Quote:Imagine you are Cecil Shorts and Henne is playing meh. In practice, Bortles is playing slightly better than meh. That would be 'the minute Bortles is playing better', would it not?


Has he then lost control of the locker room? Or been really smart?

 

If 'meh' has been losing football games, then I imagine yeah, he is going to be a little bit annoyed.

 

Losing the locker room is an extreme, but if you persist putting an inferior player out there, especially when that player is a QB and the careers of just about every other player on the team is closely linked to that guy, players won't be happy about it.

 

That doesn't mean you just bow to them either, but I don't think many people not named Coughlin think alienating 95% of the locker room is a great idea.

 

I'm sure many of us have worked in places where there are people who do not contribute as much as they should, it sucks and drives moral rock bottom. Obviously these are extremes, but nobody can argue that seeing an inferior player leading the team out is going to upset people.

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