ET TU HUGH? (Did you have an extra large knife or was it a machete)?

[Feva]

Nothing banter would suit me fine, thanks.

[MadMarchHare]

I think comparing him to Spadaro is fine - they are both faces of the team, in different capacities.  Does Hugh really have a pulse on the team?  Who the hell knows.  But his statements seem reasonable when you just read that within the quotations.  Everything else is reporter hyperbole, and you have to be careful how to take his statements in or out of context.

McNabb isn't a forceful leader.  I think that's pretty clear.  The question is:  do you have to be to lead a football team on or off the field?  Having never played, I wouldn't know.

[Wingspan]

Comparing him to Spadaro in any way is ridiculous.

they go to the same barber

[Beermonkey]

I think comparing him to Spadaro is fine - they are both faces of the team, in different capacities.  Does Hugh really have a pulse on the team?  Who the hell knows.  But his statements seem reasonable when you just read that within the quotations.  Everything else is reporter hyperbole, and you have to be careful how to take his statements in or out of context.

McNabb isn't a forceful leader.  I think that's pretty clear.  The question is:  do you have to be to lead a football team on or off the field?  Having never played, I wouldn't know.

As individuals within a group, be it business or football, respond to different types of leadership, having multiple types in the locker room is what would be ideal.  As long as you have those "in your face" types on both sides of the ball to balance out those who lead through example & teaching, the chemistry should be what they need.

Why does the QB have to be the "in your face" type?

[PhillyGirl]

Nothing banter would suit me fine, thanks.

ding!

[DutchBird]

The problem,

I think is that you need leaders at every position, and for the team as a whole. I think that there something might be wrong with the team. Besides you need a few teamleaders, some vocal, some "in your face", some by example. And I think there might be some failures in that department as well. And in that respect you do not necessairly need an in your face type as QB.

The biggest thing however, I think that for a leader, especially the "in your face type" you need someone who has accomplished something, and so commands the respect of the team. And on the offensive side these are, maybe apart from Runyan, sorely lacking so it seems. On the defensive side things do not seem that bad... though the new leaders should be groomed there right now to take over when the days of Trotter and Dawkins are over.

Just 0.02 euro's.

[PhillyGirl]

Dutch, did you MISS Sheldon Brown's comments?

The guy has already been groomed into a leader.

[rjs246]

Who's Sheldon Brown?

[General_Failure]

You know that commercial with the guy in the cheap kangaroo suit stealing jerseys? He's the one holding hands with Tito.

[rjs246]

I hear your job's your credit at Eastern Motors.

[General_Failure]

Can I get an 89 Sunbird there? That's a sweet car.

[DutchBird]

Dutch, did you MISS Sheldon Brown's comments?

The guy has already been groomed into a leader.

But what has Sheldon done for the offense?

You need the guys in the locker from for the team as a whole, and they could play any position. You need them per section (offense, defense, special teams) as well. The whole defense could be a vocal or "in your fase" leader, but that does not affect or help the offense a iota. And if Sheldon is the only guy on defense, you are in trouble as well.

[General_Failure]

If anyone else on the defense had some talent they might be willing to step up. Or not. You never know. You'd figure Jim Johnson would want some asskickers on his defense though.