Fallout of a Regime Change

[Stewy]

(10-26-2021, 12:42 AM)Whatever Wrote: There are parallels, but huge differences.  When a typical person goes through a regime change at work, a lot of the stress comes from losing their jobs and not being able to feed their families.  The guys we had issues with here had all been making set for life type money for years.

My personal feeling was that the core group had become complacent.  Marvin had been the HC too long and had essentially just kept promoting from within and sticking with the same systems Gruden and Zimmer ran.  Zac and his staff asked them to do different things and a lot of the old guard rebelled.  Marvin himself said that the players got Teryl Austin fired.  Many of them likely felt that by acting out they could get Zac fired.

At the end of the day, they are still professional athletes and they have a responsibility to try their best as long as the checks keep clearing.  I feel a lot of the guys did.  Some didn't, Dunlap and AJ chiefly among them.  They were still great players for the Bengals, but my opinion of them will forever be colored by their poor conduct at the end.  

I was specifically referencing the ones left behind.  Obviously job loss, would top the list of stressors, but that isn't what I was talking about.  It was about the those left behind.

And yes I agree, that those here became complacent, which pretty much agrees with what I was saying, so I don't understand this feeling of disagreement your giving me here.