Had you not chosen football, which NBA team would you liked to have been drafted by?

MB: The Lakers. They are like the Cowboys of the NBA. Although I love the Bulls…Hmmm, yeah…scratch that about the Lakers. The Bulls have the best colors, LOL.

C: Since T.O. is no longer with the team, do you see a change in the offense to get you on the field more? Do you believe there will be more 2 TE sets or having you out in a flanker’s position while Witten is on the field?

MB: That’s a good question. I have no idea really, I played flanker in college a lot, so maybe I will get a chance to try it out this year.

C: How is your relationship with Jason Witten? Is he more of a mentor or more of a competitor for playing time?

MB: We are very cool. It’s a growing relationship. He’s both…he will teach you, but you’re not just going to come in and get his spot. He’s an awesome player and works just as hard as anyone out there. But it’s always a competition. The early bird gets the worm so to speak.

C: Can you tell me a little about the show, “Hardknocks”, and if you enjoyed doing it?

MB: I enjoyed it, It was fun. I liked the producer and the people behind it. It was a blast.

C: How did the way you were portrayed in “Hard Knocks” affect you? Did it give you extra incentive to show what kind of player you are?

MB: I didn’t really care. I mean. I know who I am and I gonna do my thing regardless of what it is said about me.

C: What does the opportunity to play for the Cowboys mean to you?

MB: Just a chance to play the game I love everyday for a living is a dream come true.

C: Did you ever think that you would have the chance to play for this team?

MB: LOL! I had no idea who I would play for. I am just glad that I look good in Cowboys Blue. hahahaha

C: What was the first thing you thought when you got drafted in ’08?

MB: I didn’t know what to think until after I talked to Jerry, but it was just a relief to get drafted and I told myself this was just the beginning.

C: Are you and Jason Witten pretty close? And what has he taught you (if anything) while out on the field?

(See question from Larry Bud).

C: Have you got to meet Jessica Simpson yet?

MB: LOL

C: What, if any, pranks did you have pulled on you when you first came to the Cowboys? Or was there anything that you had to do being a rookie, a hazing of sorts?

MB: Naw, not really. Just carry pads and get Gatorades for everyone in the TE room. There were only five people, so it wasnt that bad.

C: Can you tell us a little more about what you like to do in your free time away from football?

MB: I do pretty much everything…bowling, fishing, every video game you could think of writing etc.

C: How’s your musical career?

MB: It is just getting started, I love music.

C: Do you have family here in the Dallas Area?

MB: Naw, not really.

C: What do you think about star athletes that encounter troublesome times off the field or during off season that result in fines or suspensions? Do you think that being it is off the field or on their own time..that it should play a factor in their NFL career? Should they be fined or suspended?

MB: Hmmm. I would say yes and no. The thing is…once you’re part of a franchise, you’re always representing them. Although it is on your own time, it reflects back on the organization. If you can’t play because of something you did at home, then the organization, the team, they are losing out. It’s like you have a helmet on at all times, lmao. It just doesn’t protect you in a car accident or from making mistakes ’cause it’s invisible.

C: What is it like to be a role model for today’s youth?

MB: It’s a joy to have people looking up to you and having the ability to help change others lives.

C: Is there a defining moment in your career, that you can look back on and say or feel that is the reason that you chose football over the other sports?

MB: I can’t say one specific thing. I think every moment out on the field is a defining moment.

C: Do you have any pre-game rituals…favorite shirt, favorite meal…lucky rabbit’s foot?

MB: Nooooooooo, LOL! I like to watch Monk. I guess that counts, right? LOL

 

How to Speed up the NFL Draft Process

Well, today (Saturday) the long-awaited event begins…and so does the agony of waiting and waiting for the Cowboys to “get on the clock.”

Does this bug you as much as it does me? I think a few rules changes are in order concerning the draft. How about these, for instance?

1. When a team that is “on the clock” trades away its pick, on its next pick, that team is penalized the same number of minutes that it used before the trade.

2. Teams that “trade up” into the current selection have only 30 seconds to make their selection. After all, they traded up to get a particular player, right? Let’s hear their pick!

3. When any team is “on the clock,” television coverage MUST BE limited to coverage of their draft “war room.” Let us SEE what it is that is delaying their selection!

4. Teams that DO NOT USE their full allotted time to make a selection automatically get one-fourth of the remaining time on the clock ADDED to their next selection time. That ought to speed up the process.

5. Finally (and with full prejudice), any team NOT having a star on their helmet will receive two minutes less clock time than the ones who do have that star on their helmet.

Anybody got any other ideas as to how to speed up the draft process?

(Southernstar is a CP contributor, writer. To read more of his posts, stop by cowboyspride.net).

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