(09-25-2019, 03:32 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I just don't read Ramsey as treating this as a business decision, he's acting like it's personal. That makes for bad business.
He wants his money. If he can't have that, he wants to make sure that he doesn't get hurt while waiting for it. The "paternity leave" could mean one of two things: either the team wants to give Ramsey some room to cool down, or they're trying to save face after being told by Ramsey that they can call him as soon as they've got a trade figured out. Either way, it comes back to Ramsey wanting his money and not wanting to tear an ACL while he waits for someone to give it to him. The fact that he's got a child due sometime between now and November of 2024 is a convenient coincidence.
(09-25-2019, 08:09 PM)I am Yoda Wrote: (09-25-2019, 06:16 PM)Eric1 Wrote: And that's the issue... "Former coach".. Coughlin isn't the HC here, or any other type of coach here. Hes a front office guy now. That means he has no business acting like a coach and disrespecting a player/chewing him out in the locker room. He needs to keep his [BLEEP] upstairs in his office and let the coaches do what they're suppose to do.
It doesn't matter who's side you're on here, the fact of the matter is that's not Coughlin's job, or role on this team and he shouldn't be acting like it is.
This is asinine. This isn't the way business works. The boss's role is whatever the boss determines it to be, your malignance towards Coughlin notwithstanding. Every time I see someone write this it proves to me they've never been in charge of anything of consequence.
When I was but a wee lad in a mid-management position, I royally screwed something up. Like, royally, to the tune of a $10,000 credit that didn't exist being applied to our account. Very long story involving lots of bad advice and me thinking I'd reinvented the wheel. My boss caught it and wanted to know what the hell was up. I got started unwinding the thread so it would be fixed the next month. The next morning, in the morning staff meeting that I was leading, the regional manager walked in and said he needed to speak to me. He worked out of our office, so his being there wasn't a surprise, and I had a pretty good hunch what this was about and had already started the wheels moving to fix it. But nope, as soon as the door to his office closed, he went off like a gigantic F bomb. He verbally tore me to a new [BLEEP], then went back to open up several more of them every time I thought he was done. Believe me, the
whole office could hear. When he got tired of listening to himself shout and me explain how I'd already fixed the goddamned thing, he stormed off to a meeting somewhere else. I honestly didn't care after the initial "what the frack?!" wore off. I'd already fixed it and, more importantly, I still had a job. The rest of the office, on the other hand, would talk to me directly and to each other about how uncalled for that was, how it should have been left to my boss and I to sort it out, how unprofessional it was for the regional manager to interrupt my staff meeting so he could lay into me.
Point being, does Coughlin have a right to come into the locker room and blow up on Ramsey? Sure. Ramsey does technically work for him, even though there are two levels of separation in between them. Is it good form when the corporate bigwig walks in and blasts someone several levels below him rather than taking it down the chain of command in the same way you'd expect it to go up? No. Does it piss people off and create a distraction? Yes. Does it make people want to continue working there? Oh hell no. Especially not if they're already (in NFL and in real life terms) underpaid.
