Nick Underhill: Players organizing a Players-Only Meeting

Rouxble said

This morning on NFL Radio, they talked about Dungy (and other HC's that didn't call plays), and highlighted how some HC's (like Tomlin) are 100% invested in the role while others are only 50% in because they are too busy calling plays. Tomlin currently has the Steelers at 6-2 and 1st in the AFCN with a QB duo of Fields and Wilson, and he has never had a losing season as HC of the Steelers, even with Kenny Pickett as his QB.

Payton seemed to have a rare ability to be both coordinator and HC, but the hosts complained that most play calling HC's are too lost in their play sheets to manage the team during the game. When things are going well it isn't noticed, but when things are going poorly then the ship just keeps drifting further into the storm with the captain nowhere in sight. That seems to be where we are now.

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This has always been an issue for me with DA. From Day 1 he has treated the offense, at least when speaking publicly and from what we can tell on game days, like it isn’t his problem. It’s an odd separation of responsibility dynamic that he carried over from his previous DC role.

Even SP, when he was the offensive play caller, would still be visibly getting in defensive players’ faces and sometimes even the DC would catch heat.

I really don’t like the defensive play caller HC coaching model in general. I think this is an offensive game overall, and the main decision maker should be someone that has the offense at the forefront of each choice he makes, if you’re indeed going with the play caller HC model.

I do like the “Leader of Men,” “I am in charge of the game management and management of the people only” model too though, like Tomlin.