See now your changing what I said. I don’t always blame the teacher. Nor do I put all of this on kliff. I’ve been entirely consistent with my comments on the board that there’s plenty of blame to go around and unlike all the posters who think murray is entirely at fault or kliff is entirely at fault or the slide is vances fault I understand that the greatest likelihood is that they all (as well as other players, and injuries) play a part in the failures. For kyler it’s likely primarily kyler abd kliff though. By your own admission above of its 60-70% on the player that leaves a WHOPPING 30-40% of the responsibility on the coach. If a coach fails in that 30-40% it’s potentially disastrous for the development of that player.
I mean let’s look at what that equates to:
Let’s say you have 10 tests.
Kyler scores 80% on 7 of them. Kliff scores 70% (let’s give a C, not even a D) on 3 of them. That’s a 77% average grade dragging Kyler’s performance from a B- to a C+. If kliff score a 65% that drags kyler to a C. If kliff actually fails it drags kyler down to a C- or even D+.
If we raise kliff’s influence to 40% then it drops each tier down an entire grade.
And if kyler is struggling (let’s give him an average grade of 73, so C-), kliffs impact at 30-40% becomes almost disastrous (72%; 70%; and 66%).
So I think dismissing kliff’s role in kylers success is just flat out weird . . . by your own metrics.
I'm not dismissing it. I'm just saying that so many people say Kyler's issues are Kliff are ignoring the reality. Not you in particular, you've been fairly evenhanded.
HCs are ultimately responsible, but the issue you run into is that if the player is the issue (which I clearly think is the case), sometimes NO HC will get any better out of them. It's not like Bill Walsh is waiting in the wings to come in and do a better job than Kliff. I'm of the opinion that there aren't too many coaches out there that would have done better than Kliff.
His offense for most of the season was one of the top offenses in the league. That definitely fell off, but still finished the year amongst the best.
I wonder if the length of an NFL season and Kyler's lack of preparation is the biggest issue, basically he starts to wear down as the year goes on and with the wear and tear of the season, he is no longer capable of going out there and beating people with inferior preparation. If this is the case, Kliff is kind of screwed, unless the Cardinals can lessen the wear and tear on Kyler and keep him fresher later in the season.
I'm a huge Kyler fan and I think he's ultimately going to be the player people think of when they think of the Cardinals 30 years from now. He just has so much untapped potential. But I think he needs to grow up a little and focus more on being a professional. I don't think he is completely blowing off his job, but I also don't think he realizes just how much better he would be if conducted a few more hours of film study. If I was the Cardinals, I'd probably try to talk Carson Palmer into helping out in the QB room as more of a mentor. Palmer was pretty studious, but he also is cool enough that he wouldn't come off as a fuddy duddy with Kyler.