ckparrothead
Premium Member
"If they do open the competition up, I'm not going to back away from that," Fiedler said Friday before the team's first 2003 minicamp practice.
"I've been competing my whole life. I was a backup for the first half of my career looking to take someone's job away, so I know what the second- and third-string guys are thinking while I have the starting position. I'm not going to slack because I've been handed the starting job."
"We've got a lot of work to do," Fiedler said. "Whoever is going to be the starter needs to get as many reps with the starting unit as possible. But I'm not going to back away from any competition that's going to be there."
Notice the STARK CONTRAST in these sentiments from what Oronde Gadsden started saying last year, when the coaches publicly announced that the spot opposite Chris Chambers was open for competition in training camp between Oronde Gadsden and James McKnight.
OG started bytching and whining, saying stuff like "after all i've done for this team" and stuff and questioning why its HIM thats competing for a job and whatnot, saying he deserves the unquestioned start based on his play over the years.
And our coaches, the pu$$ies that they were, gave into his whining and closed the competition before training camp even began.
And now Gadsden's agent is STILL tryin to talk about all he's done for the dolphins and stuff....as he desperately is trying to get a decent contract for his client in a dried up free agent market that already basically said they don't want Gadsden.
Gadsden's cojones are like pebbles next to boulders compared to Fiedler's