This morning I was listening to Carl Banks on the NFL channel and he had an interesting perspective regarding TO.
First of all, Carl seems like a guy that should be coaching somewhere. IMO, he clearly knows football and didn’t come across as a talking head like many other former athletes.
Succinctly he stated that fans form opinions without having all of the facts. He says what goes behind closed doors in the NFL are not accurately portrayed through the media.
He posed a ‘what if’ regarding TO’s contract. He said that TO acted as if he was promised something that the iggles front office didn’t deliver on. If they promised to redo his contract and didn’t, they had to know that TO was gonna go ballistic. Also, he said his other stint with the 49er’s proved he was right about what he was saying just not how he was saying it.
Look at Mooch and Garthia. After TO left their careers spiraled; Mooch was exposed as an average coach and Garthia has proven to be nothing but a journeyman QB. Sure his behavior was childish at best but Carl said that he was using the only tools he had at his disposal to get his point across. He said the public / fans only get fed information from the coaches and owner’s perspective. He even confessed to getting in a shoving match with his head coach (not Parcells). He said that is why he loved Parcells because he knew he was dealing with men and just because he is a coach doesn’t make it right for him to crap all over you. Also, he said Reid ain’t no Parcells and he won’t have a problem with TO like Jimmie didn’t have a problem with Haley and he said that Haley was certifiable, lol.
To make a long story short, I touched on this yesterday in a post. Most of the iggle players were more then willing to give TO another chance. The only ones not interested were McFlabb, Coach Eat’em up, and the arsebassador. It is funny how they went from complete jubilee to total disdain for TO. Carl’s take was it was because of promised money. Who knows but FWIW, I tend to agree with this take.
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