Dillon Disaster Brewing?

[Ring 6]

People we are missing an important piece of the puzzle.
Lets take that worst case scenario and Dillon becomes a petulant whiner.

That WILL NOT hurt the team. When you have a team attitude with 53 (or the majority of them) players with the right attitude, one bad attitude stands out as the wrong attitude.
Not only does it make it uncomfortable for that guy, but it serves as a shining example of why you develop a team attitude. That guy gets shunnned, and actually brings the team closer together. If you work in an office where everyone gets along and works for the cause, and then bring in one bozo, it unites the rest of the team. It actually elevates their teamwork because they see an example of what they are preventing. They mock the bozo, they use him as the example of why they get along with everyone else.

Didnt work for Glenn, didnt work for Bledsoe.

When 45-52 of the players on a 53 man roster have the correct team attitude one bad attitude will never divide a team.

Corey Dillon cannot be a distraction to this team no matter what happens, unless the team would have lacked focus with or without him.

 

[GoWhalers]

One other item people are overlooking about Maroney -- he can't block, at least not yet.

There's no way he even sees the field if there's a risk he'll miss an assignment and get Brady killed. I'd rather have a Dillon at 50% but picking up his assigned blitzer, than Maroney at 100% and Brady getting blind-sided.

Last year we had to throw in new faces like Evans due to injury, but you can bet the blocking schemes and WR routes had to be adjusted to compensate.

 

[PlattsFan]

When you have a team attitude with 53 (or the majority of them) players with the right attitude, one bad attitude stands out as the wrong attitude.

Corey Dillon cannot be a distraction to this team no matter what happens, unless the team would have lacked focus with or without him.

This is the main point, to me. The Patriots won the Super Bowl primarily through sheer will and teamwork in 2001-2002, and they had *two* sulking veterans that year. And they were the two stars of the offense going into the year!

Corey Dillon, if he starts popping off, will get a whole lot of Tom Brady in his face. And a little bit of Troy Brown. And probably some Richard Seymour. And certainly a good dose of Tedy Bruschi. And lord help Corey if Rodney Harrison's healthy ...

It's not that BB won't stand for it, it's that the team BB and Pioli have built won't stand for it. That's the key.

Besides, Corey will be fine. He wants to play, and he wants to win. There's always room for guys like that ...