Over the years, offensive line coaches were usually amongst the most fiery on the staff.
One reason for that is when you’re coaching some of the biggest guys on the field, you need to keep pushing them because carrying all that weight, sometimes they could get a little sluggish, and their motors amp down, and you don’t want that to happen.
But in a society that perhaps has softened a little in recent years, maybe the firebrand coaching style isn’t as accepted as it used to be.
So some are looking for fiery Jets offensive line coach Keith Carter to perhaps tone it down a little.
“Keith (Carter) is a phenomenal teacher,” said Jets coach Robert Saleh recently. “He truly is and I’ve said it before, sometimes your great message can be lost in tone. He’s gone through a lot of self-development just as we expect our players to develop, we expect coaches to develop too. He’s gone through a development program that I think has really helped him. Excited to see it progress.”
It sounds like the Jets O-Line coach was sent to some kind of sensitivity training.
“Obviously, executing change in a non-stressful environment is kind of easy,” Saleh said. “Once training camp hits, and the season hits, where it becomes high-stress, high-adversity, that’ll be the challenge, but the way he’s been working, he’s been very deliberate with it and his messaging has been the same where he’s teaching great, great technique and great scheme, great fundamentals. The tone has gotten a lot better and he’s been working at it. And I think his players, I think the o-line appreciates it too.”
Usually the big fellas up front need to be pushed hard.
But Maybe Carter can still push them hard with a kindler, gentler style.
We shall see.
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