That’s true on game days here too but then after a couple of hours they go right back to the building and go with the team to the hotel and they have a team dinner and then meetings til like 9 or 10.
Colts fire Frank Reich
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Taylor was injured for 2 weeks, and owner Jim Irsay forced Matt Ryan to the bench, apparently to prevent from having to pay him more in 2023 due to contract injury bonus clauses. Ryan is currently guaranteed $12M of his 2023 contract. If he reports in March and cannot pass a physical due to injury, another $17M becomes guaranteed ($7M in injury payout, $10M in roster bonus, as he could not be traded while injured). He's been dealing with a significant shoulder injury that he was playing through, but to do Saturday a solid, Irsay allowed him to reactivate Ryan.
I'm not presuming Reich is some all-world coach, but his owner and GM dealt him a bad hand, he lost, and got fired. If Rham and both Mac and Zappe had been injured for the Jets game, forcing BB to start Gilbert Grape, they would have been clobbered. Does that make BB a terrible coach/GM who should be fired?
Yeah I mean that's pretty normal stuff. All I'm trying to say is that there are more days now when you don't have to stay those long hours. More understanding of coaches/staff with young kids, etc.
Wouldn't the tremendous changes that have occurred in information technology over the past several decades play a role in this, allowing coaches to communicate and do more work remotely?
FWIW Belichick’s son (one of them) went to high school with my cousin. His son played football. And Belichick was regularly watching practices in person. This would have been a 2 hour drive each way from Foxboro.
On the same trip he would then head up 91 to see his daughter coach at UMass.
Not saying BB doesn’t work his face off. He certainly does. But even he would carve out time during the season for other things.
Imagine being the HS coach of one of BB's sons? It's hard enough for me coaching HS volleyball when there's a parent who actually played in the stands - they are the ones who may have legit criticism of you. Imagine seeing BB in the stands watching you coach his kid?
yeah, and a football coach to boot. That’s a hilarious skit in the making: a coach of one of his kids who keeps looking over his shoulder at the hoodie scowling, and the coach finally snaps…while BB just stares blankly.
Yes, that's part of it. A lot of stuff now since the pandemic people have realized you can do stuff on Zoom versus having to come into the office.
I have coached the son of a former NFL player, the sons of a handful of high D1 players and the son of a college coach, and I can honestly tell you that in all instances, the parents and kids were a joy to have on the team. After the first 15 minutes of the first practice, no one even notices. I would make a point of soliciting their feedback on a few things as the season would progress, and in most every instance they would either give excellent feedback, from which I learned a lot, or they would say something kind and leave the decision to me.
All parents want their kids to play in a safe, positive environment and our program provides that. The tactics and the other stuff they really don't care about. I had one suboptimal situation where a former high D1 parent wanted me to keep playing his kid in a 66-0 rout and I told him that I didn't see how that could be good for his son in any way, that he would learn far more in our practices than that particular game situation. The dad said "if he comes to practice, he should get to play" (his son had already scored 4 touchdowns). Ironically, his son was very into coaching up the guys who were about to go in who didn't see a lot of playing time and was a huge cheering section for them. Other than that, it has honestly been a net positive.
this is a wonderful tale. Should be on tv instead. I love this stuff.
I live in hockey country, and go to a fair amount of games [Im writing a book], and most of the parents and fans are kind. It’s women’s hockey…:so maybe that doesn’t count for some. But I had years ago become rather tendentious. Cigarettes as weapons.::
There are plenty of sub-par parents in youth sports. This last weekend one of the teams I coach was knocked out of the playoffs (expectedly) by a good, tough team and we had three instances of parents screaming at their kids, each of which was as hideous as the last. I usually end the final game postgame speech by going player by player and saying a quick few sentences on how they exceeded my expectations in some way, but I was so enraged that I couldn't even think straight, so I told all the kids to make sure that they came to equipment return so that I could give each of them individual feedback.
So, you know.....life isn't perfect.
Yeah, point taken. Which is why I hope my book on womens ice hockey will show the full spectrum, if landing on the good.
I think the benefit of "having a parent who played" is that most all of them understand the concept that no young man needs reminding that he just missed a tackle or a block. Particularly when that reminder is delivered as a desultory scream across the field. "John!!! You need to block your man!!!!!!" and "Bobby!!!! You need to make that tackle!!!!!" sound vaguely kind of supportive maybe, but they just add insult to wounded pride in the moment.
They also don’t feel the ‘missed out on their dreams’ , ‘if only my parents pushed me harder’, or whatever other insecurities permeate them that likely contribute to yelling at kids.