My thoughts on the game(s)

[greencrest1272]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I wanted us to win so badly, because of a kid like Counts. He had thrown 3 picks all year and 3 today. His crying was so loud I could hear it echoing. A player like Hull, who was playing with his grandfather dying yesterday, he's one of those super quiet players who just busts his butt and he has been all but prison-style ra-ped this year and never complains. I asked him after last week if he had any jersey left, he just kind of smiled and said ah that happens. I could go on and on but I'm kind of dead right now. </div></div>

I'll say it again, the classiest and most humble bunch that I have every seen. Sad to see them go...

[R0cketer]

I kind of agree. You have the experts (well ok all of us and every person in the stand nearly), who criticize every coaching decision. The lack of a particular player being used, the overuse of another player, not running behind one player, not pulling a player, etc. Through all of the attempts to divide the team, and I know that people don't directly go out of their way with that attempt (or most people at least), I didn't see it with this group. I'll go with the most obvious one. Everybody always wanted Osborne to get more carries (me included, although I think wanted him to get more touches didn't matter in what way the ball was in his hands), and it would have been very easy to have turned that into a jealous kind of issue between he and Robinson, but I never seen it. To me that is what allowed this team to do well, they never seemed to have a case of ego, and I think that starts at the front with Coach Mullins, who really doesn't treat player A differently than player B. Probably not a comment I should make so much but season is over, I will tell you this one. It was just an example to me of how things are run there. I went up Thursday evening to get a schedule of things and find out if anything I needed to do. Coaches were all sitting around, Chris Robinson was standing there kind of waiting for his dad. Here is he, senior, coaches son, probably player of the year, and there was something they wanted to discuss, instead of treating Robinson any different they had him leave the room, and closed the door on him. Even there 2 days before things ended, all the players were treated the same, when one probably most places would have been invited into the room and asked what they wanted to do about things. I just thought that was a prime example of the way Rick runs things.