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Originally Posted by Dam8610
Good players can overcome bad scheme. Bad players can overcome good scheme. The latter happens far more often. The job of coaches is to get their players to maximize their talent. Scheme can help with that, but ultimately the coach can't go out and catch the ball or make the tackle. The player has to do that. That's why the impact of coaching is negligible on gameday.
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Good coaching shows up on game day because you "coach them up", educate them, teach them, drill them... to be ready for game day.
You know why Howard Mudd kept getting jobs? He could take a guy like Jeff Saturday, a smart hard working guy, and turn him into an all pro. Peyton Manning was not a great athlete. But he may have been one of the smartest. He had a lot of help from Tom Moore. Moore gave him the concepts, he went out and completed them.
Ryan Leaf was a better athlete than Manning. I saw them play in Indy in the preseason. Leaf could throw the ball out of the dome. But he couldn't be coached.
Great players, have ability and they can take coaching. It's a marriage. Great athletes can be schemed. Their ability to change and defeat the scheme is what makes them great. But that takes coaching.
Using your logic, I should be an NFL coach and in the HOF