How is it negative? Inflammatory maybe but not negative. I suppose putting that statement in there serves to incite all of the people crying over Jerry's meddling AND it definitely has the capacity to go negative from there.
Yep. That's how I (and plenty of others) saw it. An unnecsaasry, antagonistic, inflammatory statement. And look at the rest of the thread. I was 100% right.
I think (hope) he's right though, every other action we've seen out of MM demonstrates he is his own man. Jerry's not going to be able to hamstring MM, like Garret. I also think (hope) he wont feel compelled to do so because he will have a greater level of trust in MM having skins on the wall. When Jerry admitted Garrett was a coach in training we knew it was bad.
It's too bad that the thread is so littered with the negative, wast of time crap, that we really never got the chance to discuss that, isn't it?
And for the record, I totally agree with you. Jerry respects McCarthy's resume and accomplishments, so I expect him to get the same reverential treatment that guys like Jimmy and Bill got from Jerry.