RedEyE
11-11-2008, 07:21 AM
I'm not sure if this will work for the Browns or not. Depending on the type of leader Jamal Lewis is in the locker room, this could make or break a season for Cleveland. However, I admire his passion and his heart. He's telling his teammates and his coaches exactly how it is, and they might just respond.
This is something that we haven't heard happening in the Bills locker room and quite frankly that scares me as it tells me they are fine with mediocrity and complacentcy. I don't mean calling each other out but the anger and passion to motivate one another.
Where is the passion from this team? Someone needs to get angry and motivate others to get angry too. Stroud? Evans? Poz? Lynch is the team's 'class clown' - not happening.
Unless Whitner plans on debunking his prediction, he had better speak up - injury or no injury.
Here's the article:
JAMAL LEWIS: BROWNS NEED TO CHECK EGOS, FIND HEARTS (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/)
Posted by Michael David Smith on November 8, 2008, 5:20 p.m. EST
The Cleveland Browns have lost two straight games that they were in position to win in the fourth quarter, and running back (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/#) Jamal Lewis says he hasn’t been impressed with his teammates in those two games.
“Some people need to check their egos at the door and find some heart (http://news-herald.com/articles/2008/11/08/sports/nh91408.txt) to come out here and play hard,” Lewis said, per the News-Herald. “This is a man’s game. The way we went out and played two weeks in a row, finishing the same kind of way, it’s just not there. Some men around here need to check themselves. Straight up. That’s it.”
But while Lewis declined to name which teammates he was referring to, he wasn’t done when he said “That’s it.”
“It looked to me like some people called it quits when we were up,” Lewis continued. “You can’t do that. You have to finish. Denver’s back was to the wall just like ours is to the wall. But they came out and played good football (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/#). They were down. They kept their heads up, stayed poised and finished.
“This is as frustrated as I’ve been in however many years I’ve been playing. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m not cut from this kind of cloth. I play physical football. I come out here and give it my all. I give it my all all week.
This is the NFL (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/#). You can’t call it quits until the game is over.”
more:
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/
This is something that we haven't heard happening in the Bills locker room and quite frankly that scares me as it tells me they are fine with mediocrity and complacentcy. I don't mean calling each other out but the anger and passion to motivate one another.
Where is the passion from this team? Someone needs to get angry and motivate others to get angry too. Stroud? Evans? Poz? Lynch is the team's 'class clown' - not happening.
Unless Whitner plans on debunking his prediction, he had better speak up - injury or no injury.
Here's the article:
JAMAL LEWIS: BROWNS NEED TO CHECK EGOS, FIND HEARTS (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/)
Posted by Michael David Smith on November 8, 2008, 5:20 p.m. EST
The Cleveland Browns have lost two straight games that they were in position to win in the fourth quarter, and running back (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/#) Jamal Lewis says he hasn’t been impressed with his teammates in those two games.
“Some people need to check their egos at the door and find some heart (http://news-herald.com/articles/2008/11/08/sports/nh91408.txt) to come out here and play hard,” Lewis said, per the News-Herald. “This is a man’s game. The way we went out and played two weeks in a row, finishing the same kind of way, it’s just not there. Some men around here need to check themselves. Straight up. That’s it.”
But while Lewis declined to name which teammates he was referring to, he wasn’t done when he said “That’s it.”
“It looked to me like some people called it quits when we were up,” Lewis continued. “You can’t do that. You have to finish. Denver’s back was to the wall just like ours is to the wall. But they came out and played good football (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/#). They were down. They kept their heads up, stayed poised and finished.
“This is as frustrated as I’ve been in however many years I’ve been playing. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m not cut from this kind of cloth. I play physical football. I come out here and give it my all. I give it my all all week.
This is the NFL (http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/#). You can’t call it quits until the game is over.”
more:
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/08/jamal-lewis-browns-need-to-check-egos-find-hearts/