I have had some time to think about our program on the 12 hour drive back home from Knoxville.
ive seen and heard some things over the last few weeks that former players and current players have said. I even had the opportunity to talk with Stevens Dad Saturday night.
Ive been team Moorhead the whole way until I saw that crap on Saturday. There are plenty of excuses with injuries, Tommy not being able to get in a groove with injuries, suspensions, 3 first rounders and a ton of NFL talent and leadership leaving the team last season, inopportune penalties, lack of self discipline... but losing the way we have the last two games is inexcusable.
We have former players saying that the coaches aren’t hard enough on them, that they look soft, that they don’t have pride, that they’re more worried about what people are saying on Twitter than what their performance on the field is like and I agree and I’m glad we have former players speaking up about this. They would know!
We have all seen moments where this team has grit and plays angry, runs and blocks angry, tackles angry and just look like we want it and have a physicality about us but more times than not we don’t have any of that.
To me that reflects a lack of leadership. Whether that be on a lack of leadership on the team or complete lack from the coaches on staff. Our defense last season had leadership. Sweat, Simmons, Green, Abrams demanded more out of their guys I believe. It doesn’t appear to me that we have any leadership on this team this year. Somebody has to hold their teammates accountable, slap their phone out of their hands at halftime, somebody has to grab some face masks and demand their best out on the field. I’m about to say it... they need some 17’n strain. These guys have the talent but they aren’t fighting with it all. I don’t see any desperation to win from these guys right now.
Coach is a players coach and I understand that but if they don’t respond to his yelling and actually come out and fight for each other and this program that our former guys have created then it’s about to slip right back into the cellar.
Cohen had a similar first hire with Cann being a players coach but not being demanding or organized enough and then went polar opposite with Lemonis. It’s looking more and more like the same may have to happen here because Moorhead doesn’t have the structure or presence to demand and receive the best out of his players and the players don’t have to give him everything because it’s being accepted. If this doesn’t turn around then we need to just find a new guy to lead this team that has some fire in him and can light a fire under these guys.
I still want to have hope for Shraders upper class men years but that hope and faith is burning real low right now. Sorry for the length of this post.
ive seen and heard some things over the last few weeks that former players and current players have said. I even had the opportunity to talk with Stevens Dad Saturday night.
Ive been team Moorhead the whole way until I saw that crap on Saturday. There are plenty of excuses with injuries, Tommy not being able to get in a groove with injuries, suspensions, 3 first rounders and a ton of NFL talent and leadership leaving the team last season, inopportune penalties, lack of self discipline... but losing the way we have the last two games is inexcusable.
We have former players saying that the coaches aren’t hard enough on them, that they look soft, that they don’t have pride, that they’re more worried about what people are saying on Twitter than what their performance on the field is like and I agree and I’m glad we have former players speaking up about this. They would know!
We have all seen moments where this team has grit and plays angry, runs and blocks angry, tackles angry and just look like we want it and have a physicality about us but more times than not we don’t have any of that.
To me that reflects a lack of leadership. Whether that be on a lack of leadership on the team or complete lack from the coaches on staff. Our defense last season had leadership. Sweat, Simmons, Green, Abrams demanded more out of their guys I believe. It doesn’t appear to me that we have any leadership on this team this year. Somebody has to hold their teammates accountable, slap their phone out of their hands at halftime, somebody has to grab some face masks and demand their best out on the field. I’m about to say it... they need some 17’n strain. These guys have the talent but they aren’t fighting with it all. I don’t see any desperation to win from these guys right now.
Coach is a players coach and I understand that but if they don’t respond to his yelling and actually come out and fight for each other and this program that our former guys have created then it’s about to slip right back into the cellar.
Cohen had a similar first hire with Cann being a players coach but not being demanding or organized enough and then went polar opposite with Lemonis. It’s looking more and more like the same may have to happen here because Moorhead doesn’t have the structure or presence to demand and receive the best out of his players and the players don’t have to give him everything because it’s being accepted. If this doesn’t turn around then we need to just find a new guy to lead this team that has some fire in him and can light a fire under these guys.
I still want to have hope for Shraders upper class men years but that hope and faith is burning real low right now. Sorry for the length of this post.
