Bill Walsh: Finding the Winning edge

Originally posted by dfs144:
I am currently reading this masterpiece written by the late/great Bill Walsh and it has been a checklist on how to run an NFL franchise. He discussed the role of each level in the organization. It also shows me that Jed York and Trent Baalke have done the exact opposite of what Bill would have done.
Specific example: Position coaches undermining the Coordinator and/or Head Coach, should be handled accordingly and dealt with to prevent internal decay of the organization. If Jed or Trent have a copy of this book, it's obvious they have never read a single page of it!

s**t. They're too arrogant. Remember hearing about the piles of boxes and boxes of old team meeting notes and all the team meetings Bill had video taped? They sat in storage in the facility for years and no one bothered to dig it up and use it as a tool. Hell, if I remember correctly, didn't McCloughan take some of it to Seattle with him?

Originally posted by Morgan49:

Originally posted by dfs144:
I am currently reading this masterpiece written by the late/great Bill Walsh and it has been a checklist on how to run an NFL franchise. He discussed the role of each level in the organization. It also shows me that Jed York and Trent Baalke have done the exact opposite of what Bill would have done.
Specific example: Position coaches undermining the Coordinator and/or Head Coach, should be handled accordingly and dealt with to prevent internal decay of the organization. If Jed or Trent have a copy of this book, it's obvious they have never read a single page of it!

s**t. They're too arrogant. Remember hearing about the piles of boxes and boxes of old team meeting notes and all the team meetings Bill had video taped? They sat in storage in the facility for years and no one bothered to dig it up and use it as a tool. Hell, if I remember correctly, didn't McCloughan take some of it to Seattle with him?

Actually, from what I remember from my collections of (then) 49ers Report, Mike Shanahan had them found and made a copy of each one of the tapes which included from Team Meeting, to Coaches Meeting, Opinion Sessions, and game planning..

I also remember how Mike Shanahan was so confused as to how Bill was able to draft those first 25 plays and diagram them into a tree of "IFs" so that certain plays will be called after certain results..

and in the end, Shanahan was so lost that he ended up just drafting 15 plays.

Sad, even that 49ers Report Newspaper was cancelled.