GM's vs. Head Coaches (1 Viewer)

[M. Flak]

Let's say you could choose between:

An elite GM and average HC

An elite HC and average GM

What franchise would be better off?

 

[Warpig]

Hmmm...I'm leaning towards having an elite GM. My thought of an elite GM is one that has a FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE...not just business knowledge. If your GM has a fundamental knowledge of football, you'd think he'd be able to sniff out the more talented players and the ones that will be successful as opposed to the players that are head cases or studs in shorts only.

If you have the better players, seems like you just need a coach to teach them the system and point them in the right direction and let them play.

So I'd want an elite GM that keeps my roster stocked with the better players and one that isn't afraid to make sound moves to improve the team.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Over time, elite GMs tend to attract(and keep) elite HCs. Over time, elite HCs tend to tend to not work for average GMs for very long.

That said, I don't know that it wouldn't be better to have "elite ownership" over either. That way you're more likely to wind up with strong upper level management/coaching across the board.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

Elite GM. Coaching regimes come and go but it wont matter if there's an architect with a single vision supplying the talent and dictating the coaching hires based on scheme fit.

It wasn't obvious Tomlin was an average HC until the talent dried up a bit.

 

[menobrown]

Elite head coach.

To use an old Parcell's cooking analogy. Give a bad chef great ingredients and he'll still serve up crap but a good chef can rummage through the pantry and serve you up something nice.

 

[Raiderfan32904]

A good GM is worth his weight in gold. What's a good owner do? Sign checks? BFD. Good GM's are connected with the right people and know how to recruit good coaches. It's all systemic and flows through the GM. A bad GM can literally spoil a franchise and set it back to the stone age.

Can't overlook the elite HC/elite QB combo. That is a bonafide requirement to being any good.

 

[steelers1080]

I go elite Head Coach. They have the ability to coax players to play above their normal level.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

Elite head coach.

To use an old Parcell's cooking analogy. Give a bad chef great ingredients and he'll still serve up crap but a good chef can rummage through the pantry and serve you up something nice.

The thread says average, not bad. An average coach supplied with great talent should beat out a great coach supplied with average talent, over time. That's my opinion. Simple schemes work when you have elite players executing. There's less chance an average HC's inability to manage the clock or call a game or throw the challenge flag is the back-breaker, when you've got elite talent. Whereas a great HC will get the most out of his guys, but every mistake on the field is magnified because the margin for error is slim when you're scheming your way to victory with average talent. Everything has to click.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

What's a good owner do? Sign checks? BFD.

"You're right. Lousy owners don't effect their franchises in anyway. All they do is sign checks.

Signed,

Al Davis' Ghost"

Who vets/hires the Elite GM?

 

[Raiderfan32904]

What's a good owner do? Sign checks? BFD.

You're right. Lousy owners don't effect their franchises in anyway. All they do is sign checks.

Who vets/hires the Elite GM?

Anyone who doesn't pay attention to John Madden or Ron Wolf.