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<blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 1031844" data-attributes="member: 12283"><p>Maybe there are things that DeJean CAN do that he just wasn't really asked to do as much and they see the fit for him in the defense and I don't. That's entirely possible. He is a good prospect.</p><p></p><p>However, I struggle sometimes when people talk about coordinators just needing to cater their scheme to players. I understand there's a degree of truth to that, but it's a team sport and you can only adapt so much because you're working with a variety of skill sets. </p><p></p><p>Say they added DeJean and say, for this hypothetical, that my read on him is correct and, in order to thrive he needs to play off and he needs to play almost exclusively zone. </p><p></p><p>Well, they also have Jaire Alexander on the team. He has been frustrated and fans have been frustrated that he was asked by Barry to play so much off coverage and so little man. His skillset would lend itself to more press and more man. </p><p></p><p>So if you put these two players on the same team and just say "Hafley needs to have the wherewithal to make the best use of them," you're putting him in an impossible position. You can't put two players in an ideal position to succeed if their skillsets are entirely different. </p><p></p><p>It's like if you gave a coach a center who stinks in gap scheme runs and thrives in outside zone, but also a guard who can't move well enough to block the outside zone at all, but is really good in gap scheme, and then told the coaches "idealize both these players." How do you that? </p><p></p><p>For that reason, while I totally agree that coordinators/coaches do need to try as best they can to tailor scheme to talent, I think it is equally as critical to draft/sign players that help tailor talent to scheme. And I would argue that the reality of that need is often glossed by assuming coaches can do the impossible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dantés, post: 1031844, member: 12283"] Maybe there are things that DeJean CAN do that he just wasn't really asked to do as much and they see the fit for him in the defense and I don't. That's entirely possible. He is a good prospect. However, I struggle sometimes when people talk about coordinators just needing to cater their scheme to players. I understand there's a degree of truth to that, but it's a team sport and you can only adapt so much because you're working with a variety of skill sets. Say they added DeJean and say, for this hypothetical, that my read on him is correct and, in order to thrive he needs to play off and he needs to play almost exclusively zone. Well, they also have Jaire Alexander on the team. He has been frustrated and fans have been frustrated that he was asked by Barry to play so much off coverage and so little man. His skillset would lend itself to more press and more man. So if you put these two players on the same team and just say "Hafley needs to have the wherewithal to make the best use of them," you're putting him in an impossible position. You can't put two players in an ideal position to succeed if their skillsets are entirely different. It's like if you gave a coach a center who stinks in gap scheme runs and thrives in outside zone, but also a guard who can't move well enough to block the outside zone at all, but is really good in gap scheme, and then told the coaches "idealize both these players." How do you that? For that reason, while I totally agree that coordinators/coaches do need to try as best they can to tailor scheme to talent, I think it is equally as critical to draft/sign players that help tailor talent to scheme. And I would argue that the reality of that need is often glossed by assuming coaches can do the impossible. [/QUOTE]
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