Mile High Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 So, Mularkey thinks Willis will be motivated by telling Jerry Sullivan and the rest of the clowns that he thinks Willis is playing poorly? 450916[/snapback] Not neccessarily. All I'm saying is that everyone even if you are a pro athelete has to be treated differently to motivate. Even outside of football, in the workplace the best managers who know "their " employees treat, act and talk to each one differently. Some are sensitive to things others may not be. In this case I think Mularkey is using the press kind of against Willis. This may not work on every player but I'm sure Mike knows what pushes his buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34-78-83 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 His boyfriend just got a new camcorder and says that to him all the time. 450936[/snapback] You apparently know how to motivate Stevestojan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 So, Mularkey thinks Willis will be motivated by telling Jerry Sullivan and the rest of the clowns that he thinks Willis is playing poorly? 450916[/snapback] You are 100% correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake-Fat Sunny Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 pssst... Mike.... SHUT THE !@#$ UP! Why does he get his rocks off talking to the media? Roscoe Parrish has a major injury and we get nothing. He's not happy with Willis's play and he holds !@#$ing press conferences? Yell at Willis all you want in the locker room. Hell, call his cell and tell him he sucked on Sunday. Why drag this sh-- into the media? Oh lord... 450904[/snapback] Uhh it appears to me that rather than dragging the media into this you see both MM and WM doing what they are paid the big bucks to do in managing what appears to be a media created firestorm. Judging from the chatter we see on TSW, one might get the impression: 1. MM is offering harsh criticism of WM and is disappointed in his production in a big way and over a long period of time. 2. MM is singling WM out for criticism. 3. MM is calling WM out and unless we see some big changes in his play on Sunday there almost certainly will be some changes made. All of this is wrong, wrong, wrong and one wonders where it came from since it did not come from reality. 1. MM said that Sunday WM was not hitting the holes with the authority he had in the past and needed to run into (and it is to be hoped) through these creases even if they do not look promising. Him being tentative and unsuccessful was obvious to anyone and it is simply dumb to see this as a big or long term problem as way back when ten days ago WM had a great game and in his only season with the Bills had a great year. How last weeks issues got blown up into some big deal or sign of a long-term problrm simply does not match reality. Perhaps after remaining too calm in most of our views after an 0-4 start last year MM is now panicking at 1-1 and being locked in 4 way 1st place tie in the conference after 2 weeks. Yeah right. Methinks one should look to the media for creating this controversy in a teapot. His calling a press conference today would not surprise me because this is obviously an issue where left to their own devices the press will write crap and a PC actually fills the vacuum with the positives he wants about WM hitting the holes hard in practice. 2. The proof of this not being some grand MM strategy to single MM out is that in his comments to the press he is on record finding fault with WM (he did suck Sunday btw), but also giving a share of blame to the OL and a share of blame to the himself and the coaches. Not only is he on record saying JP sucked Sunday but he even benched him. If he is singling anyone out it is JP. This WM stuff pales in comparison to how he challenged JP. Don't you agree? 3. Yeah, he is going to bench WM and go with Shaud Williams as his starter. Actually folks are so freaked out by what Rosenhaus may say or do next season that maybe we should cut WM now. Yeah right. This whole thing is so silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC-Bills Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Uhh it appears to me that rather than dragging the media into this you see both MM and WM doing what they are paid the big bucks to do in managing what appears to be a media created firestorm. Judging from the chatter we see on TSW, one might get the impression: 1. MM is offering harsh criticism of WM and is disappointed in his production in a big way and over a long period of time. 2. MM is singling WM out for criticism. 3. MM is calling WM out and unless we see some big changes in his play on Sunday there almost certainly will be some changes made. All of this is wrong, wrong, wrong and one wonders where it came from since it did not come from reality. 1. MM said that Sunday WM was not hitting the holes with the authority he had in the past and needed to run into (and it is to be hoped) through these creases even if they do not look promising. Him being tentative and unsuccessful was obvious to anyone and it is simply dumb to see this as a big or long term problem as way back when ten days ago WM had a great game and in his only season with the Bills had a great year. How last weeks issues got blown up into some big deal or sign of a long-term problrm simply does not match reality. Perhaps after remaining too calm in most of our views after an 0-4 start last year MM is now panicking at 1-1 and being locked in 4 way 1st place tie in the conference after 2 weeks. Yeah right. Methinks one should look to the media for creating this controversy in a teapot. His calling a press conference today would not surprise me because this is obviously an issue where left to their own devices the press will write crap and a PC actually fills the vacuum with the positives he wants about WM hitting the holes hard in practice. 2. The proof of this not being some grand MM strategy to single MM out is that in his comments to the press he is on record finding fault with WM (he did suck Sunday btw), but also giving a share of blame to the OL and a share of blame to the himself and the coaches. Not only is he on record saying JP sucked Sunday but he even benched him. If he is singling anyone out it is JP. This WM stuff pales in comparison to how he challenged JP. Don't you agree? 3. Yeah, he is going to bench WM and go with Shaud Williams as his starter. Actually folks are so freaked out by what Rosenhaus may say or do next season that maybe we should cut WM now. Yeah right. This whole thing is so silly. 451001[/snapback] Oh stop making sense FFS. That's really uncalled for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambler Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Oh stop making sense FFS. That's really uncalled for 451053[/snapback] Nothing like a little off the field minor controversy to help Bills fans forget how badly they played last week. Which Bills players can stand up and say they played great last week? Why are they so sensitive? Did Willis get his tender feelings hurt? Whaaaaaa! Whaaaa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffal0 Bill5 Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 If they're smart, they don't. 450944[/snapback] Actually, they are probably beside themselves with discouragement that the most knowledgeable Bills fan in history has been exiled. I think before we question MM's methods, we need to watch the game Sunday and see how they work. Raise your hand if you were happy with WM. I don't see many hands up. If he handled everything behind the scenes we might get the idea that he is not handling these issues at all. Maybe it's his way of letting the fans know, it's not good enough, and by golly, we're gonna make it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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