Mincey: Tension grew in Cowboys locker room with Greg Hardy

[DallasEast]

Nice seeing a name connected with published quotes. It's the beginning of good journalism.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I will also add...I think there were reports out of Carolina that said he had a problem with being late to meetings. I could be wrong on that, I do recall his teammates liked him but I also seem to recall that he was late to meetings with that team.

 

[iceberg]

Can't wait for another long thread of people defending Hardy. Gonna be legendary.

Mincey may suck but he's not the first or the last that has said or hinted that Hardy just didn't seem to fit here. It's bizarre how some here can't come to grips with the reality that this could be the case and that the NFL isn't like Madden 2016.

can't wait for another thread of people attacking hardy. gonna be just like the last 50...

 

[iceberg]

Nice seeing a name connected with published quotes. It's the beginning of good journalism.

like a lot of things, good journalism dies, or at least has been put away, with the start of the internet.

 

[4lifecowboy]

Mincey.

Coaches normally take the positive road when dealing with players and talking to reporters unless it is a player that they feel would benefit from being called out in the media. I doubt the coaches feel like Hardy is the type that would
benefit from the coaches talking about him in a negative manner. Mincey is probably just being asked questions and being honest.

So...If Rod is sugar coating it, If Red is sugar coating it...but Mincey is talking like that...I believe Mincey.

This is not a case of a former player that we let go so they are disgruntled and trying to start something.

Yeah he is as good as gone. And Hardy's presence is probably the second biggest factor to that fact. First being he is average at his best.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Did anybody see A Football Life with Charles Haley?

It wasn't like he was beloved by everybody in the Cowboys locker room.

The difference is that we had a coach that didn't have a problem dealing with somebody like that because he was the an integral part of the defense. Now we have a coach who can't be bothered to do his job and actually motivate a troubling player and keep peace in the locker room. He's too busy clapping and talking about 'accountability' while he shows ZERO accountability for him and his staff.






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[BrAinPaiNt]

Yeah he is as good as gone. And Hardy's presence is probably the second biggest factor to that fact. First being he is average at his best.

People seem to think all of this stuff does not really mean squat and it is all just people trying to belittle Hardy?

I don't get it.

The guy has been called to the HC office multiple times for acting like a fool on Twitter. We have had multiple different reports about him being late to meetings and people argued that it was just "anonymous sources so it don't count" but now we get an actual name to it and it still does not count?

Poor Hardy...everybody is picking no him lol.

 

[khiladi]

Should they move on from Hardy or Mincey, considering it's Mincey that is trying to air 'dirty laundry'... Talk about a guy claiming to be about the team and not a cancer...

 

[Kaiser]

Did anybody see A Football Life with Charles Haley?

It wasn't like he was beloved by everybody in the Cowboys locker room.

That was my reaction. When Josh Hamilton won the MVP his team went to the World Series. No one every accused him of being a leader (or ever will). But fans were perfectly happy with his production. If Hardy comes back on a one year deal and puts up 12 sacks, no one will remember all this offseason chatter.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

""Yeah, it definitely grew," Mincey said. "I hate it happening. You're talking about a team that was so close knit and tight and then all of the sudden, it's just different."

This was my fear of adding a player like Hardy. You mess with chemistry and you hurt your team. That being said, I wonder who were the guys with the problem? Because Lawrence played rather well next to him.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Seems like this article is forcing a context that isn't there, i.e. that Greg Hardy was the source of the tension.

None of that follows from the statements. He says he grew accustomed to a misunderstood person and that he wouldn't say that he wore out his welcome, meaning he didn't. Then the next statement that follows is: "It was tough. You had this guy who you want to be a leader and then you had that guy. It was just too much."

I don't even know what this means as far as the headline of the article. You want Hardy to be a leader but you have a misunderstood person so you can't have him be the leader? This seems to imply that he wasn't understood by others in the locker room so it was hard for him to be the leader.

Nothing he says implies Hardy was a source of tension.

 

[The Natural]

Probably the most interesting part of the story

"It will be me or him," Mincey said. "You'll have either or. It's hard to have two type of line mentality guys in one room, so it's tough to figure out who the younger guys are going to follow. Of course they're going to look up to a guy who is a prolific player, but I just understand the game and I know what it takes to win it."

On one hand Hardy is the more talented player. Mincey I think is a real leader. I've said it before but he put the battery in this defense' back and was the voice and engine behind that performance in Seattle last year. He's a valuable player to have on the team (not saying that Hardy isn't).

 

[4lifecowboy]

No one seems to take in consideration that this is just a strong willed cat that we dealing with. If in his heart he knows he is not the person the media portrays him to be. And he has a coach that is telling him to eat it, just maybe that is the root of his frustration. To my recollection everything was going good until the pictures were released (mind you that validated his story vs hers).

Personally i can't use this year as a barometer to guage a) who he really is and b) what is the full impact of what he can bring to this team.

 

[mattjames2010]

That's fine, time to see what Gregory has as a starter next season.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Nice seeing a name connected with published quotes. It's the beginning of good journalism.

Usually players aren't dumb enough to allow a journalist to print their name with a quote especially when about a fellow player. But Mincey either feels like he's retiring or he's not coming back to the Cowboys.

 

[Supercowboy1986]

Didn't anybody tell mincey what happens to snitches?

 

[gmoney112]

Not really cool for Mincey calling him out like that in the media.

 

[jterrell]

Hardy may or may not be a decent locker room guy.
Carolina apparently loved him.

But when you win 4 games I could care less about some locker room hero. Everyone should be irate and hateful at 4-12.

Its kinda odd how many of the same people who hate Garrett hate Hardy. Which approach do you want? Stay the course, follow the process or flip some tables, blow up and blow off steam?

 

[Sydla]

Should they move on from Hardy or Mincey, considering it's Mincey that is trying to air 'dirty laundry'... Talk about a guy claiming to be about the team and not a cancer...

Then dump both but I suspect Mincey is probably better liked by his teammates than Hardy.

 

[jterrell]

Mincey.

Coaches normally take the positive road when dealing with players and talking to reporters unless it is a player that they feel would benefit from being called out in the media. I doubt the coaches feel like Hardy is the type that would
benefit from the coaches talking about him in a negative manner. Mincey is probably just being asked questions and being honest.

So...If Rod is sugar coating it, If Red is sugar coating it...but Mincey is talking like that...I believe Mincey.

This is not a case of a former player that we let go so they are disgruntled and trying to start something.

I see that both ways.
1. Hardy took his job and he will enter free agency again at a very low value, unlike last season might have been. Mincey has zero reaosn to really support anything or anyone here as he won't be back and he knows it. He doesn't even want to be back here.
2. Mincey has zero reason to lie and seems quite open and honest.