fleet wrote:It may be somewhat. But I dont believe GMs and coaches agree with you. These are qualities they value at a premium. Great leaders always have that demeanor going for them instinctively. And its not just demeanor. Great leaders inspire with fear, and also fear of disapointing them through the force of their personality and quality of character.
As an aside, I was watching an NFL show the other day that had a guy, maybe it was Boomer, saying that coaches are so high on sideline demeanor they get on their QBs on the sidelines to stand up straight and hold their head up. Which I found interesting it went that far. But searching my memory, I have vague recollections being corrected on this myself in school.
I've seen Manning waive off Dungy and do his own thing on offense and I have seen him being not so friendly on the sideline. I have seen Brady also do similar things. Rodgers took a jab at his coach earlier this year through the media when they started 1-2 AND he has had 3-4 former teammates call him out on his "leadership" in general.
Cutler in fact doesn't hang his head on the side line (one random clip from the camera guy doesn't mean that's all he's doing back there). He blames himself for his mistakes as well. Yes he has had the same clashes with teammates and coaches that the above guys have, but once again the big difference is when those guys are on the field they play smart and have winning results.
Are you willing to say that if the Bears were 8-5 right now and Cutler was a better QB on the field with his mechanics and decision making, that you would be questioning his leadership? Or some random clip of him on the sideline?