Chemistry Problems on the Team (Players don't like each other)

[RON_IN_OC]

Lack of leadership. Surprising seeing as this is a veteran laden team.

Aren't they in the top 3 for age? If you think about it, when players get old, sometimes they just hit a wall very quickly...and can't recover.

 

[overseascardfan]

The free lancing issue came right from BB and the DC.

They also said the same thing about Collins and that was the reason they dealt him to CLE. Maybe BB doesn't want to seem like a prick or make it seem as though NE is unwilling to pay big salaries so they create buzz that these guys aren't playing within the system. Obviously there wasn't a problem with Jones or Collins last year. That could explain why they pretty much gutted the secondary last year after winning the SB. No matter how big a market an NFL team is in, the hard salary cap is a great equalizer. No team can have too May expensive contracts at one time. That's why MLB needs to do the same thing, handing out $200M - $300M contracts has become common place, leaving small market teams to toil in a losing tradition. In theory, high draft picks are suppose to keep small market teams competitive but if your front office couldn't draft well to save their lives then there's no hope....D'backs.

 

[cardpa]

They also said the same thing about Collins and that was the reason they dealt him to CLE. Maybe BB doesn't want to seem like a prick or make it seem as though NE is unwilling to pay big salaries so they create buzz that these guys aren't playing within the system. Obviously there wasn't a problem with Jones or Collins last year. That could explain why they pretty much gutted the secondary last year after winning the SB. No matter how big a market an NFL team is in, the hard salary cap is a great equalizer. No team can have too May expensive contracts at one time. That's why MLB needs to do the same thing, handing out $200M - $300M contracts has become common place, leaving small market teams to toil in a losing tradition. In theory, high draft picks are suppose to keep small market teams competitive but if your front office couldn't draft well to save their lives then there's no hope....D'backs.

You may very well be right about NE, but one thing you have to give props to NE for is they get something for these guys before they walk out the door. How often do you see NE with 9-10-11 picks in the draft? It seems they have that many every year. It also gives them the ability to move around in the draft.

 

[Cardiac]

I think it was huge to lose guys like Cory Redding, Red Bryant, and Dwight Freeney.

We saw on All or Nothing how big their presence was In the locker room. Redding's cookies in the locker room, etc. Those are the types of little things that make a team into a family.

I'm not saying that a lack of cookies are causing this team to lose, but a litany of poor decisions starting back in training camp have lead to the team's disfuntion. Keeping Olson Pierre, a guy who will never see the field, over one of your top locker room / leadership veterans? Just terrible mismanagement of a football team from the get go. Keim has made a lot of mistakes this year between longsnapper, punter, losing Marqui Christian over a bonheaded decision to keep a crappy injured punter on the roster, cutting too many veterans. Etc. Couple that with poor game management from the coaching and its a disaster. The whole team is just "off".

But don't we have a bunch of leaders on the D anyways. Maybe Pat P, HB, CC aren't enough or as good as the cookie maker?

Locker room chemistry is a tricky beast and the ones we let leave may have had a big impact but was it really something that could have been foreseen?

 

[cardpa]

But don't we have a bunch of leaders on the D anyways. Maybe Pat P, HB, CC aren't enough or as good as the cookie maker?

Locker room chemistry is a tricky beast and the ones we let leave may have had a big impact but was it really something that could have been foreseen?

I suspect that BA was hoping other players would step up and take a leadership role and apparently that has not happened. They took a gamble and lost.