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[gardenman]

I'm glad for Tua. It's a good opportunity for him. 

[Spurt]

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@redwingsgal wrote:

One BIG problem I see with Haskins' attitude is that he is a $uckeye!  They are taught no respect there!  OSU thinks they are God's gift to the NCAA.

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@redwingsgal 

At the draft Haskins was sporting a bit of a "tude" (attitude).Personally I like humble, hard working guys...

Haskins buckled down when he first got to the team facility---did what he was supposed to---studied, trained, and watched film---probably because he heard Rivera's expectations for the players....but that quickly subsided and he no longer put in the work....and failed "the test" the coaches inserted in the game....  Even Haskin's friend and Buckeye alumni , WR McLaurin said nothing is giving to you, you gotta earn it....SO TRUE!

[Spurt]

@gardenman @teganslaw 

Oh there's trouble in Frisco, TX:

Unamed Cowboy players are now venting to the NFL Network reporter, Jane Slater. 

 “Cowboys players initially bought into keeping things internal. Now as they sit 2-4 the discontent is leaking out. On the coaching staff ‘totally unprepared. They don’t teach. They don’t have any sense of adjusting on the fly.’ Another ‘they just aren’t good at their jobs.'” Without knowing which players are saying these things, it’s hard to know whether to give these opinions any credence. And while the anonymous leaking of fact makes the media world go ’round, anonymous leaking of opinion can become a stickier wicket.

Given the way the team is playing, it’s clear that something is wrong. Either the players aren’t good enough or the coaches aren’t doing a good enough job with them.

In most teams, that dynamic would set up a potential battle between coach and G.M. to make their case to the owner as to who bears the blame for a bad team. In Dallas, the G.M. is the owner. Which actually makes it useful for ownership to have anonymous players blaming the coaching, since that will tend to take attention away from the idea that ownership has not done a good enough job finding capable players.

[gardenman]

@Spurt 

Yeah, the Cowboys coaching staff was going to be on a very short leash with the players. Randall Cobb was a former Packer before becoming a Cowboy (now a Texan) and he would have been asked a lot about Mike McCarthy and I'm guessing he wasn't wildly complimentary. Mike Nolan the Cowboys defensive coordinator seldom lasts more than two years at any job.

When a team gets a new coach, the players start chatting up other players who have played under the guy. If they don't like what they hear, things go south in a hurry. They likely heard little positive abour McCarthy or Nolan. When things start to go south, the players can blame the coaches and things get very messy, very quickly. A whole lot of football gets played between the ears, and the players need to buy in. That's hard for players to do if everything they hear about their new coaches is negative.

[sunshine45]

NFL is still staying on top of the weekly ratings ......

week of  october 5th, top 20.....

#1 SNF vikings/seahawks 15.1

#2 TNF buccaneers/bears 14.7

#3 MNF patriots/chiefs 14.5

(other sports in the top twenty....nba finals and saturday night college football miami/clemson.)