Sporting News Article on DL

techneek1 said:
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=531531

Derrick Morgan asked to be a leader by CPJ & CDW.
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I think Derrick is one hell of a player, but that comment makes me nervous. True leaders don't have to be asked to take on that role. If the coaches are having to ask, then that means nobody has really stepped up and taken charge yet. We need a Tremaine Mack on D! Hopefully Brad Jefferson will step into that role as the spring progresses.
 
JWE37 said:
I think Derrick is one hell of a player, but that comment makes me nervous. True leaders don't have to be asked to take on that role. If the coaches are having to ask, then that means nobody has really stepped up and taken charge yet. We need a Tremaine Mack on D! Hopefully Brad Jefferson will step into that role as the spring progresses.
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I get what you are saying but I respectfully disagree from personal experience. My senior year in highschool the coach came to me and asked me and it totally changed my thought process with my teamates. I still played with all my heart on the field but off the field it made me more focused on being an example during practice as well, along with more focus on my good attitude. I helped keep tempers down and I'd like to boast that I was the glue that kept the team together in tough times.

Sorry for lack of specifics on what I did but I just wanted to give you an idea.
 
And I wonder if they really "asked" him to be a leader, or if he was already doing it, and they reinforced it by stating something like "DM, that's the way to be the leader we want you to be." Or perhaps after the season last year, one of the coaches might have said to DM "with everyone gone off the line, we are looking at you to lead, DM." I think only DM, CPJ, and CDW will ever really know what was done.
 
On the subject of defense, I hear Burnett is starting to take that role as well.
 
Its perfectly sane to ask an underclassman to take on the role of leader. He may very well want to be a leader but is reluctant to do so out of respect for the Seniors. Having CPJ ask him may have been little more than permission to do what he already wanted to do and the endorsement he needed for his teammates to accept him in that role.

Its all good.
 
00Burdell said:
Its perfectly sane to ask an underclassman to take on the role of leader. He may very well want to be a leader but is reluctant to do so out of respect for the Seniors. Having CPJ ask him may have been little more than permission to do what he already wanted to do and the endorsement he needed for his teammates to accept him in that role.

Its all good.
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Totally agree. Couldn't have said it better.
 
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