Dean Marlowe is back

[PoundingDog]

... as a coach.

 

Good interview by Cover 1 to gain some insight of what he sees the "new" players from a Bills coach's viewpoint. Interesting the most impressive young player in his eyes is IGB, saying the guy is already like a pro (I guess it's no joke for someone comes from a national champ program like Ohio State), picking up schemes, answering questions. The Bills just might wind up with 3 quality starting CBs by the end of the season. And I'd imagine he gets non trivial playing time during the season as well, based on match-ups.

 

I also like his take on Skyler Bell - "reminds him of a young Digg"; many here have been saying the same in terms of cutting and stopping on a dime. His statement of what makes Justin Jefferson so great is "he makes every route looks like the same" is spot on. 

 

 

 

 

[Beck Water]

You're an evil man @PoundingDog you sick bastard.

I read your title and said "Dean Marlowe?  What the F***!?  What are they thinking?"

.....as a coach

Oh, well, that's OK then

 

Often the players who were not the most physically gifted make the best coaches because they had to use their football smarts and their in-depth understanding make up for their lack of "freakazoid" gifts

[Sierra Foothills]

What's interesting is that coaches traditionally haven't been considered part of a coaching tree if they haven't coached under that coach.

 

For instance, Mike Vrabel is not considered to be from the Belichick Coaching Tree because though he played under Belichick, he never coached under him.

 

That said, one would imagine that Sean McDermott has had a profound effect on Dean Marlowe's approach to football, having played under McDermott in Carolina and then in Buffalo.

 

[wppete]

I agree with Marlowe. Bell does look like Diggs running routes. 

[Senth]

All for it!

[BobbyC81]

1 hour ago, Beck Water said:

You're an evil man @PoundingDog you sick bastard.

I read your title and said "Dean Marlowe?  What the F***!?  What are they thinking?"

.....as a coach

Oh, well, that's OK then

 

Often the players who were not the most physically gifted make the best coaches because they had to use their football smarts and their in-depth understanding make up for their lack of "freakazoid" gifts

Yep, in all of team sports.  GS Warriors coach Steve Kerr was a great three point shooter but mainly a bench player.  He likes cerebral players on his team.   Unfortunately, with Curry and others aging, when they face a young athletic team, they usually get smoked.

 

Catchers tend to be the least athletic baseball players but because of all they have to handle, are usually the smartest and make some of the best managers.

[PoundingDog]

11 hours ago, Beck Water said:

Often the players who were not the most physically gifted make the best coaches because they had to use their football smarts and their in-depth understanding make up for their lack of "freakazoid" gifts

Very true.

 

I have a kid who was into an individual Olympic sport growing up competitively. We did get to a stage where we need to travel to different places to get different high level coaching, while having the primary coach a former Olympic Champ. What we found out is the primary coach, compared to the others who were top 10 competitors during their athletic days but never made to the top podium, was not that great of a coach. The reason is exactly what you describe. Those without top natural physical ability but extreme dedicated drive to dig into every nuances of techniques and training methods to allow them compete at the highest level usually make the best coaches later in life. They have better understanding of techniques and how to perfect the techniques and also have experience in what it is like to compete at the highest level. Yet there is always someone who has the same drive but born with supreme natural physical ability to get onto the top podium. Often times that natural physical ability makes the seemingly difficult technique comes to you easily and you can't really explain it. That's what happens to our primary coach. "You put arm here, leg there, and it works." The other top coach will tell you more WHY you put your arm here or leg there, sometimes even alternatives method based on your specific traits. 

 

As a side note, the end to my kid's serious competitive career actually happened in one of the competition in NYC where we achieved the best result ever. Afterwards, our primary coach mentioned to us that there is some "shots" that can be arranged for my kid that will boost the performance to a higher level, with detailed explanation of benefits, health risk and costs. That's when we (parents) stepped and said no, as well as the realization what it means to propel your kid to the top. 

[BigAl2526]

13 hours ago, Beck Water said:

You're an evil man @PoundingDog you sick bastard.

I read your title and said "Dean Marlowe?  What the F***!?  What are they thinking?"

.....as a coach

Oh, well, that's OK then

 

Often the players who were not the most physically gifted make the best coaches because they had to use their football smarts and their in-depth understanding make up for their lack of "freakazoid" gifts

Actually, Jim Leonhard is a quintessential example of player who was not the most physically gifted and became a coach.

[Walking Tall]

I was all ready to say I’d rather have Deane Wormer.

Edited Thursday at 03:27 PM by Walking Tall

[17islongenough]

When did he become a coach here?  This was never announced and he was coaching OK State last year.  

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Trace McSorley and Darryton Evans were also coaching guys up.