Or if he was. After the past three seasons, you might have thought Dungy would get a little credit for knowing a player, particularly a defensive player, particularly a defensive player on his front seven. There isn't a coach in the league who will admit the criticism bothers him, but most, it does. It used to drive Sam Wyche crazy, for instance. But Dungy, a man of rare perspective, convinces you this is the finest occurrence in the world.
People do take it personally.
They take it emotionally . To make sound decisions, you have to try to take that stuff out of it. When you demote an Errict Rhett, or when you cut a Brad Culpepper, everyone is going to look at it differently than you. As a head coach, you have to do what you think is right, even if people think you're wrong. This time, I'd say it was 99 percent against.