What are we talking about here? The Antonio Brown thing is about whether the Raiders should have fined him for missing practice. The Troy Aikman thing is about whether he would get cut for falling asleep in meetings. Saying you should let those things slide is not the same thing as saying “you need to coddle them,…

With all due respect, you are a ways from “halfway bright” if you think “They should not have fined him for missing some practices” equates to “he should get away with anything!” but here goes.

That’s an odd takeaway. It’s more highlighting how good organizations don’t even let it get to the point where someone like AB might go full tantrum by managing their egos from the get-go, and what specific missteps these orgs make time and time again that throw their diva WRs under the bus.

“How to win football games because you’re an organization that’s in the business of playing football and not parenting people”.

He actually literally does!  In fact, if you’d read it, it is clear what he thinks justifies management drawing a line an saying “We have to consider moving on from this guy.”  

This is actually something I’ve noticed in interviews with veteran players and keep wondering how much it is influenced by my fandom biases. It just seems like Brady keeps being brought up as an example of a great locker room leader, which is probably a huge part of why the Patriots locker room seems to be able to…

It has nothing to do with entitlement, AB is just a different dude. He was always a different dude, but he put up with stuff he perceived as bullshit because as a college player he needed to satisfy his coach to get to the NFL; he needed to satisfy his pro coach to get a good contract. Once he got that contract, once…

No, still wrong, and still apparent you haven’t actually read it, because that is again not really even close to what he is arguing. 

Kyle Van Noy missed last night’s game because his wife was giving birth. While I certainly hope every coach wouldn’t have a problem with the player missing the game for that, BB gave his blessing for it.

James Harrison had a cool interview/bit on ESPN after the SB about his brief time in New England. He made the interesting point that Brady himself doesn’t act like a diva, he treats the practice sqaudders with the same respect he treats the stars, and Brady’s the first one to head out to practice in some shitty…

That is absolutely not what he was arguing. I’d advise you to read the piece, because you clearly didn’t read it if your takeaway was there is “literally nothing you don’t look the other way on.” 

Tongue-in-cheek is going over heads recently. But, your premise is a big school of thought and movement in a lot of male dominated organizations. It’s a great show of societal growth as well. We shouldn’t be shocked when we see a lot more women in these roles and I do believe they will excel (I.e. Becky Hamon, Nancy…

“Oh, nobody’s bigger than the team, and he’s being selfish, he needs to look out for the team.” Fuck that. The team doesn’t look out for you. When the team is ready to move on, or they think you make too much money, or you’re not giving them what they need, they cut you or trade you like that. They’re not loyal to you.

Did you actually read the interview?  Because that is absolutely not how it could be summed up. 

It wasn’t just fining him for missing practice, though that was stupid and led to the blowup last Tuesday or whatever. They had worked all that out! Mayock won the ridiculous manliness contest he was having and got Brown to issue a tearful apology in front of the entire team. He put him in his place, made the guy…

Exactly, which is why I get so frustrated with clueless fans wanting to apply blue-color work ethics to pro sports. This isn’t just apples and oranges, it’s apples and durian. You can’t expect an NFL team to treat a guy who barely missed the cut in training camp the same as a receiver who’s pulling down double-digit…

It was kinda tongue-in-cheek, but I was clearly talking about management/coaching roles and not advocating for women to play this brain-damaging sport. The target of my comment is the big babies with fragile egos that seem to take everything to the extreme. Kinda like you.

So, true. If you bring in lots of money for any company, you’ll get a way longer leash than if you are a mediocre employee. Sometimes assholes stay employed because results matter. It seems like Hollywood revolves around this. So many horrible, entitled people, but at then end of the day, results matter. Matt Lauer,…

“No, it’s bullshit. Treat everybody the same. If you’re not gonna show up for work ...”

Honestly, I’m siding with AB on this. It just seemed like Plantation Mentality with both the Stillers and the Raiders. I think he’ll flourish with New England which, no matter what you think about Belichick et al personally, they seem to run the place like a competent workplace.