http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2005/07/07/hank-stram-rip/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:39:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2005/07/07/hank-stram-rip/#comment-339 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2005/07/07/hank-stram-rip/#comment-339 Football coaches. Is football the sport where the coach has the most game time influence over the outcome of that game? Baseball managers and relief pitchers? Any third grader with any math skills can create a good starting lineup. Basketball coaches. Drawn-up plays after a time out. The occasional substitution. Don't the players (or their respective managers) actually make all the important decisions. Defensive strategy. Are there any other sports? I think hockey is a sport. Line changes. "Don't ice the puck". Some defensive sets. How about boxing? Forgot about that one. Trainers have quite an effect on their subject/boxer. One on one. Back to football. With the complexity of the game itself, as well as the intricacies of the locker room and player diversity/mentality (i.e. offense v defense v special teams v OL v DL v QB v CB etc.) football coaches are so important and integral to the actual team as well as the organization as a whole, not to mention the time spent in preparation for each game (practices, meetings, film) what a great ambling rambling run on sentence this has turned out to be. What I am trying to say is Here's to Hank Stram and the rest of the football coaches from Pop Warner, semi-pro, arena, college, high school etc. Man I love football. Tune in next week when I rip on Lance Armstrong. Football coaches. Is football the sport where the coach has the most game time influence over the outcome of that game? Baseball managers and relief pitchers? Any third grader with any math skills can create a good starting lineup. Basketball coaches. Drawn-up plays after a time out. The occasional substitution. Don’t the players (or their respective managers) actually make all the important decisions. Defensive strategy. Are there any other sports? I think hockey is a sport. Line changes. “Don’t ice the puck”. Some defensive sets. How about boxing? Forgot about that one. Trainers have quite an effect on their subject/boxer. One on one. Back to football. With the complexity of the game itself, as well as the intricacies of the locker room and player diversity/mentality (i.e. offense v defense v special teams v OL v DL v QB v CB etc.) football coaches are so important and integral to the actual team as well as the organization as a whole, not to mention the time spent in preparation for each game (practices, meetings, film) what a great ambling rambling run on sentence this has turned out to be. What I am trying to say is Here’s to Hank Stram and the rest of the football coaches from Pop Warner, semi-pro, arena, college, high school etc. Man I love football. Tune in next week when I rip on Lance Armstrong.

]]> http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2005/07/07/hank-stram-rip/#comment-340 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2005/07/07/hank-stram-rip/#comment-340 Coaches serve so many roles in the modern NFL. They have to be motivators, game managers, posess media savvy, and have the vision to cultivate a philosophy that best utilizes the unique talents of their personnel and coaching staff. Meanwhile, they must be able to perform these tasks in overdrive since the NFL season is so comparatively short to the other major professional sports. All of this doesn't account for the NFL being the most violent and intense of all of the major sports. Whitey don't push Lance off of his bike, so many people are trying to argue that he is great athlete on par with Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, Walter Payton , etc that it makes me want to vomit. Coaches serve so many roles in the modern NFL. They have to be motivators, game managers, posess media savvy, and have the vision to cultivate a philosophy that best utilizes the unique talents of their personnel and coaching staff. Meanwhile, they must be able to perform these tasks in overdrive since the NFL season is so comparatively short to the other major professional sports. All of this doesn’t account for the NFL being the most violent and intense of all of the major sports. Whitey don’t push Lance off of his bike, so many people are trying to argue that he is great athlete on par with Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth, Walter Payton , etc that it makes me want to vomit.

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