09-19-2017, 03:21 PM
(09-19-2017, 03:10 PM)McC Wrote: I see in MB a guy who grew up in or right after the Depression, where people found out it could all go away. The response to that was to become penny pinchers and always live(d) with that fear that anything could go away, no matter how good times are. It's not greed as much as fear.
I'm not saying his jillions could ever go away. Just that he has the fear mechanism.
So, when it comes to money spent in FA, he has a list of bad signings. So he mistrusts the process, even though it was bad decisions on who to sign and not a faulty system.
So, he listens to the coaches and gets bad advice in a pretty long list of instances. Maybe he doesn't know what the hell to do.
PA, do we need to do something about the line? No Boss, I got this.
Like Goering promising Hitler he'd take out Britain from the air.
So then you add the near manic insistence on loyalty. He never forgets his father being fired. All that stuff.
Add in a helluva large ego, you're smarter than everybody...and stubbornness like few other.
Do I think he's lying when he says he wants to win a title? No.
Do I think he's devoted every fiber of his being to it and been willing to do whatever it takes to do it? Hell no.
The bottom line is this way is not doing it. Way past time to try another way. It ain't 1958 any more.
And quite frankly...when we do win a single playoff game...after 26+ years of trying is it a big achievement? Most teams int he league have won 4+ since we last won one. The Patriots have won something like 28 playoff games since then. The Steelers have won around 20.
We've won 5 in our entire franchise history. ENTIRE. FRANCHISE. 50 YEAR HISTORY. 5 playoff wins.
