Help ... from an objective set of eyes

During the offseason, the Storm coaching staff will step back and re-evaluate the video from all 16 of the team's 2008 games. Then, the group will do something kind of neat; it will have coaches not on the staff do the same thing.

"Sometimes you're so close to it week in and week out that you make excuses for them," Marcum said. "What I like to do is, I like to have some of my buddies come in who don't know (much) about the players in terms of their personality or whatever and give an objective eye."

One of those "buddies" could potentially be Jim Bates, a longtime NFL assistant who worked with Marcum at the University of Florida and in the USFL.