AgentDib":1x3n07yu said:
Fans will always be into the cult of the new; Arians was the hot NFC coach not even two full seasons ago. Last season some of the exact same posters in this thread were saying that Dak and Zeke would own the NFC for the next decade.
The complainy fans are always the most insular as you cannot watch the broader NFL spectrum and still maintain some of these naive beliefs. Your hometown team isn't more talented than everybody else forever, worse teams beat better teams, and the newest success always seems the brightest but it seldom lasts. Reversion to the mean is real and it's silly to trend a few good outcomes infinitely upwards.
The entertainment around these discussions is predicting which hot team everybody is going to be concerned about next. Meanwhile, other NFC teams have consistently been concerned about the Seahawks.
Fantastic post.
"Cult of the new"... I like that. The grass is always greener on the other side, right? People assume that just because we change coordinators or coaches that it's going to be an improvement. Addition by subtraction. Sorry, but given how successful our coaches -- yes, even Bevell -- have been, there's a pretty good chance we we won't be better ... we might legitimately be worse.
Fans have this delusional belief that "bad playcalling" is unique to their team. It's not. Everybody complains about their OC's alleged shortcomings.
People accuse Carroll of being stubborn, or of being a dinosaur. So what? Despite this, he's been virtually without equal in terms of success. Belichick is pretty much the only one that surpasses him in terms of sustained success these past 6 years. Meanwhile, you have a coach like Chip Kelly -- a guy who inarguably ran one of the most innovative and unique offenses we've seen in the last decade -- who was a complete flash in the pan.