I put a ton of stock into a player's success or lack thereof into good or bad coaching. If the coaching doesn't really matter then why do we have them or pay them? We just need Johnson on offense and someone to call blitzes on defense and 8 recruiters by your logic.
Also, the whole argument about only people at practice know anything - hogwash. We get 12 litmus tests every year. Defensive secondary has consistently had some of the most athletic talent on the team. And what else is there EXCEPT for on the field results? You sound like Johnson saying that the kids didn't run the right play. Well gosh coach, I wonder why? Either they were confused (coaches fault), didn't know the play based on the call (coaches fault) or didn't care enough to take it seriously (coaches fault).
The truth is I don't care what the heck the coaches do. Have the kids do yoga, play Xbox, run until the puke, it really does not matter. What matters is W's. Period. Johnson can fly the whole team and staff to Brazil and they learn Jiu Jitsu and by golly if we win more games then awesome.
Here's an argument I AM willing to accept: I don't know how much of our secondary play was dictated by Roof or not, especially in terms of depth at the snap.
What I do see is a bunch of guys back there who often don't take good angles to tackle, don't use the sideline as an extra defender very well, and consistently miscommunicate and have coverage breakdowns. That's coaching. I don't see guys who are too slow or can't jump or rotate their hips. Again, how much of that is Speed versus Roof? No clue.
Ultimately, other than McCollum it wouldn't be a bad idea to me to clean house on most of the staff offense and defense because we just aren't getting it done ANYwhere. The offense was mediocre to bad in parts. The defense was a conundrum in that they did do a lot more of what we asked for in terms of stops/punts . . . except when it mattered and we really needed to have it.
So, my question to you is: if coaches don't impact a player's development or lack there of, what does? And if you can't grade a coach based on field results, how do you grade one?
Fat lot of good it does us if the team practices like Bama during the week and then plays like 2017 Georgia Tech in the game. I submit that MAYBE, different coaches will have different expectations and performance metrics during the week of practice, which could hopefully lead to improved performance on the weekend.
