That is flat out not true. Players are open to get additional coaching but are expected to follow the general conditioning program. None of this is optional.
There has been nothing of note outside of the usual anonymous sources saying that players didn’t take part in the general condition program. Especially not due to Guerrero. Furthermore, Edelman has just reported for it. He’s a Guerrero client. So the evidence against the “mutiny” that you suggested seems to hold water.
Where did I say that Dola turned into a diva ? He essentially said that BB runs a tight ship for the right reasons and he even took a paycut to be here knowingly.
If he wanted to get an explanation for why Butler was benched and wasn't getting it he should have talked to his other defensive backs who in interviews were also pissed but made clear that Butler was awful during the prep for the SB.
Those are two completely separate issues.
You mean the DB group that has given conflicting interviews in the wake of the game? Rowe saying, before the team went into damage control, that he didn’t know he was starting until right before kickoff. Then McCourty saying everyone knew? It’s hard to believe that Amendola hasn’t talked to any of those guys since then. His comments tell a story of offensive guys frustrated with their head coach after amassing 500 yards of total offense and 30+ points and still losing the game because he hasn’t given them an explanation for why HIS defense was handicapped based on HIS decision yet. Furthermore, given the way that you’re defining “diva” and applying it to Brady and Gronk, one can assume you’re also applying it to Amendola because, god forbid, he’s being critical of BB.
Gronk has always been a diva and Brady started to turn into one since last offseason. Giving weirdo interviews claiming that hydration keeps him from concussions and sunburns, selling questionable "recovery sleepwear" and suddenly needing affirmation like a Golden Retriever for doing his job from a coach he has known for his entire professional career.
Gronk has always been here when he’s healthy and doing what he needs to do without complaints. So to call him a diva is stretching. Saying that Brady only began giving “weirdo” interviews and hawking the TB12 product in the last year has also shown to be incorrect. It’s a product that he’s been hawking since at least 2013.
That you’re honestly saying that a guy that went through 18 years of hard coaching without a public complaint has suddenly turned into a diva looking for affirmation about how well he's playing should tell you that you're stance is the incorrect one. TB12 or no TB12, the guy has shown up daily, put in the work, the film study, and the attention to his health to go on a unprecedented injury-free run of GOAT-level play. What HAS changed, apparently, is the relationship between Bill and Guerrero. When you couple that with the fact that, given Amendola's comments, the reason for Butler's benching and the horrid play of the defense in the Super Bowl hasn't been touched on yet, you can see why Brady is upset.
In the end, I don't believe that you think that BB hasn't made a mistake. You just like the man and are compensating by doing a Stretch Armstrong routine to defend him. Don't believe me? Ask yourself this: what do you honestly believe is the case here? That BB made a mistake or that Tom Brady suddenly, overnight, morphed into being a diva that needs his ego stroked by his head coach after 18 years?
Maybe his mother going through that terrible ordeal gave him a fresh outlook on life beyond football. Maybe it really is just the entire Guerrero situation. Either way at some point early this year something changed in how he approaches his job after wanting to be coached hard for the last 15 years.
Except that this didn't happen early in the year. This happened late in the season and seems to have gotten worse after the Super Bowl.
