Some encouraging news on Sheard.

[Silver Blue&Red]

It wouldn't surprise me if his buddy, Collins, suggested he hang in there. Collins is probably regretting his decision making right now. Or maybe Sheard and is agent just came to their senses. This is just assuming there was an attitude problem to begin with.

 

[DarrylS]

I am a BB apologist to the Nth degree... however have to wonder if BB is losing some of his effectiveness as they are tired of hearing from him.,,

Not sure about football, but they say that happens in Baseball that players after a period of time tune out their coaches.. maybe it is as simple as not getting the message and his need to refine is listening skills.

 

[Tunescribe]

I think the whole thing has been overblown. While it was disapointing that his play had declined to the point where BB and the staff had to bench him for a game, but THAT was all it was. It's what good coaches do. You see a player not respond to coaching and you have to take it to the next level.

But there is a second part to this equations. Good coaches DON'T hold it against the player. You just make your point that see if the "tough love" works out. If he comes out and plays like his hair is on fire tomorrow, all will be forgiven and never thought of again. If he plays like he has during his slump, then his snaps will continue to decline unless someone gets injured, and Jabal Sheard will be playing for another team next season. It's as simple as that.

What we've heard so far gives us hope that the "messasage has been received" and the lesson learned. But all it is a hope. We won't know for sure until we see it translated on the field.

Fingers are now officially crossed.

What boggles my mind is that this sort of treatment is necessary with an adult paid millions of dollars. "You've been naughty so go to your room and think about it." So many pro athletes seem like cases of arrested development between the ears.

 

[Joey007]

Actually, it isn't rare at all on a BB team. He is doing things like this all the time.

To the extent of making a starter inactive due to performance issues? I don't see that very often unless it's a player getting phased out completely.

 

[goheels22002]

I watched the Bengals-Pats game from week 5 last night, and was amazed at how much my eyes were drawn to Elandon Roberts all game. He was great from all over the defense, and he came back from an injury and played well.

A motivated Sheard, Roberts and Flowers threesome with Hightower as the anchor/play caller is a good LB corps. If Mingo could grasp his assignments - he's athletic but frequently out of position - this is a good group. I wouldn't say it's an elite LB corps, but good enough.

I'm not sure about McClellin and Van Noye. Van Noye was around the ball last week a bit, but we'll see.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I think the whole thing has been overblown. While it was disapointing that his play had declined to the point where BB and the staff had to bench him for a game, but THAT was all it was. It's what good coaches do. You see a player not respond to coaching and you have to take it to the next level.

But there is a second part to this equations. Good coaches DON'T hold it against the player. You just make your point that see if the "tough love" works out. If he comes out and plays like his hair is on fire tomorrow, all will be forgiven and never thought of again. If he plays like he has during his slump, then his snaps will continue to decline unless someone gets injured, and Jabal Sheard will be playing for another team next season. It's as simple as that.

What we've heard so far gives us hope that the "messasage has been received" and the lesson learned. But all it is a hope. We won't know for sure until we see it translated on the field.

Fingers are now officially crossed.

I think the message was for the team as well as Sheard, especially the free agents to be. Play hard and fulfill your assignments or watch from home or the bench, period. Hopefully they all understand now that their best approach is to list your ass off and win a Lombardi, that's the best way to get paid. I think some saw Talib deal and felt like they could coast into s big contract, and Belichick had to make it clear that won't happen. Evause you won't be playing,

It's looking more and more like Jones and Collins will both be watching the play offs from home. Sucks for them,

 

[Uptown]

Let's hope Sheard can go off a Mack type run for the home stretch...

"That guy is Khalil Mack, who’s racked up two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, 10 tackles for a loss and all eight of his sacks in his past seven games. Mack’s not a flash in the pan, either. Since the start of 2015, no player has more than his 23 sacks.."

 

[convertedpatsfan]

I am a BB apologist to the Nth degree... however have to wonder if BB is losing some of his effectiveness as they are tired of hearing from him.,,

Not sure about football, but they say that happens in Baseball that players after a period of time tune out their coaches.. maybe it is as simple as not getting the message and his need to refine is listening skills.

Not going to pretend that I watched hundreds of hours of All-22 film or anything, but it seems like several guys were more interested in "getting mine" than "do your job." And it was detrimental to the D. If 9 guys do their job and 1 or 2 blow it, there's an easy completion or a big play or a wide open guy somewhere. Nobody says, "Wow, look at the majority of the D doing well there." It's "That guy was wide ****ing open."

Then the next logical step is others start seeing that, and either do it too, or try to compensate. Which catches them out of position. Maybe McCourty isn't doing his job because he's worried about contain on the running QB because a guy is not setting the edge. Or he's focusing on a potential busted coverage because someone else decides to blitz. Or maybe the LBs are getting caught up in trash and not able to make the play because someone went off-script and went for the QB.

I don't know exactly if, or how often these types of things happen. But it is pretty easy to see guys out of position or trying to do too much. Ryan has been caught staring into the backfield way more times this year than last. Is he trying to pad his INT totals before hitting FA? I don't know. But right now, there's a lot of issues with a D which had been pretty similar to last year's version before the Collins deal.

But whatever the issues, none of it is going to be on BB getting "tuned out." I mean come on. Sheard hasn't even been with the team 2 seasons yet, how the hell is the message already old to him?

 

[Betterthanmost]

Has anybody ever made it here after being in BB's dog house? Even if he dials it up, I doubt he will want to stay here.