“When you talk about guys like Mike Tomlin, [Mike] Vrabel, even look at [Bill] Belichick, it was no-nonsense BS. We get in here, we’re getting the job done, and it’s my way or the highway. It’s pure, this is how we’re going to coach it. I’m essentially the ruler… When you’re dealing with a coach that’s so nonchalant, laid back, wants to be the catalyst behind being a player’s coach, it kind of shifts that organization… It can work for other smaller league teams, possibly… As a player, I need somebody tough that’s going to lay the hammer down when it needs to be down and tell other players to get in line.
When you don’t got that, that impact can definitely be detrimental.”