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Is there any value in coaching familiarity ?


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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”


Sun Tzu, The Art of War


Wonderful words of wisdom and can easily close this question.
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11 hours ago, ArmyBengal said:

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”


Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

So you are saying there is no advantage either way to playing a former employer/employee?

 

If so, then I agree.  Both sides have extra knowledge of the other so it cancels out.

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I think it's situational... Surely we know Hue, but Hue not only knows all of our coaches, but he knows Dalton, Green, etc... He knows intimately what Dalton can and can't do. How he makes his pre-snap read, etc... We don't have the same knowledge of Kizer. Heck, Zampese basically ran Jackson's playbook for a year after he left.

IMHO, Hue has more of a knowledge advantage going up against the Bengals because we haven't had much player or coaching turnover. If Marvin gets fired and packs up 50% of his staff and goes to another team, and we draft a new QB because we were bad enough to fire a coach... Then the advantage is significantly diminished.

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