Cuting a player
PatsWickedPissah
BB: Usually what happens, it's not always the same because the circumstances
aren't always the same, but normally what happens is the player is brought to
someplace where we can sit down and talk to him. He's talked to by people in
the organization. Scott [Pioli] and I talk to them. Then other people, the
position coach, depending on the relationship, but different coaches will talk
to them based on how much of a relationship they have had with them. If it was
a big special teams player or if it was a position coach, depending on where
the guy had come from. We explain to them what is going on, and it varies from
player to player. Some players you release and you kind of tell them, 'We
probably wouldn't bring you back. We just feel like you need to move on or we
need to move on.' Other players you might have interest in bringing back,
depending on the situation. You let them know that. Other players you tell
them, if they want to know what the situation is or what they need to work on,
sometimes they ask about that. Some guys are emotional. Some guys see the
writing on the wall, maybe, and halfway expect it, or might even be relieved by
it to a degree. All those things vary. That would be a normal situation, but
not everything is normal, so they don't all happen that way. Sometimes the
timing is different for one reason or another. I think the main thing is to try
to be honest and up front with a player and tell him not what he wants to hear,
me going in there saying, 'Well, I really wanted to keep you, but Pioli wanted
to get rid of you so that's why we're cutting you.' One of those shots. We're
not big on that. We just try to be honest and up front with the guy and let him
know what really the situation is here, for better or worse, even though that
might not be what they want to hear.
-p
Hobbes
> Q: Who tells a player he has been cut?
Lay off the sauce - there are two t's in "cutting".
BB seems fairly up front. I think that the players should be glad they
tried to work for him, even if they get cut. I am concerned about Dillon
becoming a cancer in the locker room if things go sour for a while.
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Repeat. 19-0. Nuff said.
PatsWickedPissah
>PatsWickedPissah wrote:
>> Q: Who tells a player he has been cut?
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>Lay off the sauce - there are two t's in "cutting".
*** It was no typo; I can't spell despite scoring at those high Hobbseian
levels on my English SATs long before they scaled them.
>BB seems fairly up front. I think that the players should be glad they
>tried to work for him, even if they get cut. I am concerned about Dillon
>becoming a cancer in the locker room if things go sour for a while.
Relax, you've been reading the pittmiester's rants too long.
-p
Davepitt11
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I agree. Everything's hunky dory with Cory now.....
Polarhound
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