BPARCELL'SRULESUBOY said:
Early or late Quincy was cut...what difference does it really make substantially speaking??? The cut affected the teams chemistry.
I have yet to see or hear any team member come out and claim this. One minor comment made to a member here, but certainly no one on the team publicly stated this. I have heard this from "
the Jet's" fans, but have not heard it anywhere close to coming from the team.
Let's play devil's advocate now and assume that it did in fact affect the team's chemistry. Let me ask this in defense of Parcells' and Jones' decisions.
Should it have? I mean let's be serious here, we're talking about rumors of drug use being behind the reasoning. The team rallied around that? If so then we have some serious problems ahead.
Truth be told this "reasoning" doesn't give me much to hang my hopes on if the reason the team fell apart is that they became afraid to jointly hit the bong. Pretty damned bleak if you ask me. If that is true it would make me want to applaud Bill and Jerry more than ever. They need to finish that drug war if this is what it is.
I also have to assume that at least some of the players on the team are not addicts and would feel a sense of relief that the drugs were taken away and would have played harder. Unless of course you believe our entire team is partaking. You getting a sense of how hopeless a picture this philosophy is painting?
That is why I put no stock in it at all. I just don't. I find the very hint at belief in it to be laughable. Again, one player on the team told a member here and called it "karma." Maybe it's just me but I don't believe that Buddhist and Hindu Gods punished this team for cutting a Christian QB.
Now let's push this a little farther in the question of should this have affected the team chemistry. We can even remove the concerns over the drug rumors if you want. Aren't they supposed to be professionals? Since when did it matter if someone else was on the team or not and whether you had to do your job?
You see, the very hint at this being a reason behind their lackluster play just kind of makes my blood boil, drug rumors or not.
I don't want a team full of lace panties cry babies. I want a team of professionals who can shrug off an injury or a waiver and go on. Guys who lace up their boots a little tighter and get the job done. What this philosophy is suggesting is that we have players who need pacifiers. I mean that's what it boils down to if they can't move past a personnel decision and do their jobs.
You guys who embrace and espouse this thinking really worry me. You make me think our entire team is weak minded and has issues with dependency. That kind of cloying neediness doesn't make me envision a football team. It makes me envision emotional support groups in need of group hugs and commiseration over lifelong emotional needs. No thank you very much.
What is even more baffling to me is that the biggest difference between 2003 and 2004 had nothing to do with the offense where "
the Jet" played. 289 points scored in 2003, 293 in 2004. 322.6 yards per game in 2003, 324.8 YPG in 2004. I mean from where I sit that looks like stasis.
On the other hand, let's look at defense where he did
not play. 260 points allowed in 2003, 405 in 2004. 253.5 YPG allowed, #1 in the whole NFL in 2003, 330.3 YPG allowed in 2004.
Maybe you can explain to me why the loss of chemistry is most evident on the side of the ball not played by the "reason" in question? I've been wondering about it for months now. Every time this philosophy shows itself I become more perplexed on how it can be accepted and embraced.
For the longest time I have felt that issues facing this team were lack of personnel. Read the real "reasons" here and I discover it is really a lack of Kleenex. Hey didn't Parcells say that last year Bradie James could barely lift a box of Kleenex? Maybe this thinking is on to something after all. I mean a team full of ultra needy pansies like this would need a lot of Kleenex.
