Without Brady that personality hasn't done sh!t. In the last 13 years, the Steelers and "serious Tomlin" have made the playoffs 7 times. 4 of those times went 1 and done. Made the AFCCG once, and lost. In 13 years they've won 4 playoff games. In the past 6 years they've done what the Dolphins have done. Made the playoffs 2 times and lost both times in the WC round. I love Acho, but he has not one idea of what happens in that locker room. McD's personality in front of the media doesn't necessarily reflect his private convo's with his players. McD's personality doesn't cause injuries. And injuries are why this team didn't win the division and have a home playoff game.
There are basically two types of personalities: A "Player's Coach" A disciplinarian Both types have had great success in the NFL
Dan Campbell is a players’ coach, but he is serious and driven and not goofy. You won’t find a historical exemplar of McDaniel’s goofy, non-serious personality that won big in the NFL. In other words, your putting coaches into those two simple categories does not distinguish among them in a nuanced enough manner.
You keep calling McDaniel "non serious", "not driven" and it couldn't be further from the truth. Just because he doesn't yell and scream and cry like a baboon like Campbell doesn't mean he doesn't take it serious. McDaniel was out of the NFL for a couple of years because he had a serious drinking problem. He is not taking things for granted and not taking things "non serious".
How McDaniel feels on the inside and how he relates to his players can be two totally different things.
A team takes on the personality of its coach —> coach relates to his players in a goofy, non-serious manner —> team has difficulty becoming serious when the need arises. Not sure why anything other than that would be expected. It’s a pretty simple process.
None of us knows how he deals with players off camera, at a personal level. To say it’s the same as how he deals with the media is speculation, plain and simple.
I'm not necessarily agaist McDaniel's style, per se, but I do feel like the team wasn't mentally strong. Like they just didn't seem to have that heart or fire in those late season games. McDaniel has got to find a way to change that. Maybe he needs some real hard *** assistants to balance him. I dunno.
The fun part is when you realize that certain posters are actually talking to themselves. Whoever this individual is hasn't been IP banned completely because they finally figured out to use a VPN maybe five years ago. They've very determined though- you have to give them that!
The question is whether McDaniel has the capacity to change that, because changing that comes from having — and expressing — that heart and fire and intensity oneself in the position of head coach.
I guess we will have to disagree. The way that’s expressed doesn’t infuse anyone with any greater heart or fire or intensity than they had previously in my opinion. The difference between that and Jimmy Johnson’s video above is palpable and visceral.
Steve Atwater agrees with me: "Over that month, though, players began to recognize him and realize the truth that we have all come to know now: Mike McDaniel is relentless. Most eventually gave in and signed something for the kid. Players and coaches got to know him, and Mike spent that August as the team's unofficial mascot. One day toward the end of camp, Atwater walked off the field, saw Mike and handed him his preseason cleats." https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39280819/mike-mcdaniel-miami-dolphins I guess Atwater wasn't "intense" either?
"He’s very emotionally connected with the players," said Dolphins running back Raheem Mostert, who also played for McDaniel in San Francisco. "It's authentic. When a head coach comes in, you want to see how, especially as a player, you want to see how authentic that coach can be. He hasn’t changed from Day One." https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story...iel-intellectual-but-no-introvert/8032763001/
No...we're putting up 2+2=4...irrefutable proof and facts... and you're putting your fingers in your ears and yelling "NA...NA...NA"
No, you’re simply perceiving what you’re posting and giving it a certain degree of weight that I am not. That could be happening as well for you with regard to what I’m posting, but apparently the difference is that I don’t care if you agree with me or not.
Those quotes aren't disagreeing with what Crash has said. He hasn't said he isn't liked by the players, or that he didn't connect with the players. One guy said he was "authentic" and "connected to the players," and the other guy said he was "relentless." Well I didn't see "relentless" play on the field to end the season, so if McD is those things, he apparently didn't pass it on to the players.
Show me a video where McDaniel is pissed off at the team and exhorting them to do better and the emotion he is expressing is palpable and visceral. Any coach unable or unwilling to do that is missing a key ingredient of what it takes to coach a professional football team.
Tom Coughlin was a strict disciplinarian. They forced him to tone it down and become more of a players coach and then they won two super bowls.
So by extension someone at the other end of the spectrum, who is a fun and games goofball, would need to turn up the volume, correct?
