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Or how coaches take being a control freak to such a degree they cannot improve their processes.
Shortly after taking over the team in the mid-1990s, Lurie and Banner commissioned professors from MIT and the University of Pennsylvania to conduct various quantitative studies. One concluded passing more on first down would lead to a more productive offense. This ran counter to their offensive coordinator’s approach. When the season was over, they brought the study to him. It did not go well.
“To say that this coach went berserk would be an understatement,” Banner said, as the outraged coach chewed them out for “thinking we knew better than he did, and interfering, and acting as if we knew football.”
Banner did not want to name the offensive coordinator, though the timing points to current Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden.
“To say that this coach went berserk would be an understatement,” Banner said, as the outraged coach chewed them out for “thinking we knew better than he did, and interfering, and acting as if we knew football.”
Banner did not want to name the offensive coordinator, though the timing points to current Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden.
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