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Watching that Jerry Burns uncensored press conference again - for at least the sixth time over the years - I was struck by how Jerry comes across angry yet answers every press question in a respectful (if profane) way.  He criticizes the players yet defends them.  The whole thing is glorious.  

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10 hours ago, Tabe said:

Watching that Jerry Burns uncensored press conference again - for at least the sixth time over the years - I was struck by how Jerry comes across angry yet answers every press question in a respectful (if profane) way.  He criticizes the players yet defends them.  The whole thing is glorious.  

I was trying to explain to my coworker, who played basketball, the reason why so many football players love their asshole coach, and this is pretty much it.  My high school football coach is one of the surliest people of all time, but at the same time would give you every second of his free time to you asked him a question, or wanted some kind of help with anything.  I went to high school in Virginia, and as you can probably imagine 2-a-day practices in late July/early August sucked.  We were having an issue with players cramping up, and the next day were were talking in the locker room before practice and he called every player on the team to make sure we were drinking enough water.  At the time, we had the largest student body in the history of the state.  He had a no-cut policy.  There were probably 100-150 players between Freshman, JV, and Varsity.  These weren't long conversations, but still that probably took 3+ hours out of his day on a day where he already spent 6 hours or so running practice and keeping track of a bunch of other people's rowdy teenage kids.  He also challenged us to design our own plays and challenge him to design defenses to defend your idea.  If we designed something great, he'd add it to the playbook and give us credit for it.  I know for a fact that he had players dropping plays off in this class between every period.  It was just adding work to his already busy ass day to keep us engaged.  So, when he yelled at us for dropping a pass, or missing a block, we already had a foundation of knowing that this dude is absolutely committed to making us better.

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12 hours ago, supremebve said:

I was trying to explain to my coworker, who played basketball, the reason why so many football players love their asshole coach, and this is pretty much it.  My high school football coach is one of the surliest people of all time, but at the same time would give you every second of his free time to you asked him a question, or wanted some kind of help with anything.  I went to high school in Virginia, and as you can probably imagine 2-a-day practices in late July/early August sucked.  We were having an issue with players cramping up, and the next day were were talking in the locker room before practice and he called every player on the team to make sure we were drinking enough water.  At the time, we had the largest student body in the history of the state.  He had a no-cut policy.  There were probably 100-150 players between Freshman, JV, and Varsity.  These weren't long conversations, but still that probably took 3+ hours out of his day on a day where he already spent 6 hours or so running practice and keeping track of a bunch of other people's rowdy teenage kids.  He also challenged us to design our own plays and challenge him to design defenses to defend your idea.  If we designed something great, he'd add it to the playbook and give us credit for it.  I know for a fact that he had players dropping plays off in this class between every period.  It was just adding work to his already busy ass day to keep us engaged.  So, when he yelled at us for dropping a pass, or missing a block, we already had a foundation of knowing that this dude is absolutely committed to making us better.

We had an assistant coach/defensive coordinator in high school that was just the most straight up misanthrope to everyone except his players, but would do damn near anything for us. He passed away a few months after we won the only football conference title in school history my junior year and I still miss that curmudgeon.

And our head coach (well, my junior year, unfortunately he took a different job before my senior year) was a lot more personable and likable and able to handle the parents and the rest of the town and all that, but he was also one of those coaches that just knows exactly what and how to give a speech that turns a group of 17 year olds into a focused unit ready to run through as many brick walls as you can find. Probably why he just won his second State title last year. (Might well have been his third if they hadn't had to forfeit a semi-final game due to COVID in 2020.)

 

Oddly my other varsity head coach also won a state title somewhere else though God only knows how since he was terrible. Took a senior class that had just two games total from 8th through 11th grade and somehow only got us to 6-4.

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4 hours ago, Pete said:

Rodgers is having the home opener last year's should've been. Almost giving me some hope for the season.

He looked very sharp. 

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10 hours ago, RIPPA said:

It is also clear he and Robert Saleh loathe each other

No, no, see Rodgers just wasn't expecting a hug from Saleh. There was totally no animosity behind him shoving his coach away. 

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20 hours ago, RIPPA said:

It is also clear he and Robert Saleh loathe each other

How is this different from the relationship between Aaron Rodgers and pretty much every human being on the planet not named Allen Lazard?

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17 hours ago, DangerMark said:

How is this different from the relationship between Aaron Rodgers and pretty much every human being on the planet not named Allen Lazard?

Randall Cobb and Allen Lazard have to be the coolest, most down-to-earth people on the planet because the man who seems to hate everybody absolutely loves them.

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