Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.
Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
I want to hear from my team in a way that they know they don't have to hold back. I've made it clear that there are no repercussions for brutal honesty. I let them know that we want to hear about anything they feel is not working for the company.
Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.