Official Texans vs. 49ers Game Thread, 12/10/2017

[barrett]

Originally Posted by chuck

Coaches get ideas about guys and it's the rare coach that's able to revise one of those ideas. The fact that Case Keenum is having a pretty successful year as a starter does not surprise me nearly as much as the fact that a team actually let him win a starting job.

I wonder how viable football at any level is on an ongoing basis unless significant helmet technological improvement is made immediately.

I think it's more a GM thing than a coach thing. GMs wield the real power.
Football as a profession is ego driven like every other profession. GMs don't get much credit for accidents in their favor. GMs also don't get credit for guys acquired by someone else. GMs only get called geniuses for drafting/signing their own guy and having him succeed. It's why Drew Brees has spent the last decade mostly winning in New Orleans instead of mostly winning in San Diego. It's why Blake Bortles is still playing in Jacksonville and will probably ruin a playoff game for them when TJ Yates could probably lead that defense to a win.

So guys stand by "their guys" because they want credit and because if they can fix "their guys" then they were never really wrong in the first place. So draft pick Tom Savage sticks around for years because Rick Smith wants to one day be proven right for drafting him.