Plans are important. You identify a goal, then lay out the steps you believe are required to obtain that goal. You form a strategy, a plan, to succeed. Sometimes that plan works, sometimes it doesn’t. Which is also why you need to be pliable enough to alter that plan when necessary.
Sort of like how an NFL coach might alter his game plan at halftime if he team isn’t doing well, you need to be able to audible to a new strategy when your original plan doesn’t deliver as intended.
Such a failed plan was one the Madman before this season: Draft and stash Jets tight end Chris Herndon.