I got this from a fantasy football site. News: The New York Post reports that Jets WR Laveranues Coles is glad to be done with training camp, citing that it was harder this year than in the past, thanks in part to new head coach Eric Mangini. "It's more brutal than other years I've been in the league," Coles said. "Coming in and learning all the little things and trying to be on point about everything has been tough. From weighing in to eating dinner, all the small things you take for granted, (Mangini) has put a lot of emphasis on. Before it was one of those things where you just concerned yourself about preparing to play football, but he's come in and put emphasis on the things we take for granted."
yea we read about this yesterday but thanks again for reinterating it I gotta say...even though we may not look that great in the preseason, you have to think that mangini has these players ready for war
Wow. Interesting read. Maybe there's been alot of little things that haven't really been brought to light.
My impression was that Coles was saying not that it was harder, but that it was less... personal. That it was impersonal and unemotional. Or something.
Coles is a real emotional guy. His tough upbringing, the FSU scandal, etc. While he may have lost his buddies Abraham and Chrebet, he's still got Chad around. He'll be OK. I hope he buys into the program, and if he does, that Mangini treats him like the leader he can be.
thats the most encouraging thing ive read all season....Im sure rajensen will come on and say everyones gonna revolt, but I still like what im hearing
Honestly to me, it sounds a lot more like the expectations that Mangini has for his players, not just their grasp of the playbook, but what goes on before, between, and after practice is important. Good conduct is not requested, it's required. Hard work has replaced the hugs. Herm's Happy Love Camphas been replaced with Manigni's School of Bill-Style Hard Knocks is open for business.
This Post 'article' is the epitome of the kind of misdirection the media is taking with any team or subject, not just the Jets. If Laveranues said he's glad to be done training camp, why don't they quote that part? No, it says: No way to be accused of misquoting there. It's just their opinion of Coles' state of mind. Then you have the one single comment used as a lead in because Coles used the word 'brutal' and it's a red flag word for anyone who isn't paying close attention: I don't even see criticism in this quote, and also he isn't even saying it's the most brutal. The rest could just as easily be a compliment to Mangini's detail-oriented approach to coaching than any sort of complaint: The more times I read it, the more positive it sounds, but you and I will never know because there is no context to determine that, and the Post doesn't want us to know because then we'd know what happened instead of what they want us to think happened. Egh. No more of those pesky full-interviews where we get to see the actual personality of the player, now we get sound bytes carefully arranged to spell out the media's fart-joke equivalent of the news. BTW, I'm not venting on you, Jolly, just the article.
I agree with you. I actually read what he said as a positive. i didn't read what he said as critical of Mangini.
I believe it was yesterday's Bergen Record that actually put Cole's quote in the proper context. I don't remember the exact verbiage, but the reporter wrote that Cole's "brutal" quote came as a joke at the end of his main quote, as in--"I'm glad it's over, that was brutal, man." Leave it to the Post headless headline writers to try and pump up the discontent. Jackasses.
