phinsforlife
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Compare and contrast. I do not care how a coach leads, but it has to be effective. There are always lines, and I think we are too far to the easy guardrail. Not only in terms of how we practice, but also how accountability for other things is handled too. This is one of the risks of first time head coaches. You learn from experience. Flores was too far on one guardrail. Perhaps McDaniel is too far in the other direction and it results in a team that is not as well conditioned as it should be and is soft and underachieves. It sure has looked like that coming out of the gate this year, but it is early, so there is time to right the ship. This is where a coach makes his money, when things are hard, not when they are easy. We will see if it gets better or not.
Every NFL player must pass one at the start of training camp in order to practice, and the versions vary by team. This one requires them to complete six 150-yard shuttles, with a time limit on each leg that differs depending on position groups. Not finishing any of the six legs in the designated time means failing the test and having to start it over. "Never want to do it again," Seahawks wide receiver Laviska Shenault Jr. said. "It's deadly." Macdonald chewed out the players individually, according to a team source and a source close to a player, and then brought up the issue in front of the rest of the team in order to drive the point home: You owe it to everyone else to show up in shape. He told at least one of the players that he'd have been cut on the spot if not for the guaranteed money in his contract, another source close to one of them said. "He's just big on accountability, which is really important right now because it's a lot of new players, a new staff, a new way of doing things around here," defensive tackle Leonard Williams said. "I think when you're trying to implement something new, it takes a lot on the players and the leaders on the team to hold everyone accountable. ... I think he's doing a good job."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...-mike-macdonald-became-pete-carroll-successor
Every NFL player must pass one at the start of training camp in order to practice, and the versions vary by team. This one requires them to complete six 150-yard shuttles, with a time limit on each leg that differs depending on position groups. Not finishing any of the six legs in the designated time means failing the test and having to start it over. "Never want to do it again," Seahawks wide receiver Laviska Shenault Jr. said. "It's deadly." Macdonald chewed out the players individually, according to a team source and a source close to a player, and then brought up the issue in front of the rest of the team in order to drive the point home: You owe it to everyone else to show up in shape. He told at least one of the players that he'd have been cut on the spot if not for the guaranteed money in his contract, another source close to one of them said. "He's just big on accountability, which is really important right now because it's a lot of new players, a new staff, a new way of doing things around here," defensive tackle Leonard Williams said. "I think when you're trying to implement something new, it takes a lot on the players and the leaders on the team to hold everyone accountable. ... I think he's doing a good job."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...-mike-macdonald-became-pete-carroll-successor
