Should we get rid of most of the coaches?

[Griff]

see what happens when school is out

lol not bad old man, not bad.

[indybillsfan]

Well, some of us have to work for a living. Why don't you trolls get out of your Mom's basement instead of spending your whole day defending Fitz anytime someone says something somewhat negative about him.

As the OP here, let me invite you and others here to address the actual idea of whether coaches are useful in professional sports, instead of hijacking things with your little arguments. If you guys want to just insult each other take it somewhere else or start your own thread.

[Griff]

As the OP here, let me invite you and others here to address the actual idea of whether coaches are useful in professional sports, instead of hijacking things with your little arguments. If you guys want to just insult each other take it somewhere else or start your own thread.

He doesn't have an actual argument. You can always learn more about your profession. I'm sure even Peyton and Brees learn new things from their coaches.

[galept]

Funny man.

This is a coaches' league. At least at the strategy and game planning level.

Are all the position coaches necessary? For sure. It's an organizational nightmare to get 60-70 players all doing exactly, exactly what you want, play after play, week after week.

This is a coaches' league, indeed.

Except when people say it's an owners' league.

Or when they say it's a quarterbacks' league.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

I have been following the threads about Fitz and Lee working on changing his mechanics, and the negativity of some suggesting that Fitz is too old and would be too set in his ways to change at this point in his career.

That causes me to pose the question: are coaches needed for the Bills? Or, for that matter I guess, any professional sports team? Let's say our O line coach sees one of our linemen set up too high during pass protection. Should he try to teach the guy to stay lower, or give up because the guy has played football too long to make a change? Do not baseball teams have hitting coaches to help guys when they get into slumps. Do not hockey teams have goalie coaches? Guys that help NBA players with their shot when they slump? Heck, Tiger Woods has had different coaches and he's the best golfer to ever play the game.

We'll see whether the changes Lee is incorporating into Fitz' mechanics help his accuracy. Time will tell. It does seem silly to me though to suggest that coaching can't or won't help. Otherwise why have coaches to begin with?

good post indy.

[Alsomee]

I have been following the threads about Fitz and Lee working on changing his mechanics, and the negativity of some suggesting that Fitz is too old and would be too set in his ways to change at this point in his career.

This idea that he can't change his mechanics is nonsense. He can if he wants to. Throwing is throwing, and MLB pitchers ten years older than Fitz have reworked their mechanics. Every guy coming back from Tommy John surgery has to relearn his mechanics after the surgery. The "old dog"- "new tricks" maxim doesn't hold for things that are more skill than athleticism like throwing. Ditto for a golf swing, tennis swing, hitting a baseball... Skills that are taught can be learned at any age. How many golfers have reworked their swing using a swing coach? Virtually every single one. The mechanics of throwing are a skill that can learned. It's just muscle memory. Anything can be learned at any age if the pupil is commited to it.