You know, most people would say that people being paid as much as pro football players should not need any motivation from their coaches but I think it makes a big difference. When I was in high school playing football, our team had a long history of losing. After my junior year the head coach was fired and one the assistant coaches was given the job. When the assistant got the job he started displaying emotion on the practice field and in the locker room that the previous head coach had never shown. It lit a fire under our team and we had our first winning season in a decade under this new coach. The x's and o's were basically the same and there was no major infusion of talent, just a coach who had us pumped up and ready to play. Jimmy Johnson was very good at this, as displayed in his famous "How bout them Cowboys!" quote. So after saying all of this I think BP has a lot of blame for not having his team fired up!
