09-18-2018, 04:31 PM
(09-18-2018, 12:24 PM)grampahol Wrote: Something that seems to be missing in the Mike Brown discussion is that he won't let players dictate how they go about running the team. I'm never going to defend how they run things, but I do think that as a team owner he should never be forced to let players, no matter how good they might be as players dictate personnel decisions and day to day operations.
If any player wants to try to take over those decisions they'll quickly find themselves on the outside looking in. We don't know exactly what may have been said or not said ,but to think that the QB should be given the power to override coaching and ownership decisions is silly.
The fact of the matter is that neither Palmer nor Boomer were ever team owners, but both tried to impose their will on the ownership.
I'm not a fan of ownership of any team, but the bottom line is that the players don't have the power to override those kinds of things .
If any of us owned any team I seriously doubt any of us would be willing to let any player impose their desires when it's really just a business in place to make money first and winning is always going to be secondary to profits.
It's a QB dominant league. QBs get all the credit and all the blame in the media and from the fans.
Imagine if your business had 1 guy that was the entire business to the outside world. What if "Randy" was not only the face of your business but ran 50% of the business operations. And you paid Randy millions of dollars. Oh and you as an owner do nothing crucial to the success of the business. Your workers do everything. And again, Randy is the face of the business.
You wouldn't listen to Randy? Really? That makes no sense. Mike Brown is not above anyone, and in fact he is as poor of an owner as these players are with their money. Don't they make rookies take financial classes (I think I remember a Hard Knocks where Chad Johnson mentioned this). Mike Brown should take a few lessons... Hell even the Kardashians would elevate Brown.
