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Why coaches state obvious like "We need to get off to a fast start?"

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TraceOneInfinite:
One thing I will never understand about sports, both in coaching and in commentating, analyzing, is all the statements of the obvious.   I happened to be browsing through this Bill Belicheck book on the Patriots first and second Superbowl, and I was expecting to read something about why he's the genius and winner that he is, and all I get is stuff like this...

"Coach Bellicheck analyzed that the Patriots needed to be more efficient on third down and needed to take better care of the ball."

"He realized it was imperative to get off to a fast start against the Jets".

etc., etc. etc....

NO SHIT!!  So did he want to get off to a slow start?  Does he want to be less efficient on third down?  Does he want to turn the ball over more?


I hear this kind of stuff in coaching and sports radio all the time and it drives me crazy.

Citizen-Y:
Belichick will talk in cliches just so the media has nothing to write about because he hates them.  All the coaches hates the media.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: Citizen-Y on September 04, 2013, 04:22:55 PM ---Belichick will talk in cliches just so the media has nothing to write about because he hates them.  All the coaches hates the media.

--- End quote ---

yeah, that's true. 

But what about when the sports talk radio and analysts do it?

Sccit:
sometimes we need to be reminded of the most obvious things, so that it can be freshly re-inforced in our minds when were ready to get out there and perform. it comes off as cliche, but thats what the great coaches do. it aint what u say, it's the energy u put behind it.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: NIKCC on September 04, 2013, 05:51:44 PM ---sometimes we need to be reminded of the most obvious things, so that it can be freshly re-inforced in our minds when were ready to get out there and perform. it comes off as cliche, but thats what the great coaches do. it aint what u say, it's the energy u put behind it.

--- End quote ---

Fair enough.  

Just seems like something anybody could do.  I mean.. I could look at a football game and say, "Ohhh, we got off to a slow start.  Ohhh, we didn't tackle well enough, we need to tackle better.  ...We are having too many dropped passes, this team needs to focus and catch the ball".   You want to believe that a guy like Bell-a-check has some kind of superior wisdom that the average guy doesn't have.

 Like Phil Jackson for example, you can tell from his books and interviews that he was on another level, so it makes sense that he had the success that he did.

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