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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 501992"><p>While I'm in general agreement with your approach to the question, I'm afraid if he were 40 or 50 today I doubt he'd have ever gotten close to a pro head coaching job for the simple reason he would have been too small to play college football and would not have even gotten off the bench at a lot of high schools. By some reports, he was about 5'8" and played OG at Fordham at about 180 lbs. Not playing in college would be a career path killer.</p><p> </p><p>That consideration aside, I agree that in terms of temperament, intelligence, work ethic, adaptability, character and the ability to "see" into the game...would have made him an outstanding coach in today's game.</p><p> </p><p>The idea that Lombardi's temperament would not have meshed with today's players doesn't hold much water in my mind. Beside the points you noted regarding his skills as a psychologist, I would comment that Parcels and Coughlin, to name two off the top of my head, were/are crusty, demanding disciplinarians who don't suffer fools well. They've had a little success, I think, in the free agent/high pay era.</p><p> </p><p>On the point of adaptability, it is helpful to note that the difference between the game Lombardi played at Fordham in the 1930's and the one he left in 1969 is greater than the difference between the 1969 pro game and the one we see today. If you dropped him down out of heaven today, gave him a rule book, and a thousand hours of tape, he'd have it pretty well figured out. During one of the Lombardi documentaries they've been showing on NFL Network this week, one of his ex-players commented that on his death bed Lombardi was thinking about how to attack the 3-4 defenses coming out of the AFL. Something tells me Lombardi would not be caught off guard by a pistol read-option offense after the requisite amount of study.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 501992"] While I'm in general agreement with your approach to the question, I'm afraid if he were 40 or 50 today I doubt he'd have ever gotten close to a pro head coaching job for the simple reason he would have been too small to play college football and would not have even gotten off the bench at a lot of high schools. By some reports, he was about 5'8" and played OG at Fordham at about 180 lbs. Not playing in college would be a career path killer. That consideration aside, I agree that in terms of temperament, intelligence, work ethic, adaptability, character and the ability to "see" into the game...would have made him an outstanding coach in today's game. The idea that Lombardi's temperament would not have meshed with today's players doesn't hold much water in my mind. Beside the points you noted regarding his skills as a psychologist, I would comment that Parcels and Coughlin, to name two off the top of my head, were/are crusty, demanding disciplinarians who don't suffer fools well. They've had a little success, I think, in the free agent/high pay era. On the point of adaptability, it is helpful to note that the difference between the game Lombardi played at Fordham in the 1930's and the one he left in 1969 is greater than the difference between the 1969 pro game and the one we see today. If you dropped him down out of heaven today, gave him a rule book, and a thousand hours of tape, he'd have it pretty well figured out. During one of the Lombardi documentaries they've been showing on NFL Network this week, one of his ex-players commented that on his death bed Lombardi was thinking about how to attack the 3-4 defenses coming out of the AFL. Something tells me Lombardi would not be caught off guard by a pistol read-option offense after the requisite amount of study. [/QUOTE]
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