Quote:I don't think anyone here is saying that he should have been in a good mood during the press conference.  I think what people are saying is that he should have sat there for a solid 3 minutes and answered the questions to the media.  Why didn't he go after the fumble?  How does he feel?  Etc....the one word answers came off as sulking.  Something an 8 year old does after a loss, not a grown man.  If you are willing to dab on 'em, do the superman thing, and be happy all year during the good times you also have to be willing to accept defeat with a tad bit of humility.  That wasn't shown last night.

 

I think he will learn a ton from this.  I think he will look back on how he handled himself and do better in the future.  He's still a young guy.  Ron Rivera stood at the podium and you would have thought he lost a regular season game in the middle of the season.  He's a good guy to have around to show Cam the ropes.

What did you want him to do, don ash and sackcloth? Walk outside the stadium with a sandwich board for a day declaring his penance?  Hara kiri, perhaps?

 

I guarantee if you watched your lifetime dreams get obliterated despite your every effort to avoid that outcome, you would not be particularly talkative in the immediate aftermath, even if you are normally gregarious.

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