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Phil Riewer -> RE: General Vikes Talk (8/28/2019 9:23:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: odin
I was wondering about some of Zimmer's motives recently and came up with some questions.
Why would he apparently rather have a lamb than a lion at QB? Perhaps having someone he perceives as a "gunslinger" at the QB position, even as the #2, creates the fear that his defense (his main identity, rather than the team as a whole?) might get put in bad positions and make him look like less of a guru. If the team (hypothetically) scores 56 more points and also allows 28 more points over a season as a result of the gunslinger's willingness to take measured risks, would he be happy with that?
Does Zimmer wants the team to rally around him and he's too insecure to handle his team rallying around/ responding to Sloter? Is that why he seemingly undermines Sloter at nearly every opportunity and reinforces that HE is the HMIC? Or...does he perceive Cousins as being too mentally skittish to handle Sloter being #2 without the buffer of Mannion between them?
Has his (job) insecurity made him too short-term of a thinker? Look at NE, most everything they do is with the long-term health of the team in mind, over time this has a positive snowball effect.
Disturbingly, Zimmer is reminding me of Childress with his "programmatic non-fit" type of comments when Moss was dumped and also his "tough guy" approach.
From a psychometric/mental health perspective: Have you noticed that the team not only seems to like to draft players who genuinely love the game and are highly intelligent, but are also not over-the-top narcissistic/toxic? This is great overall for team chemistry, but sometimes a very talented strong leader will march to his own drummer and the team will rally around him in a positive way and it is something the coach needs to be secure enough to handle without cutting off his nose to spite his face.
I think the problem has been the resources spent on the defense versus Oline and improving the Offense. I think drafting C Bradbury, Mattison, and the TE Smith as well has using other draft resources Udoh, Samia, and signing Kline will pay off.
The problem when Zimmer first arrived is that they fixed the defense right away but he has still used too many resources on that side.....not sure if that is narcissistic or just what he knows best. By getting Kubiak in here to solve the oline issues and him having a voice in what to do on offense will help. Even though the resources were spent on defense they originally had to be almost near perfect and use the double A gap blitz, cb blitz, and be very aggressive which wore out the defense by the time playoffs happened. They should be able to save the defense more this year with a healthy Cook, drafting Mattison, Smith, and getting some oline pieces.
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