Toxic lockerroom players speak

[Wes Mantooth]

(11-24-2020, 03:30 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Well, for a defense that "sources" say hates Lou, they sure seem to me to be playing hard for him. They may not be great, but outside of Dunlap I have seen no lack of effort. Players always appear to me to be getting after it as opposed to years past where it seemed they were more going through the motions.

Players are playing for jobs, and future contracts.  It's incredibly rare to see players openly give poor effort in games.

"Playing hard" indicates playing harder than average, does it not?  Otherwise it would just be called "playing".

Are you seeing effort from the Bengals defense that is greater than the norm around the league?  Cuz it looks like to me, they're just playing football like every other team.

I think when someone says "At least we're playing hard" it really means "I'm looking for reasons to use cliches to feel better about this team."