EVEN NFL LEGEND JOE NAMATH UNDERSTANDS BAD COACHING TRANSLATES TO BAD PLAY

I've been beating the "bad manager" drum for months.  Aaron Boone's time is up.  Brian Cashman's days need to be numbered.  Too many things are going on for them not to be sent packing.  Now guys can sit there and tell me that "players gotta play" and that's why the Yankees suck, and I believe that to be true to a certain extent.  But good coaching, a solid front office are all connected to that as well.  Aaron Boone should not be managing the New York Yankees.  Poor personnel moves, lousy motivator... blah blah blah. 

Read HEY BOONE, ARGUING BALLS & STRIKES JUST MAKES YOU ANNOYING! for more on that.  My point is the right coaching can honestly turn a team around.  And I'm not the only one who believes that.  Football Icon Joe Namath thinks so too.  In speaking about Zach Wilson and the Jets, he too believes that bad coaching is leading to a poor performance by the player himself.

The New York Post writes:

"The NFL legend questioned Gang Green’s coaching staff as third-year quarterback Zach Wilson struggled through a tough first half against the New England Patriots during Sunday’s 15-10 loss.

“I’m starting to wonder if Zach’s playing like he’s being coached,” Namath said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “He’s making choices that are not intuitive to the quarterback position.”

In other words, the player, Wilson may be doing what he's being told to do and not doing what he's supposed to be doing.  Perhaps made decisions, bad plays, bad leadership is to blame for Wilson's bad play.  Maybe too much information is scrambling his own confidence when he hits to field. The same could be said about sitting a hot player for a rest when they shouldn't sit during a hot streak.  Or overdoing it with bad phrasing and bad opinions on approach like Boone does best.  The point is, maybe the guys just have to play. They know they're bodies... they know what needs to be done. They need to have their confidence take over without some unqualified guy telling them how to do it.

Believe me, don't believe me, I don't care.  What I do know is Aaron Judge is just as fed up with the way this team played and was handled this year and said as much and I love it!

Judge said this after the Yankees chances were revealed after yesterday's loss:

"We’ve got a lot of work to do, a lot of internal talks, a lot of stuff we’ve got to get figured out.”

Let's hope Judge is speaking our language... a huge revamp top to bottom.  We need it.  This year was awful.

All and all, I'm sticking to my guns.  Good leadership wins championships. Why? Because it starts at the top.  I will always believe it... but let's see if Hal sees it this way too.  One can dream.