Mr. Pink
03-18-2006, 03:04 PM
Everyone around here sits and says that they want to build a winner through character, character this and character that. Oddly enough you need talent to win not just character. The TO signing in Dallas made me have to write this.
I've seen people overjoyed at the resigning of Josh Reed because he's a HIGH character guy. Well guess what his character doesn't help him catch more passes. His character doesn't allow him to gain separation off the line from a DB. His character also doesn't get him in the endzone.
Complain as much as you want that you never wanted a player like TO on this team or even Keyshawn, what do these guys share in common? TALENT. You need talent to win games, who comes to play harder than either of these guys on Sundays? Not many. And that is all that really counts performance on the field not what guys do between M-F in the community. You want to see a winner on the field as do I and having a few of these selfish me first type players surprisingly enough helps you win.
Marv knew this back in the day, Jim Kelly wasn't the highest character guy, yet he did what it took to win so it was easy to look past all of his character issues. bickering bills era for example. Bruce Smith got caught by police asleep in his car with marijuana on board in Virginia, he was still here. I wouldn't call that one high character either. So don't sit back and believe Marv only wants high character guys, the problem is he hasn't shown anything in free agency that suggests he wants talent either.
People sit and point to the Patriots as the paragon of virtue and model of how every other NFL team should be built. Two years ago they brought in the miscreaint from the Bengals, Corey Dillon. Plenty people questioned his character, his heart, his commitment. Apparently that didn't dissuade the Patsies from bringing him and giving them a running game the sorely needed. So, even Bill Belichick and Pats brass knows that you need to take a gamble here and there to WIN.
Sure the Eagles last year fell apart like a house of cards in the wind. But what happened 2 years ago when TO came in? He took them over the hump of the NFC title game and into a SB. A SB that they wouldn't have ever even been in if TO didn't carry the entire offense on his back in the most gritty, heart driven performances I have ever seen. So go ahead and question his character, the dude helps your team win ballgames.
In conclusion I'll name probably the greatest QB we've ever seen in the past 25 years of the NFL. John Elway. A guy who spurned a franchise to go play baseball just because he never wanted to suit up in their uniform. That's right Mr. Elway was originally drafted by the Colts. Yet lead the Broncos to 5 SBs.
I've seen people overjoyed at the resigning of Josh Reed because he's a HIGH character guy. Well guess what his character doesn't help him catch more passes. His character doesn't allow him to gain separation off the line from a DB. His character also doesn't get him in the endzone.
Complain as much as you want that you never wanted a player like TO on this team or even Keyshawn, what do these guys share in common? TALENT. You need talent to win games, who comes to play harder than either of these guys on Sundays? Not many. And that is all that really counts performance on the field not what guys do between M-F in the community. You want to see a winner on the field as do I and having a few of these selfish me first type players surprisingly enough helps you win.
Marv knew this back in the day, Jim Kelly wasn't the highest character guy, yet he did what it took to win so it was easy to look past all of his character issues. bickering bills era for example. Bruce Smith got caught by police asleep in his car with marijuana on board in Virginia, he was still here. I wouldn't call that one high character either. So don't sit back and believe Marv only wants high character guys, the problem is he hasn't shown anything in free agency that suggests he wants talent either.
People sit and point to the Patriots as the paragon of virtue and model of how every other NFL team should be built. Two years ago they brought in the miscreaint from the Bengals, Corey Dillon. Plenty people questioned his character, his heart, his commitment. Apparently that didn't dissuade the Patsies from bringing him and giving them a running game the sorely needed. So, even Bill Belichick and Pats brass knows that you need to take a gamble here and there to WIN.
Sure the Eagles last year fell apart like a house of cards in the wind. But what happened 2 years ago when TO came in? He took them over the hump of the NFC title game and into a SB. A SB that they wouldn't have ever even been in if TO didn't carry the entire offense on his back in the most gritty, heart driven performances I have ever seen. So go ahead and question his character, the dude helps your team win ballgames.
In conclusion I'll name probably the greatest QB we've ever seen in the past 25 years of the NFL. John Elway. A guy who spurned a franchise to go play baseball just because he never wanted to suit up in their uniform. That's right Mr. Elway was originally drafted by the Colts. Yet lead the Broncos to 5 SBs.