Opinion: Bradie James has lost his job to Bobby Carpenter...
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jobberone;1510020 said:
please. get. on top of me. (grandma's boy)
yeah can the original poster elaborate a little?
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I just listened to the James interview and certainly didn't hear anything from him indicating starting job wasn't his. I do think Carpenter is more athletic, better speed & rapidly gaining understanding of how to play that position which should trump Bradie James. Sure wish media could observe all the OTAs and not just 1 a week so we could see what's going on. TC & preseason games can't get here soon enough.
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I didn't know Phillips handed out starting jobs in May.Guess we learn something new every day. 
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This seems like a good time to quote an excerp from a May 24 article in the Star-Telegram
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By MAC ENGEL
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
IRVING -- Not long after linebacker Bradie James signed a contract extension that included an $8 million signing bonus last fall, his head coach offered him the following words of encouragement:
"I wouldn't have paid you that much," Bill Parcells told James.
"Oh, that's just Bill being Bill," James said.
And they both shared the same agent.
But James was one of Parcells' guys. He was a BP Guy.
Now with Parcells "retired," the BP Guys will have to find their place on this team -- assuming there is one -- and create a new level of trust and responsibility with coach Wade Phillips.
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Looks to me like when you give a guy a big signing bonus, you want him to be around for a while. Doesn't that pretty much tell the head coach who is going to start for the next few years? If he's getting paid $8 Mil SB and if he gets beat out by Bobby Carpenter, isn't that a lot to pay a backup? If you trade him, it accererates immediately against the cap. Hmmm.
With Parcells in essence saying TO wasn't his idea, looks to me like Jerry's still insisting on being head scout and talent judge and still pulling some of the key strings and determining who to hire and how much to pay. That's his right as owner and GM but I hope he remembers all those prior times when he was convinced he was right before while leading the team to less than mediocre 5-11records.
I hope Jerry is not falling back into old habits, or if so, I hope he has learned something the last four years. If Bobby Carpenter beats out Brady James, that doesn't bode well unless the size of his SB is indicative of what we're going to be seeing with the increased Salary Caps. Looks like inflation is hitting the NFL big time.
Just things to think about this year.
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By MAC ENGEL
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
IRVING -- Not long after linebacker Bradie James signed a contract extension that included an $8 million signing bonus last fall, his head coach offered him the following words of encouragement:
"I wouldn't have paid you that much," Bill Parcells told James.
"Oh, that's just Bill being Bill," James said.
And they both shared the same agent.
But James was one of Parcells' guys. He was a BP Guy.
Now with Parcells "retired," the BP Guys will have to find their place on this team -- assuming there is one -- and create a new level of trust and responsibility with coach Wade Phillips.
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Looks to me like when you give a guy a big signing bonus, you want him to be around for a while. Doesn't that pretty much tell the head coach who is going to start for the next few years? If he's getting paid $8 Mil SB and if he gets beat out by Bobby Carpenter, isn't that a lot to pay a backup? If you trade him, it accererates immediately against the cap. Hmmm.
With Parcells in essence saying TO wasn't his idea, looks to me like Jerry's still insisting on being head scout and talent judge and still pulling some of the key strings and determining who to hire and how much to pay. That's his right as owner and GM but I hope he remembers all those prior times when he was convinced he was right before while leading the team to less than mediocre 5-11records.
I hope Jerry is not falling back into old habits, or if so, I hope he has learned something the last four years. If Bobby Carpenter beats out Brady James, that doesn't bode well unless the size of his SB is indicative of what we're going to be seeing with the increased Salary Caps. Looks like inflation is hitting the NFL big time.
Just things to think about this year.
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Nothing big in this interview.
James did say something that seemed to suggest that there were more substitutions going on, but other than that ....
Oh, and Spagnola reported on Talkn' Cowboys that James has dropped 15 lbs this offseason - because James thought he needed greater mobility. That seems like a good sign.
James did say something that seemed to suggest that there were more substitutions going on, but other than that ....
Oh, and Spagnola reported on Talkn' Cowboys that James has dropped 15 lbs this offseason - because James thought he needed greater mobility. That seems like a good sign.
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James sucked last year it wouldn't surprise me if he lost his starting role.
As an aside, to those people saying we paid him a lot to stay here, so what.
If the dude isn't getting the job done he should be on the bench. If our coaching staff is playing people because of their contracts and not because of their playing ability we are forked.
As an aside, to those people saying we paid him a lot to stay here, so what.
If the dude isn't getting the job done he should be on the bench. If our coaching staff is playing people because of their contracts and not because of their playing ability we are forked.
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I think Bradie James will bounce back this year in a pretty big way. I think he was a little too heavy last year, that does effect your speed on the field.
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big dog cowboy;1510053 said:I didn't know Phillips handed out starting jobs in May.Guess we learn something new every day.
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Anybody that listened to that interview would know that the things he said where not words of a starter/leader or someone that sounded like they where happy about the way things are going....
If you didnt detect that much by listen to that interview your dumb as a box of rocks...im not sayin day 1...but by game 4 at the max...if ol boy dont get his (you know what together) hes history.....cwalk said it first...watch!!!!
If you didnt detect that much by listen to that interview your dumb as a box of rocks...im not sayin day 1...but by game 4 at the max...if ol boy dont get his (you know what together) hes history.....cwalk said it first...watch!!!!
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Idgit;1510071 said:
He did address those comments on the LBOH show on April 12th.
You can check out the interview on the media player at my site.
http://www.dcfanatic.com/dcfanaticradio.html
Just scroll down to 'Bradie James on LBOH - April 12th' and click the link.
