Glad players don't seem to be taking media's bait

[Fake-Fat Sunny]

The article on the TBD site leading to some WM comments about Henry are great to see. I'm sure that the media would love nothing more than to have some type of Henry/WM dispute over PT, or some type of DB/JP redo of the RJ/Flutie controversy or something which allows them to write PFW articles or sell newpapers about this alleged fight.

 

Get over it!

 

Look, these are competive athletes and they all wish they were playing and if they are going to be good believe that they are the world's greatest athletes who can do the job if you just put them in coach.

 

However, this is a team game and perhaps the ultimate team game as a team's fortunes are going to depend most on how well the team works together than how well some individual player stars. Granted there is a paradox in that how well the team performs is going to come down to an individual making the right effort and doing the right the thing at the right time. However, these star moments are ultimately just moments and the game has been designed and built so that the individual must depend upon his teammates because no one player is on the field all the time and everyone is going to have a bad moment with injuries or the ball taking a funny hop and a lesser player is simply going to have to pickup for the star if the team is going to do well.

 

The disputes which the media (The Buff news, WGR, Pro Football Weekly. etc) feed serve the media's interests and not winning and the teams as their primary driver. The apolosits like Bills Digest (it really needs to strive to not be a house organ) and Channel 2 News also do not serve the fans interest as their primary driver since they clearly depend upon their access to feed their families.

 

Both the apologists and the rabblerouser media are the best source of information we have about what is going on with the team, but just because they are the best is really different from saying they are good. In fact, the media is at its worst when they look to foment controversy were there isn't or try to play on the players good and natural competitiveness to try to emphasize things which create controversy.

 

I think the Bills are far better off when they take the attitude offered by WM that Henry is the man and the RB as long as he produces and WM will simply have to make do even if it means he has to pretend to like it if he gets too few touches a game.

 

Henry has committed obvious errors which could lead to it making sense to bench him (heading the wrong way on his cut on the aborted Bledsoe role out is only one of the key reasons this play blew up. his two slips were a big problem), but for now Henry gained almost 100 yards and he has played a man's game in the past and the team is helped most by him getting another chance to do well rather than sinking into some funk or a controversy even if it would sell papers.

 

In fact Henry's errors make all the more reason for WM to shut the hell up and not to do something that causes a cancer on the team, because if Henry makes another round of similar errors to his slips or running the wrong way, he can easily be benched and WM will get his chance to shine without the stupid controversy.

 

WM has waited almost a year and a half to recover physically to this point. There seems to be little he can do to determine whether this team makes the playoffs or not because he gets 24 touches instead of 12 over 3 games. It may suck for the media and some posters but the best thing for him to do is wait in silence for now and maybe sooner rather than later we will see him get 75 touches over 3 games because he is our feature back. Having an argument about this in publc will actually retard his progress if TD or MM dig in their heels to change.

[jester43]

i'm starting to think mcgahee is happy not to be playing behind this line.