“These Guys Know I’m Not BSing Them”
August 24th, 2017
What’s it like to practice on a Dirk Koetter team?
Well, Koetter and his staff are going to be hard on you, even if they’re wrong and must apologize later.
Koetter explained today that he feels obligated to be candid and uncensored in practice in order to be true to his craft and players. There are no maybes, Koetter explained, he’s reading and reacting and will clean up any messes when they’re spotted.
“I like to trust my gut out here. I mean, I like to tell these guys what I’m thinking, because I think we gotta keep it real with the players,” Koetter told WDAE-AM 620. “These guys know I’m not BSing them. If I don’t like it, I’m going to tell them. If I do, I’m going to tell them. I think you just got to be honest. Hey, I’ve gone [into meetings] plenty of times and told them I was wrong about this or I was wrong about that. But I’m right more than I’m wrong.”
Gotta love the Koetter approach and mindset. “Authentic” comes to mind, which always plays very well in any locker room, office or podcast.
Joe sure hopes one of Koetter’s in house corrections shows up on Hard Knocks. Joe can already envision a guy getting chewed out on HBO, and then 30 seconds later he magically appears in a meeting room getting a “My bad” from the head coach.
August 24th, 2017 at 2:08 pm
I thought his reaction to Jameis’s (almost) Int Thursday night was brilliant. Build them up, break them down and then build them back up. Jimbo used to have those same discussions with Jameis The Messiah.
I just wish Koetter would hire chucky as qb coach or OC. Cuz really, who are we kidding with coach BJ or monken for that matter.
August 24th, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Yes. Perfect.
Monken is a damned good coach. Don’t fool yourself.
August 24th, 2017 at 2:25 pm
Joe was it Greg Augman? Who reported the Glazers making Licht to cut Aguayo? Did he ever told you, “my bad, Joe!” LOL
August 24th, 2017 at 3:37 pm
When you’re truthful with people and run them down when they screw up, that gives you a ton of credibility when you praise them for doing well. Personally I like that, but most of the Generation Glee fruits out there start to cry if you don’t constantly praise them. It’s good to see Jameis wants to be coached hard and doesn’t have to be coddled like Mariota does.
August 24th, 2017 at 7:15 pm
Look what Monken has done with Evans. Too bad he’s not working more with Jamies. Mike Bajakian is who is working with Winston.
August 24th, 2017 at 8:34 pm
Serious question – what did Monken do with Evans that Evans wasn’t already doing? Evans in 2015 had a few game strech of drops otherwise he was the same player in every aspect. Not even saying Monken is good or bad, but what do you think he did exactly?
August 24th, 2017 at 8:43 pm
Monken is great.
This coming from a guy who idolizes Gruden.