Maybe we've touched on this and I missed. I know I'm the new guy lol. But we still have Zach and JT in our own backyard. They've visited the team like a thousand times. Even read that JT is going to mentor Harris (as I referenced in another post I hope he spends copious amounts of time on just teaching him how to harass Captain Hair Plug Cry Baby Brady).
I read something that Zach promised his wife he'd not get into coaching. But she has to by now be ready to kick him out of the house to find something to do. Our LB corp last year in short needed some improvement. Gase likes to have the retired players involved. Why not bring Zach in to be a LB Czar and help our LB corp? Why not do the same with JT? I'm sure they would love to be involved and help the team that they love so much. Dan's working with T-Hill and that seems to have been helping him along.
Just a thought. Great teams find new ways to help their players make the most of their abilities. I'd love it. They'd love it. Our team would be better. What's the problem? You have 13 pro bowl selections between the two of them for god's sake.
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I was on XM Radio Channel 88 last year when JT was with Big Papa on Wednesday's. I actually asked him to coach the defensive line. He said then, he loved working a couple days a week for a few hours a day.
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Just saying if the thought is to uncover every stone to make us the best team we can be, we need to do stuff like this.Puka-head and dirtylandry like this. -
As much as we love Gase, I am not sure how much he wants to be "Old school." I'm sure he would accommodate Shula and Marino and knows the importance of the 72 team, but he is trying to instill his own culture.
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I'm actually surprised neither of them got into coaching. Especially Zach. Given his biggest strength was his instincts, largely based on film study and preparation, I figured he would have been a good candidate to get in the coaching ranks and help guys prepare properly, and help teach them technique based on what they see/read on field and through film study, and seemed to be a natural leader.
JT I always thought would be more destined for media. He had a brief stint on ESPN IIRC, and on Sirius satellite radio last year, and I thik he was working some form of media for college football too if I'm not mistaken. He came across to me as a good fit for a media type role based on what I saw/heard of him. I'd think he'd have made a good coach too, another heady player, that had to play his position a bit differently than others because he wasn't of the typical player mold for his position. He learned to dominate through study, and great technique, etc, etc and he was a leader as well.
Maybe they just don't want to take on the full time responsibilities. If I'm not mistaken, both have young families too right? Maybe they just want to wait a bit until their kids are a bit older. Maybe JT figures he'd just dabble part time in media and help out some younger players here and there until he can take on more responsibility? It is nice to see Gase welcoming these guys in from time to time to help out though, even if he did bring in a guy like Welker for a bit last year. Always good to have guys who excelled at their position come in and provide some tips to players that maybe their position coaches can't. -
Zach is my favorite player of all time, full stop.
That, however, doesn't mean he'd be a good coach or be good at gauging ability. That goes for any and all great players. Just because a player was good or great doesn't mean they'd be good at other football jobs.The_Dark_Knight and Puka-head like this. -
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The thing is that great players don't usually equate to good coaches because they usually have something special that sets them apart, something that can't be taught.
It's usually the guys that had nothing special that make the better coaches because they can relate to the less than special players because they know how hard it is to just get a spot on a team.
The vast majority of special players have no idea what that's like, Zach was made the starter 2 weeks into training camp, and we released Jack Del Rio whom JJ just signed to be the veteran leader of the young team he was going to build.
Zach however, was so good the JJ canned that idea and the rest is history.
JT, Cam etc can't teach players to be physical freaks of nature, lol, they were born like that, Zach I think has some form of OCD or something because he studied like it was an obsession, the guy is a legendary film watcher, how is that even a thing, lol, but you can't teach obsession, that is in his mental make up, he was born like that.
These type players often times have unrealistic expectations from the players they are trying to coach, because they can't relate, they don't know what it's like to NOT be special.
Zach's wife knows she loses a husband if he starts coaching, they may stay married, but Zach will never be there, even if he is there, she knows all to well his obsessive behavior.
With a guy like JT, his techniques work for him because he's a freak, so they won't work as well if you aren't the same kind of freak, and since JT doesn't know what it's like not to be a freak, how can he relate.
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we forget coaching is a grind. It is not meant for players that were elite, even though it makes sense. I'm sure those guys have a hard time waking up and putting on their pants
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Puka-head My2nd Fav team:___vs Jets Club Member
Tony Dungy, Jack Del Rio, Some guy named Shula (although he wasn't any good) Mike Ditka.
I'm thinking both of these guys just don't want to, it's not an easy job. But if the team was smart they would stroke them, offer consultant positions, bring them in to mentor the young uns -
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Nah. But keep bringing us suggestions. We encourage them here.
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Zach and JT were average players who benefited from the genius coaching of Dave Wannestedt.
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As for the Wildcat, I truly believe the Wildcat was more of a gimmick, (since Sparano and OC Dan Henning couldn't come up with an offense that could compete against the rest of the AFC East, and the NFL in general) than it being a crutch to compensate for Pennington's lack of arm strength. We had two stud running backs in Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown and instead of developing an offense that showcased their talents, we created a gimmick which is stunning at first, but soon shut down.
I wonder...imagine if we had Adam Gase then (yea, I know he was a kid....I'm talking the fantasy what ifs)...with the the accuracy of Pennington and the stud stable of Williams and Brown? Geesh, forget about it!!! -
Surely we can agree 100% on that! :up:Fin D likes this.
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