http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports...ker-karlos-dansby-who-is-playing-1968253.html
Not sure why their wasn't a plan for millionares to abide by a structured training program set up for the players...You don't have to have personal contact with them, but we could of set up a plan for an outside source to take over keeping our team in shape..
Huge problem in this business,and I for one would not stand for it if I was an owner, wouldn't want them on my team if they didn't understand that the salary that I pay them means its a full time job..If I was a Gm I wouldn't sign anyone who wasn't educated on their nutrition and offseason training, nor if I was a coach would a player who didn't have the discipline to understand that you improve your game in the offseason would I play..
For me its come to the point where if your too stupid to not know how to train and eat properly so you can mamimize your natural talent's when the games begin, then your too stupid and lazy to play for me.
Freakin defensive players out of breath against the Pats, suckin wind and couldn't compete from a cardiac perspective...What a joke..don't they know they haven't accomplished jack sh^5 for this team or this town..
From what has transpired thru the first 7 games of the season, to connecting some dots, they ought to be ashamed.
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The criticism could be applied to many teams. The Steelers looked awful defensively for the first few weeks.
These guys worked out, but the intensity was nowhere near what it should have been. Add in the fact that they were being locked out by the owners, which I don't think helped motivate the players. You certainly would prefer to have a team full of guys that are more self-motivated, but keep in mind that 99% of the people here would take Dez Bryant over Jared Odrick.unluckyluciano and Steve-Mo like this. -
This is the main reason for us having such a terrible waste of a year we faded in the 2nd half 7 straight weeks due to our team not being in football shape.
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And you're right, Stringer. Nomdoubt the intensity was lessened and the fact they were locked out by the owners had a psychological effect. -
If I recall, the Pats were not out of shape, and the disparity of conditioning between our teams was made clearly evident in the season opener. Key to their game plan, it was clearly exploited, and culpable in a lopsided crushing, that ultimately propelled this team, and much of its shellshocked audience, on a wayward heading for last place.
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This almost belongs in PoFo, but here it is. When the union bargains for cutting down on offseason conditioning, it degrades the product that the fans pay to see. This is an example of how the union movement is wrecking American industry as a competitive force. Those who are willing to work harder than others win the championships, in sports and in all lines of work. For the money the teams pay these players, the teams should be entitled to force the players to be and stay in football shape year-round, like it or not. Relying on the players to discipline themselves is bad business, and when these guys are making a minimum salary of $375,000 a year, the ability to impose discipline is not too much for the team to ask. This team should hire Shula as Special Coach for Discipline.
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The unions fault?Players show up out of shape and it's the unions fault?Sorry I can't blame them.
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If other teams can do it, then why can't we?
I'd agree this is a silly argument if every team was having these issues, but it's not every team. The majority of teams were ready to play football, lockout or not. This team was not. That's facts.
It's pretty clear to me that the lockout isn't the only thing at fault here. It only served to make more apparent an existing problem.djphinfan likes this. -
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I don't know about enforcement etc, but I do know if I were being paid $375,000 or more per year to play a game, I'd be in shape every minute of every day 7/365 and I would be making sure I was getting STRONGER and in BETTER shape every day.
Look at superstars like Jerry rice, not the fastest or biggest, but the BEST receiver to ever play the game, so far. Why? He was fanatical about working on his conditioning and his game shape as well as study, 24/7/365. -
What I'am saying is a complete restructuring of the way things are done, the body is looked at like part of the equation..Contracts are adjusted or enhanced, and it comes down to a science..Meeting performance and weight goals would be a very big deal in a contract. -
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Check it out, this man is running around talking like he's the best in the game, when there is no way in hell he can honestly say that he was at his best for the first quarter of the football season..Why do you think he's admitting it now, he's doing it because he wants us to know why he played like sh%$....Well, I'am sorry, that little gesture of negligence is not so little when your talking about the big business of winning football games. -
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Not training your body like a science as a professional athlete is a gross display of negligence, disrespect, and stupidity..
I will tell you this, and I'am being 100 percent honest..When we signed Dansby, my one worry about him was his body, like I do with every player that we sign, I studied it, and my conclusions were that he didn't train his body hard and was getting by on pure natural talent and genetics...This admission of his justifies that evaluation...
He's gonna be 30 years old, a multi millionare athlete, his *** better start taking his body and being cognisant of his nutrition...Unbelievable the response about dressings on salads, are you freaking kidding me Karlos.. -
''Were gonna go no huddle, up tempo, and wear teams out when we start the season, make sure we keep in shape cause when camp starts, were going all out...'' -
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Lets try to understand the magnitude of how this topic can affect a franchise, people, their jobs, the pockets of our owners, wins and losses.... Because of Karlos letting himself go and not being up to par, he set the example which probably caused a domino affect, which then resulted in below par performance, which resulted in losses.. -
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The man admitted basically why he started the season playing like sh^%, doesn't that bother you? It affects performance on the field, coming in out of shape..
We root for this team hard, and we support their livlihood...Its the least they can do..
I don't know about Ivan drago, but every player would know exactly what was expected of them from a strength and conditioning aspect, and if they don't, there should be consequences..
If I'am an owner, coach, gm, the bonuses for weight training in the offseason would be more than any other team, because I know what that committment can do for the athletes game..
Train the damn body year round, and when your getting older, it only becomes more important.
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No **** they were out of shape, anyone remember Cam Wake sucking wind like there was no tomorrow week 1?
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Or one can think "Well I have already been paid, why work much harder?". -
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One thing to remember is the first week of football broke the record for the most passing yards in a weekend and after the first six games there were around six quarterbacks on pace to break or even shatter Marino's record.
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