The Players

[Phoenix1172]

I read an article about the Raven's Kyle Van Noy. I found it interesting he was griping they let a 42 year old Rodgers "wax us twice".

He also stated, “It was Aaron Rodgers basically saying, ‘F you’ to Arthur Smith, ‘I’m calling my own offense,’ and it ended up working. They ended up winning, so they were the better team.”

I find it interesting that a vet from a divisional rival that played on the field is saying what most of us suspected anyway. When Rodgers had to follow the Tomlin/Smith playbook, the offense sucked. When Rodgers went hurry up and was calling his own plays, the offense actually looked like an NFL offense.

 

[Ye Black Knight]

Of course the players liked Tomlin, it was like a country club for a lot of them. At the expense of success on the field, but easy street off of it.

 

[Phoenix1172]

Exactly, look at it for what it is.

Players are losing a friend / coach / easy practice life / ect., of course they are butt-hurt, but they will be reminded by the next coach that they were PAID to play and that includes disciplined practices too !!!!




Salute the nation

If the players liked Tomlin so much, then they should have shown up more on the field when it counted to support him there.The couch should not have to be solely responsible for getting every player fired up to play in big games. These guys are all professionals.

The fact that some of the biggest games are also some of the worst individual performances from players on the team speaks to a culture problem on the team.The team has developed a culture of slightly above average being acceptable with little repurcussion to underachieving (at least for many of the vets).

The team needs a coach that can get the entitled millionaires to want to ball out more consitently when it matters (and when it doesn't in the offseason) and to buy into a new culture of being better than average.