Quote:That final paragraph from the article is sickening. He's rationalizing the Gus Bradley coaching paradigm.


Winning isn't as important as the process? Wrong. Winning validates the process. If you are losing, you change the process.


Gus Bradley's coaching philosophy is great for the "yes men" on the team. As long as the players buy into this winning isn't important, just trust the process paradigm, then there is no accountability.


The grind? You mean the grind every freaking player on every freaking team goes through? You're going to complain about your grind as though you and this team are special? Every team grinds you fool!!!!


I'm sorry, but this mentality is a virus in the locker room. The belief that winning isn't important is contagious and it needs to be eradicated from the team. Unfortunately, this disease is being forced on this team by the head coach.


It doesn't matter how many great players are being drafted, or brought in via fee agency, if they are being indoctrinated to believe the process the coaches are putting them through is more important than winning, you create losers.


We have a coach who is creating losers. The sooner he's fired, the better. He is now literally doing more harm than good.

 

The attitude behind the whole thing is what bothers me, too.  It sums up Gus and what he's preached and it's awful.  The process isn't working.  It's a total loser mentality and it shows on the field week after week.  

 

Quote:It is definitely a weird dynamic. One thing I wonder is if guys like TJ Yeldon, Rashad Greene and Michael Bennett feel that coming from college programs where losing even one game in a year is considered unacceptable.

 

It makes me wonder too.  It's two different worlds for them.  I wonder how much they buy into this "process" that's gotten very few wins in almost 2.5 seasons.

 


 


 

Quote:I don't think he was calling out "the fans."  He was calling out certain fans- the ones who want to see everyone fired right now.  

 

Heaven forbid people want to get rid of them.  They've done so well.  Very few are calling for "everyone" to get fired.  I'd say there are only a handful at most that want to clean house completely.  Most have finally come to light that Gus and crew aren't getting the job done and the "process" that Marcedes talks about is no good.

 

Quote:I think his point is that no player is bigger than the team.  You can't have guys going off rogue doing what THEY think they need to do to achieve wins.  It's a team effort. 

 

Strange comment?  Maybe.  It depends on the framing of the question to be honest.  I think he's more or less asking fans to let the process play out this year.  The players trust the process will turn the team around.  We'll see at the end of the year whether that trust was warranted or not.

 

Lol we'll see at the end of the year...

 

Trust the process that has gotten us nowhere in 2.5 years.

 

Gus is the ultimate salesman.  He gets people to buy into complete garbage.

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