Which of these do we need to retire first?

[DallasMac]

McClappy?  Cmon now.  This place can do better.

[Kirby Jackson]

11 minutes ago, DallasMac said:

McClappy?  Cmon now.  This place can do better.

I wasn’t going to add it because it is used about 5% as often as the other 2. They are all terrible and lazy though.

[Fan in Chicago]

8 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:

Now that we have reached peak offseason it feels like a good time for some spring cleaning. Which of these 2 gets voted off the island first? While they both need to go, let’s see which one TBD finds more annoying.

I am partial t McBeane ?

[cba fan]

7 hours ago, Logic said:

How did this even get to be a way of describing a hard working player? 

What is it about consistently bringing lunch to work that equates to work ethic?

Isn't it equally possible that an extremely lazy player would still bring food for himself to eat every day?

I just don't get it.

It is a long standing characteristic of a "blue collar worker" who by that very description is in reference to a hard worker.

A worker who is more driven and steady than skilled and carries the day because he never gives up. He just keeps on keeping on like the energizer bunny. He does not have the skills to be promoted or move up to a higher position in his field and just eats lunch day after day after day.

[LSHMEAB]

11 minutes ago, cba fan said:

It is a long standing characteristic of a "blue collar worker" who by that very description is in reference to a hard worker.

A worker who is more driven and steady than skilled and carries the day because he never gives up. He just keeps on keeping on like the energizer bunny. He does not have the skills to be promoted or move up to a higher position in his field and just eats lunch day after day after day.

I've never been a tradesman, but I've always wondered if they actually stuff their lunch in a "pail." If not, this whole lunchpail analogy is a big fat con!

[Augie]

16 minutes ago, LSHMEAB said:

I've never been a tradesman, but I've always wondered if they actually stuff their lunch in a "pail." If not, this whole lunchpail analogy is a big fat con!

 

Think of a hard working 4th grader. And Spider Man! 

[cba fan]

19 minutes ago, LSHMEAB said:

I've never been a tradesman, but I've always wondered if they actually stuff their lunch in a "pail." If not, this whole lunchpail analogy is a big fat con!

This is a lunch pail. And yes it was and is still a thing. Was actually a pail back in the day.

 

 

[BruceVilanch]

11 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

I’m fine with both.  I am, however, in favor of retiring “quick first step,” “lunch pail guy,” and “high motor.”

Gym rat? sneaky athleticism? plays faster than his tape? 

[BobbyC81]

15 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

I’m fine with both.  I am, however, in favor of retiring “quick first step,” “lunch pail guy,” and “high motor.”

 

I feel the same about “giving 110%”

[Bill from NYC]

Process all the way. It is embarrassing how he plagiarized that from Nick Saban, who has the championships to back up his call for a "process."

[LabattBlue]

As someone who has used McClappy in the past, I would be more than happy to stop using it, if I never have to read “trust the process” or the shortened version “process” ever again. 

[GunnerBill]

44 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

Process all the way. It is embarrassing how he plagiarized that from Nick Saban, who has the championships to back up his call for a "process."

 

*college

[Jauronimo]

12 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:

I wasn’t going to add it because it is used about 5% as often as the other 2. They are all terrible and lazy though.

Didn't trust the process actually come from Flicky McBean?  Unlike the other two, fans did not originate trustworthy processes.

[buffalostu2]

It might need to be changed to "blindly trust the process".   They have never laid out the process for any of us to believe in.   

 

Whatever they do we take it as pre planned and call it "the process".   Processes are documented before execution and communicated to create what is called mobilized commitment.       

 

This doesn't mean they don't have a process planned.  You just can't ask people to believe in something they don't have any knowledge of.   

 

Maybe "trust us" or "trust the path" would be a better tagline. 

[TigerJ]

3 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

Process all the way. It is embarrassing how he plagiarized that from Nick Saban, who has the championships to back up his call for a "process."

So, he shouldn't borrow a philosophical position on how to run a team from the most successful college coach of all time?

[billsfan1959]

I'm in favor of retiring all three...

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

McBeane isn't an insult or term of endearment. For better or worse, McDermott and Beane work very closely, and the lines are blurred, at least in the public eye, as to which one made the final decision. 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Steel Sharpens Steel   (or whatever) 

[WhoTom]

5 hours ago, ColeB said:

 

I feel the same about “giving 110%”

 

When Madden was on MNF, I remember him talking about a player who had a 4.4 GPA in college. He said it was because the kid took graduate classes as an undergrad, so they counted as more. I was thinking, "Come on, John ... say it: he gave 110%." The one time it would have been correct, and he didn't say it.

 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

26 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

 

When Madden was on MNF, I remember him talking about a player who had a 4.4 GPA in college. He said it was because the kid took graduate classes as an undergrad, so they counted as more. I was thinking, "Come on, John ... say it: he gave 110%." The one time it would have been correct, and he didn't say it.

 

Madden was maddening 

 

Helmet speakers ....  To increase the volume they changed the "attenuation" which would get the QB's attention to improve or some such silliness