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Over the past several weeks, the strength and condition of the Oakland Raiders ' coaching staff has seemingly improved.
Ironically, the man in charge of the team's actual strength and conditioning, Jeff Fish, is one of the few staff members who has survived Lane Kiffin's offseason overhaul thus far.
Perhaps Kiffin is just now fully grasping what an NFL strength and conditioning coach actually does. Effectively, this is the only explanation as to why Fish remains an active member of Oakland's staff.
Plain and simple, Fish is the guy in charge of making Robert Gallery stronger.
The same Robert Gallery who allowed 10½ sacks in 10 starts last season.
The 38-year-old assistant, in fact, joined the Raiders in 2004, which happened to be Gallery's rookie year. Since then, Fish has assumed the full responsibility of performing the necessary tasks of an average NFL S&C coach.
Unfortunately, very few actually know what those tasks are.
In Oakland, it's nearly impossible to tell.
On the whole, strength and conditioning coaches carry out physical tests on their players and develop agendas to improve their flexibility, speed, quickness and power.
As it turns out, the Raider offensive line seemingly lacked all four of those qualities in 2006. The front five yielded an astonishing 72 sacks last season, totaling a loss greater than the length of three and a half football fields. The Super Bowl-winning Indianapolis Colts , in comparison, allowed just 15 sacks all season for a loss of 89 yards. In Week 1 alone, Oakland let in nine sacks for 54 yards.
Certainly, much of the unit's overall failure in '06 can be attributed to several other factors outside of Fish. Former head coach Art Shell ordered questionable position shifts up front; ex-coordinator Tom Walsh concocted the nine-step drop; inexperienced quarterback Andrew Walter lacked poise and mobility; and key injuries to Barry Sims and Adam Treu marred growth.
Fish, though -- for the most part -- has gotten off scot-free.
Strength and conditioning coaches, unlike most assistants, work with an entire team and not just one specific position. Because of this generalized responsibility, it is often hard to pinpoint weaknesses that stem directly from the man in charge. It is often the success or failure of the team's linemen, though, that best reflects a strength and conditioning coach's true work.
For Fish -- who is one of the few remaining carryovers from the previous staff -- that's not a particularly encouraging sign.
S&C coaches work to improve the all-around fitness and health of an entire team, but they typically spend extensive time working on developing strength where it's needed most. Primarily, that means making the big men up front even bigger.
For example, in 2001, a comprehensive study put out by The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research revealed that the average days per week spent on in-season strength workouts was 2.8. Typically, these workouts lasted close to just under 50 minutes, generally ranging anywhere from 35 minutes to just over an hour.
Exactly how Fish coordinates his day-to-day activities is an unknown; however, one has to wonder why linemen such as Gallery and Langston Walker have repeatedly struggled with much smaller, weaker opponents.
Actually, just smaller.
If the Raiders actually were stronger up front, this would be a non-issue.
I have'nt figured out that quoting articles shit yet..
Never thought about this before..
I know Shell, Eatman, and Slater are alot to blame, as is Walsh, but this does kinda make sense. Our guys did get pushed around A LOT. Grove seemed to get runover every game. Gallery and Walker got pushed around alot too.
Thoughts?
Over the past several weeks, the strength and condition of the Oakland Raiders ' coaching staff has seemingly improved.
Ironically, the man in charge of the team's actual strength and conditioning, Jeff Fish, is one of the few staff members who has survived Lane Kiffin's offseason overhaul thus far.
Perhaps Kiffin is just now fully grasping what an NFL strength and conditioning coach actually does. Effectively, this is the only explanation as to why Fish remains an active member of Oakland's staff.
Plain and simple, Fish is the guy in charge of making Robert Gallery stronger.
The same Robert Gallery who allowed 10½ sacks in 10 starts last season.
The 38-year-old assistant, in fact, joined the Raiders in 2004, which happened to be Gallery's rookie year. Since then, Fish has assumed the full responsibility of performing the necessary tasks of an average NFL S&C coach.
Unfortunately, very few actually know what those tasks are.
In Oakland, it's nearly impossible to tell.
On the whole, strength and conditioning coaches carry out physical tests on their players and develop agendas to improve their flexibility, speed, quickness and power.
As it turns out, the Raider offensive line seemingly lacked all four of those qualities in 2006. The front five yielded an astonishing 72 sacks last season, totaling a loss greater than the length of three and a half football fields. The Super Bowl-winning Indianapolis Colts , in comparison, allowed just 15 sacks all season for a loss of 89 yards. In Week 1 alone, Oakland let in nine sacks for 54 yards.
Certainly, much of the unit's overall failure in '06 can be attributed to several other factors outside of Fish. Former head coach Art Shell ordered questionable position shifts up front; ex-coordinator Tom Walsh concocted the nine-step drop; inexperienced quarterback Andrew Walter lacked poise and mobility; and key injuries to Barry Sims and Adam Treu marred growth.
Fish, though -- for the most part -- has gotten off scot-free.
Strength and conditioning coaches, unlike most assistants, work with an entire team and not just one specific position. Because of this generalized responsibility, it is often hard to pinpoint weaknesses that stem directly from the man in charge. It is often the success or failure of the team's linemen, though, that best reflects a strength and conditioning coach's true work.
For Fish -- who is one of the few remaining carryovers from the previous staff -- that's not a particularly encouraging sign.
S&C coaches work to improve the all-around fitness and health of an entire team, but they typically spend extensive time working on developing strength where it's needed most. Primarily, that means making the big men up front even bigger.
For example, in 2001, a comprehensive study put out by The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research revealed that the average days per week spent on in-season strength workouts was 2.8. Typically, these workouts lasted close to just under 50 minutes, generally ranging anywhere from 35 minutes to just over an hour.
Exactly how Fish coordinates his day-to-day activities is an unknown; however, one has to wonder why linemen such as Gallery and Langston Walker have repeatedly struggled with much smaller, weaker opponents.
Actually, just smaller.
If the Raiders actually were stronger up front, this would be a non-issue.
I have'nt figured out that quoting articles shit yet..
Never thought about this before..
I know Shell, Eatman, and Slater are alot to blame, as is Walsh, but this does kinda make sense. Our guys did get pushed around A LOT. Grove seemed to get runover every game. Gallery and Walker got pushed around alot too.
Thoughts?
