I've decided I've had enough...until Dennis Green is gone...I'm gone. To some of you this your happy day. To others, well, I bid you fair adieu, until we meet again under far more favorable circumstances...like Green is gone...and a first-rate football coach like Charlie Weis is our head man.
You see...you got sucked into the Dennis Green mystique out of desperation...just as the Bidwills and Rod Graves did. I'd bet the ranch they are rueing the day right now...and so should you.
You see...why do people think that just because it's pro football...that proper decorum and treatment of human beings can be abandoned? That's flat-out a pathetic and egregious excuse...the fact is, our Cardinal players deserve to be treated with the utmost of respect, like any other employees in a business. They don't deserve to be demeaned, belittled and humiliated. After all, they are kids, mostly in their twenties, who have achieved to a level that would allow them to play in the greatest game on earth. They should be nurtured...coached...encouraged...brought along with patience and guidance...not tortured with mind games, superfluous demotions and humiliations.
I resent the treatment these players are receiving. I resent the fact that L.J. Shelton has toiled in the scalding sun here in Arizona for six years and now because he gained a little weight following off-season surgeries, he has been forced to kiss the coaches' arses just to get a decent chance at making the roster or cracking the starting lineup. There was another Dennis Green player that was so worried about the sanctions he'd receive...and the ridicule from coaches and teammates he'd encounter...for coming into camp overweight...his name is Korey Stringer...and he lost his life trying to avoid such sanctions and ridicule. Make all the excuses you want...keep defending Jake, for all I care. If you don't find fault with this, you are in extreme denial.
To L.J. Shelton's unbelievable credit, he has tried to do his job...and has not as yet asked to be traded. L.J....my friend...don't take this crap any more...make DG cut you...you will be as hotly pursued as Pete Kendall was and you will be far happier wherever you go. You deserve that...because you have played your heart out in a microwave for the lowly Cardinals and even stuck with the Cardinals when they hit rock bottom. You were one of the few players who came in here and believed that you could help to turn things around...why else would you have put forth your best season as a pro during a 4-12, horrendous season? You did it because you are a professional...and I laud you for the integrity of all of that. Some cynics will say, you did it because you were in a contract year...but I saw you busting your butt the previous year...and you were always getting better.
To my fellow posters on this board, let's apply the Golden Rule. Do you want to work for a boss who will humiliate you because he thinks that's how to motivate you? Do you want to be sworn and cussed at? Like some sort of scum? Do you want to be singled out when fellow co-workers of yours aren't doing half the job you are doing and thay aren't getting any of the grief you are?
What makes you think that just because it's pro football, that employees can be treated in this fashion? Yeah, like some other poster threw on the board...break out the violins...yeah, that's right...puppy dog...
I feel sorry for many of you...because you are so desperate for the Cardinals to win that you are so willing to jump on some meglomaniac's bandwagon. Let me say one thing to you...that isn't winning...no matter how you shake it...winning is developing a morale...a unison...a communion...a respectful cooperation...and if you think for one minute that Dennis Green, of all people, is capable of doing that...you are sadly mistaken.
I hope all the most talented Cardinals...never play a snap this year...in a sad way, I am glad the team's two toughest players, Marcel Shipp and Anquan Boldin are hurt...and I hope neither one of them has to play a snap this year...because this will be one of the most fruitless, wasted years in franchise history.
The "old school" coaching modus operandi is, thank God, a thing of the past...much like slavery and discrimination.
And you know what...the people you are quick to bash the most...the Bidwills...will take you by surprise...they have enormous pride...and they treat people well...with class...and they won't allow Dennis Green to sabbotage their organization beyond this year. Mark my words...Dennis Green is one and out in Arizona.
Sure, you can just anticipate, Sean Salisbury assuring the ESPN audience after this year's debacle that, "Give Dennis Green time, he will build a winner in Arizona." Well, emit a loud guffaw at that one...because when push came to shove Sean Salisbury spurned joining Green in Arizona to remain in the booth at ESPN. Make all the excuses you want...the bottom line is...even so-called Green disciples can't commit to the guy...because, at the end of the day, he and his egregious ego are not worth committing to.
That's it. I've said enough. To those of you who are glad to see me gone...I'lkl say to myself what you undoubtedly will say to me..."Good riddance." To my friends here at ASFN...thanks for being kind to me...you inspired me...and you make me proud as ever to be a Cardinal fan. In the immortal words of Jim Rome..."I'm out."
