The QB can say what he wants IMO, he is the franchise. In all walks of life including our work life, there is a pecking order, so its best to get in order or you'll get pecked.
The QB can say what he wants IMO, he is the franchise. In all walks of life including our work life, there is a pecking order, so its best to get in order or you'll get pecked.
What language on Google translate am i supposed to be using for these Twitters again...
My head hurts figuring out wtf they are even trying to say most of the time.
Basically they say seeya bye.
Where is this "hierarchy" printed or spelled out? I would like to see how it is organized.
I'm just don't recall Jack Lambert, Mike Singletary, Ray Lewis, Joe Greene, Reggie White, Walter Payton, deferring to their QB, who would be one step below the coach on this hierarchical model that you mention.
It doesn't need to be spelled out, you just have to pay attention to how things go. You could bet your ass if any player fired shots at a HoF caliber QB their ass would be off the team, or at the very least in the doghouse. Rules were different in the 70s when 20+% of your salary cap wasn't your franchise QB
Peter King is depleting that AB has used Twitter as a weapon... against himself. Reportedly, an “unnamed” GM stopped putting together a trade offer after reading AB’s tweets.
The point is that there IS NO formal hierarchy, but rather each locker room is a fluid situation. Guys like Reggie White could call out HOF Brett Favre, or Lambert -Bradshaw, Harry Carson-Phil Simms, etc. It just depends if the individuals can act as men and respect each other despite having differences.
When grown men cant disagree, but still respect each other as men....its called being insecure and childish. IMO, AB and Ben are both insecure children and Tomlin should have stepped in and been the adult to manage the situation.
Most of your examples are from before the money got looney tunes and the cap structure limited how many guys on a roster could get paid.
That's what this is about. AB gets paid less than Ben. Yet he feels he works harder than Ben. Ben makes visible mistakes and seems to not suffer serious consequences to AB. AB feels that he makes less on-field mistakes, but is asked to work harder than Ben.
This stuff may not be real and may be mostly an invention of AB's ego -- but it is real to him and he is a fool if thinks there is any NFL locker room where the 20-30 million dollar a year HOF caliber QB isn't running the show.
Heck, most of Jacksonville's roster thinks Bortles gets special treatment and that guy stinks -- but he is a QB.
Sure, we can spin this as its about money and not respect of teammates and men, but I think that journeymen O linemen, D linemen can interact with Diva WR's and QB's easily by being men and respecting each other.
I have a hard time thinking that Troy Aikman would have said in the media, that Michael Irvin needed to run a better route rather than he did, which ended up in an iNT....or that he should have thrown the football to Alvin Harper 3 times in a row on the goal line, instead of Irvin. I also have a hard time thinking Irvin would sit out the final game of the season the way AB did. Should be about respect and responsibility, rather than rights that guys feel entitled to.
Maybe. Maybe not. I suspect Irvin was too high most of the time to give a crap. But I digress...
My original point that there are zero teams in the 2019 NFL that have a HOF caliber QB on a post rookie deal where if you make the coaching staff, front office, and ownership choose between you and the QB where the QB doesn't get chosen in 0.1 seconds. Why AB doesn't or can't recognize that is hard for me to wrap my head around.
Everything I have ever read about modern pro sports locker rooms says that $$$ determines almost everything. Just like any "culture" there is going to be a hierarchy and I suspect that a journeyman player goes out of their way to limit their interactions with the high $$$ players and even if they don't agree with them, they just smile and say "great".
I understand what you're saying and don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think the point I was trying to make is it's a QB biased league any way you put it, and I don't see it changing any time soon. Franchise QB's eat up the biggest portion of the salary cap, so the team all the way up to the GM is the most invested in that one guy. People want to usually protect their big investments.
It's going to be that way until another position or all-world player proves to be more valuable than the QB. As great as AB is, that's not him. Quarterback is that one position where you can turn a losing team into an instant contender, or a fringe playoff team into a championship squad. If there's a squabble between a franchise level QB and any player, you can always bet that the management will side with the QB. AB is fighting a battle he can't win, and won't win. Sure, Ben was wrong to call out AB running the wrong route, but he's the QB. That's just how it goes.
Yep - it’s a copycat league and by far the most successful franchise since 2001 is perceived as having a great head coach, a HOF QB, and other interchangeable parts
Until another model overtakes the Patriots the way to sustained success is regarded as putting your chips on the QB position with a consequent impact on the salary cap. If that leads to the owner trading the QB’s heir apparent over the objection of the most successful coach in NFL history that is how the current day NFL food chain is set up.
If today’s salary cap NFL tied up so many cap $$ on the franchise QB back in the early 90s doubtful the 49ers could have simply told Joe Montana thanks for the memories but it is Steve Young’s turn now so time to say goodbye
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles problem now