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Originally Posted by PGM
You are really telling me that guys like Hali, Houston, DJ, Berry, and Flowers "quit"?? Damn, imagine how good they'd be if they tried. Oh yeah another ****stick Bowe hater....or is it the same ****stick Bowe hater  |
They didn't quit. That implies that they didn't care.
Did they play with confidence? Absolutely not, and often looked completely defeated. Did they play smart? No. And they made a ton of stupid penalties which is usually the sign of lousy coaching. Did they play focused? No, players were freelancing and getting away with it. Did they play tough? No, they played soft and we know that because we've seen these same guys hit people in the mouth before.
And coaching is a symptom of that. A coach who stands on the sidelines like a statue isn't going to motivate or energize a team. A coach who doesn't care about conditioning or in well coordinated drills is going to get a sloppy team. A coach that lets mistakes fly, is going to coach players who make mistakes. And that's what happened last year. It was a perfect storm of horrible coaching crippling otherwise decent players.