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Posted by jellis at 2/22/2011 5:19 PM CST on truebluefanclub.com
With a new regime taking over, there are going to be some things that change as far as what type of player the coaching staff needs and/or wants.
All the offensive coaches are back, so maybe this doesn't affect that side of the ball as much as it does the defense, which has gone from needing guys from Bill Parcells' 3-4 to Wade Phillips' 3-4 to, now, Rob Ryan's 3-4.
With Jason Garrett taking over, might he have requested, on behalf of his assistants, a bigger role in the evaluation of incoming rookies? Well, maybe not.
"We've had conversations, obviously, on what our job will be to help the scouts," offensive line coach Hudson Houck said. "I would assume it's probably going to be about the same as before. That's only my assumption. Maybe I'm wrong in assuming that. But it would be giving them our opinion and our grade on a guy."
As things have been working, position coaches take a look at the prospects they would work with, and even cross-check the scouts' work. But the scouts' judgment gets the highest priority in the war room, and this week's NFL Scouting Combine is really for them moreso than the coaches.
"I've got great respect for the scouts because they are the ones that watch a guy practice," Houck said. "That's how you see what's up here (in the mind). We talk about the mind controlling the body. Well, you know, they're going to be right on in interviews at the combine, they're going to be everything. So as coaches what we can evaluate is a guy on tape. So I put a lot of stock in what our scouts say about a guy and his mental potential."
With a new regime taking over, there are going to be some things that change as far as what type of player the coaching staff needs and/or wants.
All the offensive coaches are back, so maybe this doesn't affect that side of the ball as much as it does the defense, which has gone from needing guys from Bill Parcells' 3-4 to Wade Phillips' 3-4 to, now, Rob Ryan's 3-4.
With Jason Garrett taking over, might he have requested, on behalf of his assistants, a bigger role in the evaluation of incoming rookies? Well, maybe not.
"We've had conversations, obviously, on what our job will be to help the scouts," offensive line coach Hudson Houck said. "I would assume it's probably going to be about the same as before. That's only my assumption. Maybe I'm wrong in assuming that. But it would be giving them our opinion and our grade on a guy."
As things have been working, position coaches take a look at the prospects they would work with, and even cross-check the scouts' work. But the scouts' judgment gets the highest priority in the war room, and this week's NFL Scouting Combine is really for them moreso than the coaches.
"I've got great respect for the scouts because they are the ones that watch a guy practice," Houck said. "That's how you see what's up here (in the mind). We talk about the mind controlling the body. Well, you know, they're going to be right on in interviews at the combine, they're going to be everything. So as coaches what we can evaluate is a guy on tape. So I put a lot of stock in what our scouts say about a guy and his mental potential."
