Trash Talking

[Dallas]

this is football not country club tennis.

That has absolutely nothing to do w/ it. When I played football in HS and scored, I was excited. It never crossed my mind 1 time to jump into the DB's face to talk smack to him about me scoring on him.

My father taught me a lot about being a good sport at a very young age.


Sportsmanship is lost on you, it's obvious. :

 

[Sarge]

If anything, trash talking has been brought to a level where it's meaningless. How many times in the last 5 years have you heard a player say, "we win this game, guaranteed" only to ...of course....lose.

Knock someones helmet off his head with a good hit and shut your mouth I say.

Carry on.

 

[Dallas]

If anything, trash talking has been brought to a level where it's meaningless. How many times in the last 5 years have you heard a player say, "we win this game, guaranteed" only to ...of course....lose.

Knock someones helmet off his head with a good hit and shut your mouth I say.

Carry on.

I don't think I would ever want to mess w/ you Sarge.

 

[Sarge]

I don't think I would ever want to mess w/ you Sarge.

Ah, don't worry about me, worry about Juke - he's the unstable one.

 

[Jay]

Which NFC Championship, we did beat the 49ers in the championship in candlestick park. The year we lost to the 49ers in candlestick, Jimmy Johnson wasnt the head coach, that was 94, remember Jerry Jones and Jimmy had just spllit up after 93.

The head coach can talk sometimes, because like Jimmy Johnson was doing, when he said in 3 inch words we will win, he was trying to take pressure off of the players, loosen them up a little bit. So, in reality he was showing confidence in his players.

The players are the ones that have to produce on the field. Its the coaches job to get the players ready to play with a great game plan. Players play on the field not the coaches.

I'm not saying I didn't like what Jimmy did.. but he said that he'd prefer people to just shut up and play, the "Jimmy Johnson way".. which is just false.

Whether it's your head coach talking trash or guaranteeing victories or the players, I don't see any difference in that.

I have zero problem with trash talking, for the record.

 

[cowboys#1]

That has absolutely nothing to do w/ it. When I played football in HS and scored, I was excited. It never crossed my mind 1 time to jump into the DB's face to talk smack to him about me scoring on him.

My father taught me a lot about being a good sport at a very young age.


Sportsmanship is lost on you, it's obvious. :

im not talking about getting in a guys face after scoring because thats taunting and would draw a flag. but i see nothing wrong with a little talking before a game as long as you have enogh respect to tell the guy "good game" afterward.

 

[Idgit]

I used to talk a ton of smack to the other guy during high school wrestling weigh-ins. At times, you could intimidate the other guy so much that he was beat before he even got on the mat. We've all seen it happen when a WR gets inside a DB's head. There's a lot to be said for that.

The taunting, though, and drawing attention to yourself, and the elevation of your own play on the field without regard to how the rest of your team is playing is just annoying and embarrassing.

 

[Dallas]

im not talking about getting in a guys face after scoring because thats taunting and would draw a flag. but i see nothing wrong with a little talking before a game as long as you have enogh respect to tell the guy "good game" afterward.

I dont' have an issue w/ talking before a game. My whole thing is smack talking all the time DURING the game.


Agree

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Totally agree, I am more of the Jimmy Johnson attitude, keep your mouth shut and play, keep your head in the game at hand. Stay focused. If your mouthing off, you generally get bit back. Remember a year or so ago when Crayton ran his mouth off about playing the Patriots for a rematch in the superbowl.

Jimmy Johnson? You mean the guy who said they were going to beat San Francisco, were going to be in the playoffs? You mean the one who had the biggest trash talker ever in Michael Irvin? That Jimmy Johnson?

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I like Patrick Crayton a lot as a player, but I wish he would shut the hell up about the other team. Focus on what you do rather than what you want to say.

Your assumption is that you cannot do both and that is an incorrect assumption.

Michael Irvin was the biggest trash talker out there and it didn't prevent him from doing his job.

 

[Sarge]

Your assumption is that you cannot do both and that is an incorrect assumption.

Michael Irvin was the biggest trash talker out there and it didn't prevent him from doing his job.

Michael Irvin proved you could do it. Patrick Drayton certainly hasn't.

 

[Clove]

All politicians do is talk trash when they run against each other. So just because one may have been born in a conservative neighborhood doesn't mean they've not talked their fair share of trash.


In sports, it's fun, it takes the intensity to another level, and it pushes you to shut the guy up. It's mostly a mental game, only softies can't handle it and if you're a softy, GTHO of sports.

Lighten up, it's fun and harmless.

 

[BourbonBalz]

The best, and most effective, trash talking that exists is when you leave your opponent beaten, bloodied, and humilated on the field when it's all said and done. That's the type of "trash talkin" I want to SEE and not hear.

 

[RoadRunner]

Does anyone else think football would be better off with more trash talking from the players? I mean it has mass apeal in other sports such as Boxing and MMA. I know we sure did a bunch when we were playing ball in the park. Heck, think about how much is done by the fans.

No, I think it would be bad for the game.

 

[DallasEast]

It's the NFL, not the WWE.

I've been saying the same damn thing for years. :clap2:

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Love smack talking.

Love hearing guys like McNabb, Jacobs, Portis and all the rest of them talking crap, makes things a little more interesting for me.

 

[Avaj]

I'm a big fan of it too. Would love to see more of it.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Trash talking doesn't do anything to help win a freaking game... It's more so of a distraction really.

 

[Tovya]

The question you are asking is the same as, would the NFL be better off without big mouths like Chad still-Johnson-to-me, Brandon Marshall, Terrell Owens, Jeremy Shockey, Adam Jones, and other such players?

Of course it would.

They have all the talent in the world, but teams look for any reason they can to dump their cancers off on other teams.

T.O. has more football talent in his left pinky than a combined dozen other average receivers in the league have in their whole bodies... but we couldn't trade him and had to cut him.

That's the point, if big mouth fools were good for the NFL, teams would be all over them, and obviously, they aren't.

The NFL needs more players like Jason Witten and DeMarcus Ware--the guys who go out every week and let their dominating plays talk for them.

 

[DallasDomination]

Irvin, Jimmy, Jordan, barkley, Larry Bird, kevin mchale, Kobe and Lebron are all trash talkers on the court/field. It's part of the game, no hard feelings or people getting butt hurt about it... throwing a hissy fit.

Rivalries are great because their is hate and trash talking...or else it would just be another game. And it comes with the game, players get pumpe dup in their own way. You think I want Our defense to help Brandon jacobs up after a tackle? HELL NO! And I know you guys dont either, or else that image of ratliff punking eli wouldnt be so great.