As a Chargers fan, I have been struggling with understanding how this San Diego team with so much talent can be playing so listlessly - and I know I'm not the only one. I think I discovered it in a quote by Shaun Phillips: “We play better off emotion, ... we realize we're a better team when we play emotionally. " His statement rings true when watching a game, you practically see the energy and a frantic precision as the ball is snapped.
Look at the contrast within the Eagles vs Pats game, New England is a team is more comfortable in a steady rhythm, an almost sterile precision. With emotion and a few less timely interceptions the Eagles QB, Freely, would have become known as a Pats killer.
I have yet to be a Norv Turner fan, - that awful regular season record - coaching some pretty good teams -, but Norv and the Chargers brass need to recognize this answer disguised as a post game comment. Norv the quiet and reserved one and AJ Smith the one of sterile precision need to borrow a little emotion from the exiled Marty. It takes too long to change a team in the short term, here the coach needs to change a little and be more emotional, and accept and expect more emotion in the play of his team.
To coach and achieve, everyone needs to recognize what fuels the organization. You must know first what type of team you are, and then design the solution around that team charisma and chemistry. This is why formulamatic solutions do not work with consistency, even teams must learn and adapt solutions and ideas to their Entity Identity. To change results you change an approach, to change a character you have to change personnel. This applies to sports teams as well as business teams. People and teams have a hard time being something they are not. If you have the right people to be successul then approaches are a lot easier to change than the team.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Updates and Upgrades
Aggravation pays me a visit regularly. As I begin work, or play. When I turn it on and even when I turn it off. The pop-up, the reminder, and 'message box of incompatibility', buzz me like the swarm of mosquitoes poking at me to suck the time right out of me.
As we move further into the information age and further remove ourselves from being the physical attendant of the mechanical tool, we still seem to be headed toward an unsustainable burden of maintenance. Not the logical prediction of too much information, I can't get to the information highway through the speed bumps of software upgrades and updates.
Every day my virus software has to consume resources to get updates, my operating system has a regular schedule for updates, if I use more than a handful of software applications I have to go through a yearly upgrade expenditure and adventure, usually multiple times before its working like it did before I had to touch it.
I don't have to worry about computer zombies, or my system gaining a intelligence to take over the world, most of its up time and resources are consumed by this near endless maintenance. Its like a compulsive cat that has to constantly lick itself clean so its too busy interact with the world around it. Welcome to the 21st century.
As we move further into the information age and further remove ourselves from being the physical attendant of the mechanical tool, we still seem to be headed toward an unsustainable burden of maintenance. Not the logical prediction of too much information, I can't get to the information highway through the speed bumps of software upgrades and updates.
Every day my virus software has to consume resources to get updates, my operating system has a regular schedule for updates, if I use more than a handful of software applications I have to go through a yearly upgrade expenditure and adventure, usually multiple times before its working like it did before I had to touch it.
I don't have to worry about computer zombies, or my system gaining a intelligence to take over the world, most of its up time and resources are consumed by this near endless maintenance. Its like a compulsive cat that has to constantly lick itself clean so its too busy interact with the world around it. Welcome to the 21st century.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Dodgers Rip Heart out of New York, Again!
1958, the New York neighborhood of Brooklyn lost its heart and maybe its identity in the migratory move of the Dodgers baseball team to Los Angeles California.
Now, and again, in 2007 the Dodgers - more by default on the part of the Yankee's management - are migrating the heart and soul of a familiar and successful New York Yankees team out to the west coast. First the skipper, much loved among his coaches and players; Joe Torre is hired by the Dodgers and with that, an apparent siphon of talent and experience if not of champions.
Mattingly and Bowa flesh out a western Yankees coaching staff. What of the players that can in their power follow that lead and their hearts to a westward way - Rivera, Pettite, Posada. Who knows maybe even Joe can get Don Zimmer back.
A championship with the Yankees replanted in sunny southern California is not likely to change dispositions or results. We're in for a period of well made dynasties with core young players which teams are built around or the hot young upstarts that can keep it going through the world series. Not aging stars in active retirement to sun and comfort.
This just may be a crumble of the walls of the evil empire with an exodus of blood and guts that put the performance on the field.
Let's hope so. I'm an Orioles fan, what else do I have to hope for?
Now, and again, in 2007 the Dodgers - more by default on the part of the Yankee's management - are migrating the heart and soul of a familiar and successful New York Yankees team out to the west coast. First the skipper, much loved among his coaches and players; Joe Torre is hired by the Dodgers and with that, an apparent siphon of talent and experience if not of champions.
Mattingly and Bowa flesh out a western Yankees coaching staff. What of the players that can in their power follow that lead and their hearts to a westward way - Rivera, Pettite, Posada. Who knows maybe even Joe can get Don Zimmer back.
A championship with the Yankees replanted in sunny southern California is not likely to change dispositions or results. We're in for a period of well made dynasties with core young players which teams are built around or the hot young upstarts that can keep it going through the world series. Not aging stars in active retirement to sun and comfort.
This just may be a crumble of the walls of the evil empire with an exodus of blood and guts that put the performance on the field.
Let's hope so. I'm an Orioles fan, what else do I have to hope for?
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