I love the new Mentality...

[Phinsfan210]

Im sure this has been said many times but Im just going to say it anyway. I love the new mentality we are seeing at this years training camp. Joey Porter said in an interview that last year he didnt feel like everyone was giving 110 percent like they are this year. And this makes me think...

If your a player, your going to give 110 percent because Parcells is a no nonsense guy and not only will and/or Sparano get in your face but you will lose playing time and you could even be cut. That kind of mentality is what you need on a football team, and it wasnt here last year. Cameron never yelled and ran a light training camp.

Its finally nice to feel good about the people controlling this team.

 

[finboss]

210, I couldn't agree more. It is great to feel like this team is finally in good hands and that the guys in charge are real football guys who know how to put a team to gether. I am very impressed with Sparano so far. He seems to be a no-nonsense old-school guy who will tell it like it is. I don't expect us to win much this year but I would rather struggle for a year and know that we are really building this team the right way. :thumbup:

 

[feelthepain]

Im sure this has been said many times but Im just going to say it anyway. I love the new mentality we are seeing at this years training camp. Joey Porter said in an interview that last year he didnt feel like everyone was giving 110 percent like they are this year. And this makes me think...

If your a player, your going to give 110 percent because Parcells is a no nonsense guy and not only will and/or Sparano get in your face but you will lose playing time and you could even be cut. That kind of mentality is what you need on a football team, and it wasnt here last year. Cameron never yelled and ran a light training camp.

Its finally nice to feel good about the people controlling this team.

Yeah, I have to agree. I think the mentality is every bit as important as good coaching and talent. I think we have all three of these, we just need to have some luck too.

 

[phinfan2003]

Im sure this has been said many times but Im just going to say it anyway. I love the new mentality we are seeing at this years training camp. Joey Porter said in an interview that last year he didnt feel like everyone was giving 110 percent like they are this year. And this makes me think...

If your a player, your going to give 110 percent because Parcells is a no nonsense guy and not only will and/or Sparano get in your face but you will lose playing time and you could even be cut. That kind of mentality is what you need on a football team, and it wasnt here last year. Cameron never yelled and ran a light training camp.

Its finally nice to feel good about the people controlling this team.

I know I'm going to sound like a buzzkill but please don't forget that people made similar comments about Nick Saban. Remember when he made Manny Wright cry and people lauded him for making the players give their all and be more accountable (then they trashed the previous regime for being too soft, etc.). I hope and believe that things will turn around for us sooner rather than later but I guess what I try and do is keep things in perspective. Bottom line, if you need someone to make you accountable and give your best, you shouldn't be playing in the NFL.

 

[Phanatical]

I think the new coaching staff is making HUGE mistakes:

I haven't heard about any dominoes games, group lounge areas, movie nights, mouse traps, or motivational speakers. They clearly don't know what they are doing, they talk about things like "tough players" and coming to camp in shape, what buffoons.

LMAO

 

[Kiick72]

I think the new coaching staff is making HUGE mistakes:

I haven't heard about any dominoes games, group lounge areas, movie nights, mouse traps, or motivational speakers. They clearly don't know what they are doing, they talk about things like "tough players" and coming to camp in shape, what buffoons.

LMAO

Clearly something is wrong! I haven't heard anything about anyone "Failing Forward Fast". Better bring on some of those motivational speakers in a hurry!

 

[Phinsfan210]

I know I'm going to sound like a buzzkill but please don't forget that people made similar comments about Nick Saban. Remember when he made Manny Wright cry and people lauded him for making the players give their all and be more accountable (then they trashed the previous regime for being too soft, etc.). I hope and believe that things will turn around for us sooner rather than later but I guess what I try and do is keep things in perspective. Bottom line, if you need someone to make you accountable and give your best, you shouldn't be playing in the NFL.

Hold on there buddy. Nick Saban was a good coach and he had the right philosophy on how to build our team. His heart just wasnt in it anymore.

 

[phinfan2003]

Hold on there buddy. Nick Saban was a good coach and he had the right philosophy on how to build our team. His heart just wasnt in it anymore.

His heart just wasn't into what? Coaching? Telling the truth? Do tell. The guy just never belonged in the NFL as a HC. He was given a huge contract and the keys to the kingdom and when he realized he couldn't get the job done at this level and that many of his moves weren't working out like he expected them to, he left to try to save his reputation. He was a good coach.....in college. Not at this level. Like Lawyer Malloy accurately put it in describing Bobby Petrino when he went down a similar path as Saban "This is a league for men" but Saban was suited to work with boys

 

[Canadianfishfan]

I like the new mentality too.. i would like though to hear a little more credit to Coach Sporano. i for one look at this guy like a blue collar guy. No BS. All this talk about Parcells. It's nice that he deflects the attention from the 'foot soldiers', but I am liking how Sporano talks to the media, i like his terminology, and i believe he would be aguy who would garner respect. especially from proud vets like Porter and Holiday.

Im sure Parcells has his hands in the recipe, but I still like to think that Sporano is still adding the spice.

 

[Kendra_Chelsea]

Hold on there buddy. Nick Saban was a good coach and he had the right philosophy on how to build our team. His heart just wasnt in it anymore.

the problem wasnt in his heart. He just realized one day that he was over his head.

 

[Bad Lieutenant]

the problem wasnt in his heart. He just realized one day that he was over his head.

I disagree. I think Saban was scared of his wife, and I think SHE is the one that made him go back to college. Saban is a good coach, and he would have brought us to the promised land. But he was a weasel, frightened by his wife.

If he woulda stayed, we woulda won eventually.

 

[JayMang]

2006 was his first losing season as a head coach, and I wonder if the fact. He may not have had the wiring to deal with that. No coach worth his salt likes to lose, natch, but Alabama threw him a $40M lifeboat giving him the keys to the kingdom and he took it.

Of course, Bama's repayment will come in a few years when he has them back in the top 10, only to hear his name linked to every NFL and major college job rumor alive.

 

[cullenbigcstill]

Saban's toughness took us to 9-7 that first year with a career backup as the starting QB! Saban just made bad decisions in the 2nd offseason and he bolted, like it was stated before, his wife didn't like the lifestyle in Beautiiful Miami, and she wobviously wears the balls, and took her country bumpkin butt and weannie husband back to the backwoods of the dirty south!

 

[cullenbigcstill]

Saban is a tough football coach, but does seem to not have that same toughness with the wifey

 

[Vertical Limit]

I don't know about the wife thing really; I only hear about it here in finheaven. But I do know he is a damn good coach. Just isn't loyal.