I'll get to the offensive line's play in a little bit, but first I wanted to wax philosophical about Denny Green for a bit.
When I think of Denny as a head coach I'm reminded of the remarks of the Eagles owner shortly after he dismissed Buddy Ryan......" I thought I wanted to win at all costs. I thought that was a good attitude to have. Buddy changed my mind about that way of thinking...."
That's where I see a lot of Buddy Ryan in Dennis Green. That mystifying belief that they can only be good if they do it in an unconventional, abrasive, my-way-or no-way kind of rule. I hardly ever see that method work. At least in the pros. College maybe, in the old days of Woody Hayes and Bear Bryant.
Seems as if Denny is game planning his public personna more than he's formulating a six week run to the very attainable play-offs. Well, very attainable until last weeks implosion.
I don't think Denny's a bad person. I think Denny's a bad manager of human psyches. Sometimes the line gets blurred there. He doesn't have this team right now. Not the whole team. There's still a lot of quiet resentment from a few of the established players because of attitude and application by Denny. Dexter Jackson was not a lone voice in his parting comments last week.
Denny Green is just not the coach that is going to lead a team to a Super Bowl. He simply overthinks and outthinks himself too many times to be able to make the proper rationalizations in crunch time. And along the way he'll blame the media and disenfranchise the loyal fans at the end. And the Bidwills will allow him to spin it with that "I'm going out on my terms", and to Denny that's all that matters
Too bad. We gave him a lot of money. But then what's wrong with wanting to win at any cost?
When I think of Denny as a head coach I'm reminded of the remarks of the Eagles owner shortly after he dismissed Buddy Ryan......" I thought I wanted to win at all costs. I thought that was a good attitude to have. Buddy changed my mind about that way of thinking...."
That's where I see a lot of Buddy Ryan in Dennis Green. That mystifying belief that they can only be good if they do it in an unconventional, abrasive, my-way-or no-way kind of rule. I hardly ever see that method work. At least in the pros. College maybe, in the old days of Woody Hayes and Bear Bryant.
Seems as if Denny is game planning his public personna more than he's formulating a six week run to the very attainable play-offs. Well, very attainable until last weeks implosion.
I don't think Denny's a bad person. I think Denny's a bad manager of human psyches. Sometimes the line gets blurred there. He doesn't have this team right now. Not the whole team. There's still a lot of quiet resentment from a few of the established players because of attitude and application by Denny. Dexter Jackson was not a lone voice in his parting comments last week.
Denny Green is just not the coach that is going to lead a team to a Super Bowl. He simply overthinks and outthinks himself too many times to be able to make the proper rationalizations in crunch time. And along the way he'll blame the media and disenfranchise the loyal fans at the end. And the Bidwills will allow him to spin it with that "I'm going out on my terms", and to Denny that's all that matters
Too bad. We gave him a lot of money. But then what's wrong with wanting to win at any cost?
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