My guess is he truly does.
Whiz cared about us. Whether or not he's entirely to blame for this situation remains to be seen. But....
Who took the lap around UoP after we won the NFC slapping the hands of fans and saying, "Thank you. Thank you." The man has acknowledged what the fans have done repeatedly. (Including this year at Fan Fest.)
At the Fan Fest after the Super Bowl we were standing by the rope line as the players and coaches walked out to the practice field. As Whiz walked by I said, "In Whiz we trust." He stopped, turned around, walked back to me, looked me dead in the eye, smiled, shook my hand and said, "Thank you." I knew he 'got it'.
For better or worse I'll probably always be a Whiz fan. I just like the guy. (I liked him even more when he walked across the field with his head high to shake the hand of the POS named Pete Carroll, lol.)
Whis I've always said had some great qualities but his handling of men is poor, very poor.
His treatment of QB's is terrible, just awful, you can be demanding you can do a lot of things if you don't demean people, he demeans people and I have no respect for that behavior.
It's not demeaning if you're consistent but he's not, to be as demanding as he is then you've got to be more in your face, you have to constantly build someone up too, it's not all or nothing, he lacks motivational skills and that's a lethal hole in the game of a HC.
He's way way way too tilted towards being demanding with almost ZERO good jobs or atta boys he's the quintesential father figure, you are never good enough.
Big Ben and Warner both had ego's the size of TEXAS and nothing was going to dent theirs but anyone else he pretty much destroys.
Negativity does not motivate, John Wooden was never negative, you can even cut someone in a positive manner if you do it right, but to motivate and lead means to bring out the best in people, Whis seems to bring out the worst in QB's except the ones that are rock solid secure with themeselves to start with.
It'd be great if he had any talent at spotting those, he does not.
His comment can you play?
That's not class.
To play QB is so hard, you can't be destroying someone's ego and then be surprised when they get worse and worse, that's the tell, the regression of all the players playing under him, it's IMO the negativity that starts to accumulate, if you're told you're stupid and worthless enough you start to ACT stupid and worthless.
