Ex-Bengals RT on the Ravens Locker room athmosphere...

[wileedog]

So, what does that say about the other players who existed in the locker room in his prior engagements?

They divide, that's the point.

Half of Philly's locker room to this day still support him (the one's that were there.). Half of them wanted to kick him in the teeth, and indeed he got in a brawl with Hugh Douglass and challenged the rest of the locker two days before he was suspended by the Eagels.

That's the point. Its not that 52 other guys blindly folllowTO like some pied piper into footbal disaster. Its that some of the weaker ones do, and others who can't stand his schtick (Witten?) pull away from him and divide the room.

You're either with TO or you're against him.

Now if you already have a Ray Lewis and other vocal leaders in place, some of the younger, more impressionable guys don't take the TO option. When he starts badnmouthing the coaches or the QB, there is another set of strong personalities in place to counteract it.

Philly didn't have that in McNabb, who a lot of the players already resented because they thought he got special treatment from management. TO just feuled that fire.

 

[SultanOfSix]

The point is that Ozzie was willing to do so b/c he knew he had an enforcer in the locker room.

You simply don't know that.

And again. You are projecting 2008 myths on 2003 - he was a huge problem in SF - the 49'ers could have taken another route where they franchised him and would receive far far more than a 4th round pick in a trade. Instead, they made it clear that they didn't want him. They wanted him to leave and were willing to do so without compensation.

Frankly, that one of the best WRs of his generation would end up traded for so very little speaks volumes

I never denied the fact that he stirred up trouble in SF. Randy Moss only garnered a 4th round trade, and I don't see him getting the label of a team wrecker. Divisions occur in a locker room when teams aren't winning and the organization is weak. It's just the way it is.

 

[SultanOfSix]

LOL @ Sultan getting pwned in this thread. Classic.

LOL at troll boy bbgun proxying in and responding to himself.