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An itinerant coaches journey partially explained.
Had a small chapter written about this guy and his experience with the Browns and how its a tangent with the Packers and Infante. Lost to the Gods of DNS, here is the short version.
Marty S, Head Coach of the Browns, having developed a fantastic running game and defense in Cleveland, comes up short in what should have been a win versus the very recent Super Bowl Dolphins in the playoffs. If his team had a competent passing game, they would have routed Marino.
He hires Infante to install a modern passing game for Kosar and GM Ernie Accorsi finds two wideout where there previously were none in Webster Slaughter and Reggie Langhorne. Infante's offense is good enough to get the team to 3 AFC Title games. He is hired by the Packers. Team is dysfunctional enough that Tom Oates of the WiSJ still revels in his ignorance about that offense and to this day derisively refers to it as "Pass to Daylight". ***
To replace Infante, Marty is semi forced to hire Trestman from the Vikings or Tampa rather than promote from within. Kosar agitates for the hire because he loved the guy in Miami when he was an assistant. Trestman is considered brilliant and a real up and comer. Of course he is asked to run the offense as it was under Infante. Results are mediocre, Marty resists making more staff changes at the behest of management and is fired/quits. Trestman, with an injured and immobile Kosar and declining production elsewhere is forced upon new HC Bud Carson.
Remarkably, it doesn't work and Carson and Trestman are both gone in less than 2 years, giving way to Bill Belicheck.
This Tribune story covers much more ground, including how Trestman kept landing himself in some terrible situations. Took a step back and found a way to get himself into better spots. Lets hope the Bears are not one of those better choices.
*** Same kind of cloudy thinking is on display whenever anyone in Madison mentions Don Morton and his Veer offense. According to the bloviators, such an anachronistic and rare offense was not going to succeed with today's kids, who are all about video games and short attention spans. Alvarez comes in with an offense at least as dated and does just as bad as Morton in his first 3 years. However, the increased support by Administration and elevation of the Athletic Dept (and its budget) in importance starts to pay dividends with better recruits.
Lo and behold, with better players, the anachronistic offense begins to succeed and is lauded as the truth, the light and they way.
Stupidly, bloviators cannot wrap their heads around the notion that it wasn't the offense that caused trouble, it was the caliber of player that arrived in Madison. Start to compete financially at a level comparable with the rest of the Big Ten and suddenly players start to show up.
Keep this in mind as the San Francisco 49ers run an inverted veer for touchdowns again in 2013.
Had a small chapter written about this guy and his experience with the Browns and how its a tangent with the Packers and Infante. Lost to the Gods of DNS, here is the short version.
Marty S, Head Coach of the Browns, having developed a fantastic running game and defense in Cleveland, comes up short in what should have been a win versus the very recent Super Bowl Dolphins in the playoffs. If his team had a competent passing game, they would have routed Marino.
He hires Infante to install a modern passing game for Kosar and GM Ernie Accorsi finds two wideout where there previously were none in Webster Slaughter and Reggie Langhorne. Infante's offense is good enough to get the team to 3 AFC Title games. He is hired by the Packers. Team is dysfunctional enough that Tom Oates of the WiSJ still revels in his ignorance about that offense and to this day derisively refers to it as "Pass to Daylight". ***
To replace Infante, Marty is semi forced to hire Trestman from the Vikings or Tampa rather than promote from within. Kosar agitates for the hire because he loved the guy in Miami when he was an assistant. Trestman is considered brilliant and a real up and comer. Of course he is asked to run the offense as it was under Infante. Results are mediocre, Marty resists making more staff changes at the behest of management and is fired/quits. Trestman, with an injured and immobile Kosar and declining production elsewhere is forced upon new HC Bud Carson.
Remarkably, it doesn't work and Carson and Trestman are both gone in less than 2 years, giving way to Bill Belicheck.
This Tribune story covers much more ground, including how Trestman kept landing himself in some terrible situations. Took a step back and found a way to get himself into better spots. Lets hope the Bears are not one of those better choices.
*** Same kind of cloudy thinking is on display whenever anyone in Madison mentions Don Morton and his Veer offense. According to the bloviators, such an anachronistic and rare offense was not going to succeed with today's kids, who are all about video games and short attention spans. Alvarez comes in with an offense at least as dated and does just as bad as Morton in his first 3 years. However, the increased support by Administration and elevation of the Athletic Dept (and its budget) in importance starts to pay dividends with better recruits.
Lo and behold, with better players, the anachronistic offense begins to succeed and is lauded as the truth, the light and they way.
Stupidly, bloviators cannot wrap their heads around the notion that it wasn't the offense that caused trouble, it was the caliber of player that arrived in Madison. Start to compete financially at a level comparable with the rest of the Big Ten and suddenly players start to show up.
Keep this in mind as the San Francisco 49ers run an inverted veer for touchdowns again in 2013.
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