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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 482454" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Good for EDS and good for the Packers. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">This is a good example to use to make a point we have debated in other threads. EDS’ story is an example of a person taking personal responsibility for his life. From the story: </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Among other things, this is an example of the limitation of coaches, from the HC to coordinators to the position coaches. In particular, in addition to their inherent talent, position coaches can’t control the maturity or dedication to their profession of the players made available to them. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">An outsider who has no idea the level of commitment of certain players like Lang and EDS could attribute both their poor performance early in their careers and their later much better performance to Campen and/or other coaches. A coach, a boss, or a parent can cajole, threaten, berate, harangue etc. and ultimately it’s up to the object of that attention to get themselves together. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Of course this is not to say coaching isn’t very important; it is. But IMO this is an example of how fans just don’t have all the information they need to draw definitive opinions on how good a job (or not) an assistant coach is doing. In addition to not knowing the level of commitment of players, we don’t know how players receive the coaching of certain coaches (are they tuning him out?) or the “real” talent level coaches have to work with relative to their peers. It’s great EDS got serious about his life. My guess is EDS would be doing well even if he’d have made his flight to New York and signed with the Jets. IMO the Jets OL coach could have helped or hurt him a little but the big change in his life had nothing to do with coaching. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 482454, member: 4300"] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Good for EDS and good for the Packers. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]This is a good example to use to make a point we have debated in other threads. EDS’ story is an example of a person taking personal responsibility for his life. From the story: [/FONT][FONT=Arial] Among other things, this is an example of the limitation of coaches, from the HC to coordinators to the position coaches. In particular, in addition to their inherent talent, position coaches can’t control the maturity or dedication to their profession of the players made available to them. [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]An outsider who has no idea the level of commitment of certain players like Lang and EDS could attribute both their poor performance early in their careers and their later much better performance to Campen and/or other coaches. A coach, a boss, or a parent can cajole, threaten, berate, harangue etc. and ultimately it’s up to the object of that attention to get themselves together. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Of course this is not to say coaching isn’t very important; it is. But IMO this is an example of how fans just don’t have all the information they need to draw definitive opinions on how good a job (or not) an assistant coach is doing. In addition to not knowing the level of commitment of players, we don’t know how players receive the coaching of certain coaches (are they tuning him out?) or the “real” talent level coaches have to work with relative to their peers. It’s great EDS got serious about his life. My guess is EDS would be doing well even if he’d have made his flight to New York and signed with the Jets. IMO the Jets OL coach could have helped or hurt him a little but the big change in his life had nothing to do with coaching. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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