The point is Benji has very little experience in coaching an NRL team. I don’t know that he had much input at a coaching level when he played the game.
I watched him during a game, when he was asking his left winger AJ to be more shallow in our attack zone. On his second attempt AJ had still not got the message, so on the third Benji threw the cut out ball to where he wanted his winger it landed 5 metres in front of AJ and he certainly got the message on the 4th, running in for a 4 pointer.
My point is that Benji’s inexperience means he is learning about his own teaching style as much as he is learning about his players’ perceptive ability. This is a heap of learning for a coach who doesn’t want to live, eat, drink, breathe the job.