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.
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