CouchCoach
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Players only meetings, like the one the Jets had before coming out to play their best game of the season, are not about the coaches being absent, it is all about accountability to each other and taking ownership. It is far more about what they do on that field than what the coaches do during the week or during the games and coaching all too easily becomes the scapegoat for the lack of execution.
The team is banged up and not just the players not able to take the field but Martin and Yosemite are not 100% and may not be all season.
They just saw the only true visible leader sacrificing his body trying to complete plays and I gotta say, the criticism of Dak Prescott should subside this week as I've seldom seen a QB take punishment like that and refuse to fold. The book says hit the QB and he will wilt and we've seen that with Brady, Brees and Rodgers but this QB, our QB, refused to yield and took hits that would have sidelined more fragile QB's. But this is not a Prescott thread, it is a players thread, all of them.
The word is the players like their coaching staff, yep, including him. There's no evidence Garrett has lost the team or that they're quitting on him, they didn't lie down like dogs in NY, they fought but they weren't up to it that day.
Lee was kept partly for his leadership. Witten was brought back partly because of his leadership. The team is wounded, both physically and mentally, and in dire need of leaders to step up and take control and for cryin' out loud, shut than damned Lawrence up as the team spokesman.
The only way for this team to make it as a team is as a team. They do not look like a team, they have to fix that and even the players that can't take the field need to step up and not just stand there on the sidelines trying not to be noticed.
I really liked what Troy Aikman said about character. "Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it". That's what they need to find right now. Forget all of the money talk all off season long, forget the Joneses and their need for attention and forget all of the media "experts" that are playing the "told ya so" cards.
Stop looking at social media and sports programs and look to each other. Those guys are the only ones that are going to stop the skid. A team isn't just the original starters and the Cowboys have been too vulnerable to missing players for too long. There are no stars, only teammates.
I have no idea if a players only meeting would fix this as I am not certain what the problems are but I do not feel it's just injuries to key players, it feels like more than that when I look at that sideline during a game. I am also not sure the Joneses can stay out of this and leave it to the players. But what is there to lose as I do believe this next game is going to be the one that turns it up or turns it out.
The team is banged up and not just the players not able to take the field but Martin and Yosemite are not 100% and may not be all season.
They just saw the only true visible leader sacrificing his body trying to complete plays and I gotta say, the criticism of Dak Prescott should subside this week as I've seldom seen a QB take punishment like that and refuse to fold. The book says hit the QB and he will wilt and we've seen that with Brady, Brees and Rodgers but this QB, our QB, refused to yield and took hits that would have sidelined more fragile QB's. But this is not a Prescott thread, it is a players thread, all of them.
The word is the players like their coaching staff, yep, including him. There's no evidence Garrett has lost the team or that they're quitting on him, they didn't lie down like dogs in NY, they fought but they weren't up to it that day.
Lee was kept partly for his leadership. Witten was brought back partly because of his leadership. The team is wounded, both physically and mentally, and in dire need of leaders to step up and take control and for cryin' out loud, shut than damned Lawrence up as the team spokesman.
The only way for this team to make it as a team is as a team. They do not look like a team, they have to fix that and even the players that can't take the field need to step up and not just stand there on the sidelines trying not to be noticed.
I really liked what Troy Aikman said about character. "Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it". That's what they need to find right now. Forget all of the money talk all off season long, forget the Joneses and their need for attention and forget all of the media "experts" that are playing the "told ya so" cards.
Stop looking at social media and sports programs and look to each other. Those guys are the only ones that are going to stop the skid. A team isn't just the original starters and the Cowboys have been too vulnerable to missing players for too long. There are no stars, only teammates.
I have no idea if a players only meeting would fix this as I am not certain what the problems are but I do not feel it's just injuries to key players, it feels like more than that when I look at that sideline during a game. I am also not sure the Joneses can stay out of this and leave it to the players. But what is there to lose as I do believe this next game is going to be the one that turns it up or turns it out.
