Quote:These verbal attacks at the fans are yet another symptom of the lack of discipline that's so obvious from this team. You can witness it on the field every game, fielding a punt on the one yard line, downing a pass on a " free play " when the defense jumps offsides, losing your cool and getting penalties and game ejections , lining up onsides ( something that is taught day one in peewee football), etc., etc.

Discipline starts with the head coach. How would Tom Coughlin or Bilichick or Lombardi or Bear Bryant react to players behaving like this? Coach Gus reacts with a smile and an encouraging pat on the behind. And therein lies the problem. Players on this team have become cozy knowing that no matter how poorly they perform, how undisciplined they are, the head coach has their back.

I like this story about Belichick from Chad Johnson(video in link) 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000...-eggshells

 

"Let me tell you what scared me as a player. First day, team meeting ... no greeting, no nothing. He puts on the loss to the Jetsin the playoff or something where they went home early. And he puts it on and rips into Tom (Brady). First meeting, no practice, like (in front of) everybody, and he's going on and he's at Tom's head. And I'm like, 'Is this a joke? Are we being Punk'd?' Because from my understanding, as a coach, you don't chastise your quarterback and you definitely don't do it in front of everybody.

<p style="font-family:arial, verdana, helvetica;color:rgb(34,34,33);">And he laid his you-know-what out and I was like, 'Oh my God.' And that set the tone for me. I was walking on eggshells from that point on."

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