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Players coach, former players turn coaching is the current hot trend in the NBA. Championship teams, too. I'm not sure it will work in the NFL. But the more I read about Lynn and what he said, the way he talks, ect., he's growing on me a bit. He seems to be a charismatic leader and probably a guy who I want to go to war with.
"Leader" is kind of a general concept nowadays and can be interpret in different ways, but he has some of the things that I like. Funny guy. Cussing a lot. Extremely aggressive. Not a "nice guy" at all. He's not a jerk by any mean but he's not Mike Riley, Norv or McCoy. He will get to a player's face. Cool guy. Talks and do things like current players, so he relates well to them. Fan of Martyball and attacking/aggressive Wade Phillips style of defense. He's better than Marty in term of X&O of the running game and the run blocking and ways to use RBs on screens and short passing situations. What he lacks is the X&O part of the passing game. That's why he's cool to retain Whiz. He needs Whiz to help him on the passing game.
He has a very deceptive experience due to the image that he's only be the coordinator this year. But this guy is a football guy since a kid and cannot have a season without football. He's like Belichick, Rivers, Brady in that without football he doesn't know what to do. So after retired from playing football he jumped immediately into coaching. He coached NFL players for 16 years, but only has 1 season of directly involve with X&O of the whole offense, so he's a true players coach and not a schemer, strategician, tactician by any mean.
A very out-of-the-box hire. He's unique in that he has no systems and doesn't come from any coaching tree. He worked under some good coaches in the same amount of time, spent times with different systems.
His running game knowledge mostly came from DEN and Shannahan. Which is probably a good thing since they had a dominant running game during those years. After the NFL banned the cut block, Shannahan sucked in DEN but Shanahan Jr. offenses seems to run the ball well. Lynn's BUF offense also ran the ball really well, actually near the top in league that include the likes of Zeke, Murray, Freeman/Coleman, Gordon, David Johnson, Bell, etc.. So, I'm still skeptical because of their recent failure in picking head coach but I do feel warmer now more than a few days ago.
"Leader" is kind of a general concept nowadays and can be interpret in different ways, but he has some of the things that I like. Funny guy. Cussing a lot. Extremely aggressive. Not a "nice guy" at all. He's not a jerk by any mean but he's not Mike Riley, Norv or McCoy. He will get to a player's face. Cool guy. Talks and do things like current players, so he relates well to them. Fan of Martyball and attacking/aggressive Wade Phillips style of defense. He's better than Marty in term of X&O of the running game and the run blocking and ways to use RBs on screens and short passing situations. What he lacks is the X&O part of the passing game. That's why he's cool to retain Whiz. He needs Whiz to help him on the passing game.
He has a very deceptive experience due to the image that he's only be the coordinator this year. But this guy is a football guy since a kid and cannot have a season without football. He's like Belichick, Rivers, Brady in that without football he doesn't know what to do. So after retired from playing football he jumped immediately into coaching. He coached NFL players for 16 years, but only has 1 season of directly involve with X&O of the whole offense, so he's a true players coach and not a schemer, strategician, tactician by any mean.
A very out-of-the-box hire. He's unique in that he has no systems and doesn't come from any coaching tree. He worked under some good coaches in the same amount of time, spent times with different systems.
His running game knowledge mostly came from DEN and Shannahan. Which is probably a good thing since they had a dominant running game during those years. After the NFL banned the cut block, Shannahan sucked in DEN but Shanahan Jr. offenses seems to run the ball well. Lynn's BUF offense also ran the ball really well, actually near the top in league that include the likes of Zeke, Murray, Freeman/Coleman, Gordon, David Johnson, Bell, etc.. So, I'm still skeptical because of their recent failure in picking head coach but I do feel warmer now more than a few days ago.
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