Brees and Rivers and the Market for Ramsey

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Originally Posted by canthetuna

Competitors usually have big egos (not brash, mind you, but big egos... they're confident) and when they look bad it does get into their head, and gibbs is one of the first to commend someone, and publicly defend them after a bad game... such as brunell at AZ and PH, and remember when Robert Royal had all those drops... and he mentioned in the press conference that Robert was a core guy and he just had a bad day but has been outstanding and all of that... that in a sense was coddling.

Yeah pats on the back are helpful in terms of showing support for a guy, I didn't mean that coaches shouldn't need to pay attention to those kinds of things with players. But a pat on the back didn't make Royal better. That's just consoling him after a bad game. Royal bounced back because he was determined to show that he could do better. He's a guy with good character and he came back determined.

Gibbs did the same with Brunell last year. He publicly defended him all year. But the reason Gibbs publicly defends guys like Royal and Brunell is because he knows they have that inner determination not to give up when things aren't going well.

Royal took his bad game hard, and was near tears in the locker room. But that doesn't mean he was going to get discouraged. I want QBs like that. And if we put Campbell in the game and he throws 6 picks and he gets discouraged and down on himself, then I want him off my team.