From: reams@crchh462.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Cary Reams)
Subject: Re: Jimmy Johnson: Love em or hate em, he's a winner (and a whiner)
Reply-To: reams@bnr.ca
Organization: NT/BNR
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:59:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.162302.18032@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>, lor@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (edward.lor) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec16.104454.20104@Princeton.EDU> Frank Bilotti <frank@wanda.princeton.edu> writes:
|> >'I'll be happy the next time we win. That's when I will have a good
|> >feeling again. I didn't have a good feeling at Miami until we won the
|> >national championship. And to this day, I still think about the pain we
|> >had after that loss'(referring to Penn St., Fiesta Bowl).
|> > .....
|> >Oh, by the way, feel free to flame away, JJ can take it!
|> NO, he can't.
Yes, he can. 

|> 
|> Two days after a controversial call against his team, he still whined about
|> it on TV.
and thats all we get to see as fans, is teevee.

|> 
|> That's NOT what a professional coach should do. In sports, you get good calls
|> and you get bad calls, but good or bad, you MOVE ON. Only a crybaby dwells
|> on a bad call against his team.
IYHO.
IMHO, if it doesn't hurt when you lose, you aint playin all out.


|> 
|> Back in October, the Skins got screwed by a "12 man on the field" penalty 
|> against the Giants that led to a TD right before the half. They lost the game.
|> The league office ADMITTED the mistake, but we didn't see Joe Gibbs putting
|> up a soap opera on national TV claiming "you want something so bad and somebody
|> takes it away from you ...."
|> 
|> Back in 1984, the Broncos and the Seahawks were in a big divisional battle.
|> The Seahawks won, largely helped by a Bronco fumble that should have been ruled
|> an incomplete pass (receiver didn't have possession). Later, Dan Reeves
|> commented something to the extent of "let's move on ...."
|> 
|> That's why I always think a pro coach's attitude is "good or bad break, you
|> take it like a man". Hey, bad calls are PART OF THE GAME, let alone the Aikman
No protest was filed. And there were no shots of him flaming away at the
refs; something else for which JJ is known. Instead he was (most-likely) 
setting the offense for the next drive.  Moving right along,.....

|> fumble not being an outright wrong call.
(or an outright correct call)

|> 
|> JJ is not a man, he's a crybaby.
|> 

And of course, you have personal knowledge that he is moping around
his office and the locker room, not preparing the Cowboys for their
game in Atlanta.

All we see is what any coach wants us to see. A show for teevee. JJ is
a master psychologist. This team feeds off of him. If he's dwelling on
it, he wants the entire team to think about it. There is a purpose to
it. 

Didn't see this kind of psycho-manipulation after the Eagle or Ram losses.

I'd hate to be a practice sled at Valley Ranch Thursday morning.

|> -- 
|>                                           Edward Lor
|>                                           lor@cbnewsk.att.com
|>                                           

bring it on............................


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