LA Responds to Critizism

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Originally Posted by hurrykaine

You hit it on the head. Lavar was the most popular player here by a long shot, until Clinton Portis arrived into town. Unlike Lavar, Portis was a favorite of Gibbs. That also, unfortunately, coincided with Lavar's injury and he turned out to be a non-factor in games, which began his slide in popularity.

The perceived rejection of Lavar came from Williams and Lindsey, not from Gibbs. Lavar feels Gibbs' fault is that he didn't go out of his way to declare support for Lavar as he would've done for his hand-picked boys Brunell or Portis. He thinks Gibbs should've made it clear to the defensive coaching staff not to malign Lavar. Wasn't going to happen since Gibbs ceded control of the D to Greg Williams, who obviously has a tough-love style of player management. Lavar couldn't relate to tough-love given his prior superstar status.

Nice post.

Williams runs a tight ship on defense and a big name doesn't carry much weight with him. With LaVar, they just couldn't get him to buy in.

It was just a bad fit for both sides from the beginning. I think blame has to lie with both sides, and in the end parting ways was the only solution.