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Are "Quinnisms" and tee-shirts slogans effective or just a hokey gimmick that needs to be dispensed?


"The Brotherhood" "Embrace the Suck" "Win the now" "We are going to get after it in a big way".....Are these "Quinnisms" and slogans helpful or should he simply stick to trying to effectively coach? For most coaches not named Bill Belechick eventually players begin to lose your message and tune you out if the message has little behind it. We have already seen or heard of at least seven different slogans or catchphrases since 2016 printed on tee-shirts or parroted by players themselves. Fine and dandy when your team is winning as in 2016 but not so much when your team is on a rollercoaster and can look abjectly pathetic to the Browns while looking like a juggernaut against the Redskins.

Is the message to the players diluted by Quinn's player-friendly approach or is the jury still out? Most ex-players will tell you, from high school to pros, that they would rather play for a coach that drove them to excellence, one that they may have disliked for his discipline but they won because of it, versus a coach that was their friend and was not mad at their mistakes, taking a buddy-centric approach. What is the measure of this when it relates to Quinn? Most coaches bench a player who continually misses assignments or makes game-killing mistakes but Quinn appears to take a milder, "Let him work through it" approach; albeit a costly one at times (Jordan Richards?).

Are the slogans gimmicky or are they inconsequential? Would it better serve Quinn to simply coach, giving him more credibility (possibly) with the players instead of trying to psychologically motivate them through words and catchphrases?

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