Thursday, December 20, 2007

Say What You Will, Herm's Our Man

Everywhere I go there seems to be a new knock on Herm Edwards. "The man won't take chances", then he does take a chance, and it's "the man makes stupid calls". "His offense is too boring" then he let's it fly, and it's "He has no gameplan."
Alright, as it were, I concure w/ many of these knocks on Herm. It would seem that he and his bedfellow Solari have no gameplan. It's as if they are too busy watching Hogan's Heros reruns during the week to bother looking at opposing team's film. Then on game day they're scrambling to make something make sense, which looks a little like this: Run, run, punt...punt, run, drop....groan, groan, groan,....punt, kick, miss.
There is absolutely no philosophy here. And what really gets me is that the man bows to pressure faster than Nancy Palosi's Congress. The moment there's criticism of his system, he calls plays that are way out of character, apparently from some inherent fear of not being liked by the gals and fellas. Well, there is certainly a lot we can find to flaw this coach.
I would like to point out what this man does so great for THIS team RIGHT NOW. He can spot talent. Jarred Page, Kolby Smith, Dwayne Bowe; if there is any method to his maddness it's this: you build winning teams through the draft. We can confirm this just by looking at, what I like to call, the failed Redskin Maniacle, where a team tries to duplicate the New York Yankees by throwing money in the free agency frenzie and comes out like the New York Yankees as total disappointments. I mean the free agent move has turned out to be so disaterous, that their best draft pick winds up dead (no offense, Taylor family). My point is that though Herm may have no game, or game plan, he certainly has a nose for talent and I don't care what coach or system you have, you ain't got talent and you got nothin'.....just ask Nick Saben.

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