It sounds to me like the ultimatum has been given, grow up and act and train like a professional during your offseason, or fu&$ off... I dig that, but Ireland needs to tweak his philosophies in the college game, these days if the college players who are draft eligible are showing tendencies with all that they have at their disposal, it should be a large red flag, I really don't care anymore about the athletic ones who show obvious signs of neglect in college..tells me a lot about the players makeup..
Wait!! What!?!?!? I am reading and re-reading the second Paragraph. I know you are leading the "Honey Badger" bandwagon.......and now I am officially confused.....
I think he's referring to the players physical aspect. You know how DJ gets when it comes to a player and their bodies.
I'm aware of the risk involved with Matthieu, but being overweight, or to lazy to train for his craft is not something I've heard was a problem.
Sorry man but I dont see ANY difference, other than............ One guy can't quit eating, and one guy can't quit smoking. Both will negatively effect their pro football career.
I think Soliai was different...his issue wasn't that he was out of shape or all that much 'immature' (as it were), his problem is that he played a position that you have to grow into as a player...it takes 4-5 yrs to become a very good NT in most cases... We haven't seen JJ's potential yet because he continually comes into the season having to play his way into shape. Unfortunately, the rest of the OL isn't quite as skilled as the rest of the DL was to overcome Soliais' playing deficiencies at the position... The difference, to me, was that we think we might see something in JJ, but we're not sure. We could see it in Soliai, it just took him time to grow into the player he's become... JJ has to make that difference...
One can't quit eating and sitting on his *** while the other likes to workout and get high. I'd take the latter simply for the fact that he at least knows where/what the gym is.
Funny though, he had the most snaps of ANY player on our offense last season...Philbin might like this guy and if he could get his weight down to 335, you just might be looking at our starting RT.
Jerry does not fit the ZBS, just a matter of time before he is out of Miami for good. Combine that and showing up out of shape? Philbin will have no trouble saying good bye to him.
I don't really know where people got the idea that Jerry is a horrendous misfit for the blocking scheme or anything like that. He's a pretty good athlete for an offensive linemen, you don't really have to qualify it in the context of him being a big guy either. There's a reason he continues to be on the roster with a path to a starting job, and it isn't as a favor to anyone.
