(04-22-2019, 08:16 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(04-20-2019, 11:33 PM)nate Wrote: I just heard it earlier today.  This is a non issue.  That speech was probably written months ago. and as you listen to it, it is simply talking about team and unity in general, and not directed at anyone at all.

Not sure if I completely buy this.

Victor Cruz, who played under TC with the Giants, said his tone was a flashback to the butt chewing he gave to the team when he was mad.

This is how Oesher characterized it...

Quote:Marrone said he and retired NFL tight end Marcus Pollard, the team’s director of player development, both had the wrong number for Ramsey and didn’t realize it until after Coughlin ripped Ramsey and linebacker Telvin Smith for their absences. Marrone also said Ramsey had been in contact with his position coach, Tim Walton.

(Emphasis added)

I am talking I listened to it myself, so how Oesher characterizes things to me, after his colleagues reported on it for their own story means little to me.  

Also, this wasn't directed at the team, and so no team directed tone/scolding should be inferred, as in it should not be in terms of a scolding, because that is not what the speech was to begin with.  It was more of a teams come together and suffer together, and the whole team should be there.  I wonder if Cruz listened to it....

Seriously overblown.

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