Those are fair points...but I don't think 1 guy alone ruins a locker room. Brandon has issues...this is well known. I think you need to make sure your locker room is in order before you bring him aboard. I think we can all agree ours wasn't when he was here, and I can tell you with all certainty the Jets isn't. As I said...Richardson should keep his mouth shut until he can learn to show up to team/position meetings and practice on time.
You really don't think our locker room was in order with Trestman at the helm?
Those are fair points...but I don't think 1 guy alone ruins a locker room. Brandon has issues...this is well known. I think you need to make sure your locker room is in order before you bring him aboard. I think we can all agree ours wasn't when he was here, and I can tell you with all certainty the Jets isn't. As I said...Richardson should keep his mouth shut until he can learn to show up to team/position meetings and practice on time.
You really don't think our locker room was in order with Trestman at the helm?
Oh yeah, they were ordering out all the time. Pizza, Chicago Dogs, Al's Eye-talian Beef (wet), it was just one big old Kumbiya Party. LOL
As far as Brandon Marshall goes when you put him on your team you have to accept the two people he is. Brandon Marshall the NFL WR and Brandon Marshall the person with a BPD. The BPD rarely if ever has any impact on the field but off the field and in the locker room it's a different story. That's where his demons lie and his battles are fought.
As far as Brandon Marshall goes when you put him on your team you have to accept the two people he is. Brandon Marshall the NFL WR and Brandon Marshall the person with a BPD. The BPD rarely if ever has any impact on the field but off the field and in the locker room it's a different story. That's where his demons lie and his battles are fought.
+1 When a team signs BM they should know exactly what they are getting. You describe him perfectly. The guy is one heck of a competitor and he has a lot of talent. He does get a little crazy sometimes, but he seems like a decent sort of guy. There are coaches who can handle having some characters on the team, and other coaches don't seem to want to deal with them. Belichick seems pretty gifted at managing people with issues and his teams have benefited as a result.
As far as Brandon Marshall goes when you put him on your team you have to accept the two people he is. Brandon Marshall the NFL WR and Brandon Marshall the person with a BPD. The BPD rarely if ever has any impact on the field but off the field and in the locker room it's a different story. That's where his demons lie and his battles are fought.
+1 When a team signs BM they should know exactly what they are getting. You describe him perfectly. The guy is one heck of a competitor and he has a lot of talent. He does get a little crazy sometimes, but he seems like a decent sort of guy. There are coaches who can handle having some characters on the team, and other coaches don't seem to want to deal with them. Belichick seems pretty gifted at managing people with issues and his teams have benefited as a result.
My problem with the Marshall has less to do with his affect on the lockerroom than with the chain of events it set in order. His trade led directly to the Bears using a pick on a WR in the first round. On a team that had holes all over the DEF, losing Marshall meant that another hole was created, and as a result the first round pick of White.
As far as Brandon Marshall goes when you put him on your team you have to accept the two people he is. Brandon Marshall the NFL WR and Brandon Marshall the person with a BPD. The BPD rarely if ever has any impact on the field but off the field and in the locker room it's a different story. That's where his demons lie and his battles are fought.
+1 When a team signs BM they should know exactly what they are getting. You describe him perfectly. The guy is one heck of a competitor and he has a lot of talent. He does get a little crazy sometimes, but he seems like a decent sort of guy. There are coaches who can handle having some characters on the team, and other coaches don't seem to want to deal with them. Belichick seems pretty gifted at managing people with issues and his teams have benefited as a result.
Exactly. He really isn't a monster of some sort or even Jay wouldn't have backed bringing him to the Bears. This BPD thing is almost like dealing with a person who has split personality because elements of it are similar.
Like I said I have in intense personal experience with it in my past but it's too personal and still too painful to discuss here. A person with a BPD is very difficult to deal with at times under the best of circumstances.
+1 When a team signs BM they should know exactly what they are getting. You describe him perfectly. The guy is one heck of a competitor and he has a lot of talent. He does get a little crazy sometimes, but he seems like a decent sort of guy. There are coaches who can handle having some characters on the team, and other coaches don't seem to want to deal with them. Belichick seems pretty gifted at managing people with issues and his teams have benefited as a result.
My problem with the Marshall has less to do with his affect on the lockerroom than with the chain of events it set in order. His trade led directly to the Bears using a pick on a WR in the first round. On a team that had holes all over the DEF, losing Marshall meant that another hole was created, and as a result the first round pick of White.
I think there's been more than a little of that going on as we swept away some of the better moves of the Emery regime. Bennett falls under that too.
To understand it BB I think we have to go back to how the McCaskeys want things to work around there and they do not like chaos or outspoken players or coaches. Both are a quick ticket out of town.
Emery created a ruckus during his regime so he had to go too and in his place we hired a rookie GM who won't challenge that way of doing things and risk his job and we have a HC whose as dynamic as warmed over Cream of Wheat but he doesn't create problems either. He sends them away in the name of changing the "culture".
Apparently they all prefer a losing one and would prefer that we get used to that too because I don't see where anyone is doing anything to change it.
