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Re:Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach by fipple on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:27AM (#17845426)
You can see this phenomenon in American football where the pretty good quarterbacks often become great coaches but the very best quarterbacks rarely do. The pretty good ones got good by being very detailed students of the game, memorizing thousands of plays and watching as much game film as possible... the absolute elites like Joe Montana often just had the ability to see an open receiver 30 yards away and throw the ball with 4 inch accuracy to the point that he would have run to during the ball’s flight.
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Re:Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach by humanrebar on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:45AM (#17845479)
Alternate explanation: Most quarterbacks aren't the best in the world. Statistically speaking, coaches who are former quarterbacks will typically come from this group.
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Re:Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach by swinnipeg on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:55AM (#17845521)
Who are the great quarterbacks that have struggled at coaching?

My best guess is that the spoils of being a great quarterback are so great, and the retirement job offers are so lucrative that they simply don't want to take the steps required to learn to coach.

For example a pretty good QB turned great coach like Jim Harbaugh took a job as an assistant coach Western Kentucky after he retired, and subsequently moved up the coaching ladder. I struggle to see a great QB taking a road like that when they have so many other options.

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Re:Those Who Can Do, Can’t Teach by kthejoker2 on Monday August 27, 2018 @07:25PM (#17855362)
For varying definitions of great ...

All 5 HOF QBs who coached in the NFL have losing records.

Norm van Brocklin, HOF QB who could never coach another HOF QB (Fran Tarkenton)

Bart Starr

Otto Graham

Sammy Baugh

Bob Waterfield

But yeah basically as soon as broadcasting and endorsements became a post foot all career option, all the top QBs went that route.

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