09-15-2015, 06:30 AM
I've seen enough football over my life to conclude soft teams can in fact become tougher and tough teams can in fact become soft. Tough teams can become soft with the same coaching leadership that once made them tough. Soft teams can become tougher in a coaching transition. What I have never seen a tough team become soft, then tougher under a given head coach.  I doubt individual players become softer, because football is a brutally competitive endeavor, but teams as a whole absolutely can.Â