>>>>After reading Jones's comments after last night's game, I think there may be a first time.
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>>>>He's a blowhard....a ton of hot air. He should stop the talking and either do something or shut that hole of his.
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>>>Yes, he's a blowhard, which isn't so surprising for a rich Texan who used to play football. I think a lot of owners would be pretty upset with the effort the team has shown this season. It's a disgrace.
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>>I get the impression Wade Phillips is the vanilla Romeo Crennel.
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>I think they are going to have more in common very soon.
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>BTW, you may be interested in an article about Eric Mangini in yesterday's paper. He was in a tough spot around the first of the year and has managed to turn some things around.
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/sports/football/07mangini.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=eric%20mangini&st=cse

That's a good article. I've always kind of liked The Penguin because he had little patience with the prima donnas and really believes football is a team game. His team is better than the sum of its players and that is making the players better. It takes a while to turn a culture around and Crennel's team was a mess. Getting rid of Winslow and Edwards and avoiding head cases like Moss is very much Mangini's style and I think that is one of things Holmgren saw in keeping him.

And he's learning. If you look at the vikings and the cowboys and denver you remember how it can all go wrong when a coach doesn't really know what he stands for.