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A husky philosophy question?
oregonblitzkrieg
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You guys are hardcore trolls with an anything goes attitude but I've noticed you seem to draw the line at calling out individual players for poor play and heap the rage entirely on your coaches, especially Sark. I can respect this. But say you have an individual player whose performance record is so detrimental to your team that it just can't be ignored anymore. The guy's record shows that he's been given so many chances to improve his game but establishes such a dismal track record that it is apparent he just won't get it done and really just needs to go. Somewhere. Anywhere. Just off the fucking field. Do you still refrain from calling out the individual player, or do you maintain that the blame is 100% on the coaches for continuing to put faith in this player?
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It all goes back to coaching.
That said, there's something I just don't like about Micah Hatchie AKA the Bodyguard.
We've hated other individuals over the years too (Ossai, Garcia, and ASJ quickly come to mind).
Does that answer your question?
I never have got on board with the hardcore dislike and mockery of certain players. I understand where it comes from though. Locker was propped up as a savior by most of the doogs, the DM.c admin, and the husky honks and they never let go of it even after he was exposed for what he was (a big, fast meathead with a scatter arm and scatter brain). Jordan White-Frisbee was a talented guy who turned into a bloated big mouth who couldn't back up his talk. ASJ is a guy I still like that has become a target because he seems to have come out soft and out of shape this year when this should have been his springboard season to the NFL. Pretty inexcusable.
I have mocked Johnny Durocher and Carl Bonnell pretty mercilessly. These were two underwhelming talents at QB who DM.c and the honks kept pushing to replace Stanback. Kim made comments like "Stanback is a great athlete, Bonnell and Durocher are better QBs". This continued unabated even after both of those guys got their shot and showed they couldn't hold Stanback's jock.
Most recently I've poked some fun at John Ross and Shaq "predator" Thompson. They're both great talents who haven't (or hadn't...Shaq is pretty damn close actually) earned all the praise that has been heaped on them. Ross himself was supposed to be worth two wins this year according to one doog. Of course we're all waiting for him to make a play against someone other than Idaho St.
But yeah, there's plenty of criticism of players here. The difference is that player criticism here is inherently criticism of recruiting, development and/or coaching decisions to play said player. Other places player criticism is to distract from or outright silence coaching criticism.