Turning a Franchise Around for Dummies

Welcome to Turning a Franchise Around for Dummies. Like you! Obviously, you wouldn't be reading this if you franchise wasn't in the toilet!  Here are six easy steps to a winning franchise. Before you know it, you'll have a Super Bowl trophy in your living room, the envy of 31 loser teams who were unable to attain it.

How do you turn a franchise around anyway? 

1. Get a great GM.  A GM is someone who hires players, negotiates contracts, signs and re-signs players, and drafts players.  Basically anything to do with how good the team is depends wholly on the General Manager.  How those player perform depends wholly on the coach and his staff.
2. Get a Great coach. A coach and his scheme depends on how talented his players are and how well they can execute the playbook.  The coaches staff also must be experienced and have an idea in how to play a certain position. For example, a quarterback coach must teach the quarterbacks how to throw the ball quickly, have him concentrate on their footwork, teach him not only the physical, but also to teach him the mental capacity of the job.
3. Draft or sign a YOUNG offensive line.  The most under-appreciated position (next to the kickers, punter, and long-snapper) on the team. Without the offensive line, the quarterback wouldn't have enough time to throw the ball, the running-backs would have nowhere to run, the offense would literally would go 3 and out every drive.  I guarantee you the hogs up front are crucial to the offenses success.  The reason why to have a young O-line is the fact that a young O-line will last longer together, say five or 10 years together, that O-line will know the exactly who will do what.  they'll trust each-other, they'll know each others strengths and weaknesses.  and older mismatched line will have a fall out when a guard and a tackle retire, and the chemistry is gone on the Offensive front.
4. Get yourself a great defensive line.  As the football God's say, "The battle is won in the trenches".  A Defensive line that can stop the run as well as pressure or sack the quarterback is a recipe for success.  If a D-linemen can disrupt the passer long enough to throw off his and his receivers timing the linebackers and defensive backs have enough time to either A. intercept the ball or B. stop the pass from becoming completion. Containing the run game and stopping the run consistently forces the offense to become one sided.  Instead of running and passing, they are forced to pass as much as possible, and when you know they are going to pass that enables the d-line to pass rush without the fear of the run.
5. If you win, they will come. DER! Win some games and your franchise will have fans cheering for more.  fans are like bottomless pits, you just cant give em' enough wins. 
6. The most important rule to turning a franchise around. DON'T PANIC! You cannot expect the franchise to win immediately. Yes, you will improve but give it time.  you have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk, and before you know it, you'll hit the ground runnin'. 

Congratulations, you have finished Turning a Franchise Around for Dummies, and I wish you the very luck and remember, DON'T PANIC. 

Checked out by

• Chip Rosenbloom
• Billy Ford
• Mike Brown
• Carl Peterson
• Randolph D. Lerner
• Billy Ford
• Paul G. Allen
• Billy Ford

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