Lazar is usually an all-22 nerd who takes his football seriously and offers an objective take, isn't he? Maybe somebody convinced him to get into the hot take biz or something.
Anyway, I'm sure many players ARE frustrated. I'm not sure we WANT the sort of player who would take "Take this fiasco in stride."
It's time for some changes, obviously. Maybe it's time to drop the incremental "responsible adult" stuff and get a little bold. If I wanted to take what my old man used to call (and disparage as) a "ham-handed approach," this is what I would do.
1) Shakespeare's Hamlet is about many things (All of The Bard's plays are arguably about everything under the sun, aren't they?) The play is about a guy whose delight in being widely adored was so intense that he was afraid to actually DO what his core impulses told him must be done for fear of damaging his own and others' sense of what a delightful Prince he was. Instead of getting on with it, he indulged in endless, self-crippling perseveration, rendering himself hopelessly ineffectual, ultimately so mad in his self-induced frustration that, ironically enough, he was in the end only capable of acting impulsively, in a manner no adorable prince would ever adopt. That may be the fate of Jerrod Mayo. Shut the **** up, Jerrod, and DO something fer crissake. It almost doesn't matter what it is. Drop all the the Oprah horseshit and DO something. You are losing the room.
2) Get that punkass nepo-baby twerp Wolf out of there NOW. Jesus H C----: how much more do you need to see, Robert?
3) Sit Rhamondre. The adulation of this player, given his sub-par, contact-shy performance last year and his whiny refusal to make an effort at holding onto the damned ball this year, is a culture-killing absurdity. Sit him a while. He ain't that great anyway on a consistent basis.
4) Start Maye. We have rehashed all the arguments ad nauseum. Enough already. The players - I am sure - could not care less about your goddam "plan." Let their teammate play.
5) Van Pelt is a ****ing zero. You know the type. His message - an endless stream of vapid coachspeak - is consistent not because he is an "experienced" coach clear in his thinking, but because he is limited in what he knows and in what he can do. I find him annoying, a punchable fatass poseur (Gosh, I hope that's not too strong!). I am SURE the players are beginning to feel the same. Wouldn't you? He's got them playing middle school ball, and your presumably best player is just wandering around in front of the bench all game. **** that ****, as the kids say.
6) Give Robert - "Thunder" (wtf) - a nice gold watch. There comes a time for all men..... He did the right thing in firing Bill for incompetence. It's time to do the same for himself. The lousy "hiring process" which resulted in his hiring as HC his adored travel companion and in retaining obvious incompetents like Wolfe might in itself be a fireable offense.
So there. If I weren't as given to mature, sober thought as I am, that's what I would post.
