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Originally Posted by Schneed10
You love the "voluntary doesn't mean voluntary" argument. But I'm sorry it does. It is what it is.
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Actually, I'm not saying voluntary doesn't mean voluntary. What I'm saying is I can't believe how nonchalant so many people are about the fact that he's missing the OTAs. I'll conceed that contractually ST doesn't have to come to the OTAs. But you know what, nobody else HAS to either, yet they're all there. That, to me, is a problem that I'm not willing to dismiss without a good reason. And the excuse that he's just a little too emotional right now to be there, is not, in my opinion, a valid reason. Again, I'm just surprised so many are willing to say: "well, Portis said he needed some time away, and he's shy, so what are you gonna do?" What are you gonna do? Bench him. Sit him. Yell at him. Shake him around. Do SOMETHING for God's sake to let him know that this is not ok. He's a professional, he's part of a team, it's time to act like it.
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Should we cut him or trade him, or even bench him for a game? No way, not until he does something WRONG.
And that's your bottom line.
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Well then this is where we differ. I think he has done enough wrong to sit for a few series, because I think his actions are "WRONG." Not calling your coach back is wrong. Not showing up without an excuse is wrong. It's certainly not right, because if it was, ST wouldn't be the only player in the NFL to do these things without a valid reason.
What I'm proposing isn't ground-breaking here. Coaches in professional sports have sat players over the years for any number of reasons. Tell me where the rule is that a player can
only be sat for breaching his contract? Disrespecting your coach is the fastest way to get benched on some teams. Showing up out of shape is another (stay tuned for whether that is the case or not). Failing to show a team attitude is another. Guys have been benced for getting arrested. That doesn't breach their contract, and they may be found innocent eventually, but players have still been benched for it. I'm sorry, but to propose that Gibbs has no right to make a player sit for showing him complete disrespect by not even calling the man back? That, to me, doesn't make sense.