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Oh wow – Its amazing how this team finds new and creative ways to lose games. The optimist in me says I will look back after we finally do get the Lombardi trophy (2028 anybody?) and remember these bitter feelings and gut wrenching Sundays I have endured and it will in fact make the sweet that much sweeter. That’s the theory at least.
But we have much bigger problems on our hands. The quotes that came out of the Arizona locker room are not quite the kind you want to hear out of a football team. I will give them credit for not being the dispirited bunch of losers they have been in years past but the talk coming out of Cardinals stadium gives me the chilly feeling this thing has already blown up. Its not so much the divisive quotes from Green and James – as I expected that from guys leading the charge. But these are a lot more ominous:
"You got to have attitude, and we don't have it," Rolle vented after a 16-14 loss. "We don't have a swagger at all. How bad do you want it? I know I want it bad, but I can't speak for everybody else.
"There's got to be some changes, man. Something really has to be done. . . . It's player changes. It's heart changes. That's what we need. We need some heart transplants, because there's no way we should've (lost) to this team. There's no way."
Darnell Dockett just hopes everyone learns from the loss, but he expressed doubt about that reality. Losing reveals character, the defensive tackle said. "You find out who wants to come back and work."
Asked if he sees those types of men around the locker room, Dockett hesitated.
"No comment," he said. "I can only worry about myself and the guys playing next to me. I can't worry about what the offense has going on. I have to worry about keeping it together right here (on the defensive line.) . . . We've got to get ready to play Atlanta."
Okay – so my first question is who exactly on the offense is Dockett referring too? Fitz? Warner? The entire O-line? Secondly – while I think Rolle played well yesterday, I think its pretty ballsy for him to come out and make those comments. He’s a second year player who was injured last year and has not played all that well. I think some of those comments may get some eye rolls from the vet players.
I have no idea what to think right now. How well Leinart has looked in practice maybe the deciding factor in if he plays the next weeks and nothing galvanizes a team like a young QB coming in an playing up to expectations. I ‘m just not sure this current group can be what we wanted them to be anymore with all this fraction in the locker room.
But we have much bigger problems on our hands. The quotes that came out of the Arizona locker room are not quite the kind you want to hear out of a football team. I will give them credit for not being the dispirited bunch of losers they have been in years past but the talk coming out of Cardinals stadium gives me the chilly feeling this thing has already blown up. Its not so much the divisive quotes from Green and James – as I expected that from guys leading the charge. But these are a lot more ominous:
"You got to have attitude, and we don't have it," Rolle vented after a 16-14 loss. "We don't have a swagger at all. How bad do you want it? I know I want it bad, but I can't speak for everybody else.
"There's got to be some changes, man. Something really has to be done. . . . It's player changes. It's heart changes. That's what we need. We need some heart transplants, because there's no way we should've (lost) to this team. There's no way."
Darnell Dockett just hopes everyone learns from the loss, but he expressed doubt about that reality. Losing reveals character, the defensive tackle said. "You find out who wants to come back and work."
Asked if he sees those types of men around the locker room, Dockett hesitated.
"No comment," he said. "I can only worry about myself and the guys playing next to me. I can't worry about what the offense has going on. I have to worry about keeping it together right here (on the defensive line.) . . . We've got to get ready to play Atlanta."
Okay – so my first question is who exactly on the offense is Dockett referring too? Fitz? Warner? The entire O-line? Secondly – while I think Rolle played well yesterday, I think its pretty ballsy for him to come out and make those comments. He’s a second year player who was injured last year and has not played all that well. I think some of those comments may get some eye rolls from the vet players.
I have no idea what to think right now. How well Leinart has looked in practice maybe the deciding factor in if he plays the next weeks and nothing galvanizes a team like a young QB coming in an playing up to expectations. I ‘m just not sure this current group can be what we wanted them to be anymore with all this fraction in the locker room.