You see...you got sucked into the Dennis Green mystique out of desperation...just as the Bidwills and Rod Graves did. I'd bet the ranch they are rueing the day right now...and so should you.
You see...why do people think that just because it's pro football...that proper decorum and treatment of human beings can be abandoned? That's flat-out a pathetic and egregious excuse...the fact is, our Cardinal players deserve to be treated with the utmost of respect, like any other employees in a business. They don't deserve to be demeaned, belittled and humiliated. After all, they are kids, mostly in their twenties, who have achieved to a level that would allow them to play in the greatest game on earth. They should be nurtured...coached...encouraged...brought along with patience and guidance...not tortured with mind games, superfluous demotions and humiliations.
I resent the treatment these players are receiving. I resent the fact that L.J. Shelton has toiled in the scalding sun here in Arizona for six years and now because he gained a little weight following off-season surgeries, he has been forced to kiss the coaches' arses just to get a decent chance at making the roster or cracking the starting lineup. There was another Dennis Green player that was so worried about the sanctions he'd receive...and the ridicule from coaches and teammates he'd encounter...for coming into camp overweight...his name is Korey Stringer...and he lost his life trying to avoid such sanctions and ridicule. Make all the excuses you want...keep defending Jake, for all I care. If you don't find fault with this, you are in extreme denial.
To L.J. Shelton's unbelievable credit, he has tried to do his job...and has not as yet asked to be traded. L.J....my friend...don't take this crap any more...make DG cut you...you will be as hotly pursued as Pete Kendall was and you will be far happier wherever you go. You deserve that...because you have played your heart out in a microwave for the lowly Cardinals and even stuck with the Cardinals when they hit rock bottom. You were one of the few players who came in here and believed that you could help to turn things around...why else would you have put forth your best season as a pro during a 4-12, horrendous season? You did it because you are a professional...and I laud you for the integrity of all of that. Some cynics will say, you did it because you were in a contract year...but I saw you busting your butt the previous year...and you were always getting better.
To my fellow posters on this board, let's apply the Golden Rule. Do you want to work for a boss who will humiliate you because he thinks that's how to motivate you? Do you want to be sworn and cussed at? Like some sort of scum? Do you want to be singled out when fellow co-workers of yours aren't doing half the job you are doing and thay aren't getting any of the grief you are?
What makes you think that just because it's pro football, that employees can be treated in this fashion? Yeah, like some other poster threw on the board...break out the violins...yeah, that's right...puppy dog...
I feel sorry for many of you...because you are so desperate for the Cardinals to win that you are so willing to jump on some meglomaniac's bandwagon. Let me say one thing to you...that isn't winning...no matter how you shake it...winning is developing a morale...a unison...a communion...a respectful cooperation...and if you think for one minute that Dennis Green, of all people, is capable of doing that...you are sadly mistaken.
I hope all the most talented Cardinals...never play a snap this year...in a sad way, I am glad the team's two toughest players, Marcel Shipp and Anquan Boldin are hurt...and I hope neither one of them has to play a snap this year...because this will be one of the most fruitless, wasted years in franchise history.
The "old school" coaching modus operandi is, thank God, a thing of the past...much like slavery and discrimination.
And you know what...the people you are quick to bash the most...the Bidwills...will take you by surprise...they have enormous pride...and they treat people well...with class...and they won't allow Dennis Green to sabbotage their organization beyond this year. Mark my words...Dennis Green is one and out in Arizona.
Sure, you can just anticipate, Sean Salisbury assuring the ESPN audience after this year's debacle that, "Give Dennis Green time, he will build a winner in Arizona." Well, emit a loud guffaw at that one...because when push came to shove Sean Salisbury spurned joining Green in Arizona to remain in the booth at ESPN. Make all the excuses you want...the bottom line is...even so-called Green disciples can't commit to the guy...because, at the end of the day, he and his egregious ego are not worth committing to.
That's it. I've said enough. To those of you who are glad to see me gone...I'lkl say to myself what you undoubtedly will say to me..."Good riddance." To my friends here at ASFN...thanks for being kind to me...you inspired me...and you make me proud as ever to be a Cardinal fan. In the immortal words of Jim Rome..."I'm out."
BOOO!!! 
