Malcolm Butler was benched after 'breaking curfew to attend Rick Ross concert after [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 6, 2018 | Khaleda Rahman and Chris Spargo

[discostu]

If you’re telling the refs to hose them on the calls it’s a conspiracy. There’s 8 refs on the field, plus the booth guy, plus the New York review guys, that’s like a dozen guys. And with that many guys involved, somebody’s gonna crack, if only for the book deal.

There’s plenty of precedent for Elliott’s suspension. Ask PacMan Jones.

Sorry but the conspiracy nut who still can’t spell Bill Belichick has the 100% lock on stupid in this thread. Your idea is dumb, your arguments are dumb, you are dumb. have the last word, I’m sure it will be dumb.

[The Sons of Liberty]

It certainly was good of them to give you time off from your work release program to respond.

[Leo58]

“Enforcing discipline for its own sake at the cost of a championship is...lots of things, none of them positive.”

Just trying to get clarification and follow your point, what do you mean by enforcing discipline for it’s own sake?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Just trying to get clarification and follow your point, what do you mean by enforcing discipline for it’s own sake?

I think we can all agree that rules and discipline are intended to achieve certain objectives - we make rules for our children and discipline them when they break those rules so they will grow up with the virtues and characteristics we know will help them. College coaches set rules and enforce them so the student athletes they coach and teach will do well as both athletes and students, and form a cohesive team. In the military, rules and discipline are set to create the best fighting force possible.

The NFL is none of these things. It's a business built around a game, played by adult men who are paid handsomely for their work. The goal is to win games, and the ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl. All rules and discipline by coaches in the NFL are oriented around these goals. NFL coaches are not paid to teach life lessons to players or to help them become better people. They are paid to get their teams to the Super Bowl and win. Disciplining a player by refusing to let him play in the Super Bowl to the detriment of your team is analogous to confining needed troops to the barracks for a rules violations and thereby losing the decisive battle in a war.