Steelers' OLB to teammates: 'Do your job'

[frankthetank1]

Re: Steelers' OLB to teammates: 'Do your job'

if any nfl player isnt fired up to play all of the time they should get a new job.

Really? Ever played a competitive sport at a high level? I guarantee you that you do not give 100% all day every day at your job. if you think you do, you are kidding yourself. Just go ask you boss. Should you look for a new job? Of course not. Because it's not practically possible. If you boss or a co-worker comes by and lights a fire under your bad word, I'm sure you get a little more motivation than you other wise had alone.

Every human being goes through emotional highs and lows.... adrenaline ebb and flows... it's natural. It's tough to stay up for a full 60 minutes every single Sunday.

Sometimes people need that outside catalyst.

You shouldn't down play the importance personnel that can be that catalyst.

No I'm not saying it needs to be a trash talker like JP. That was part of how he got it done. But there is more than one way to skin a cat.

i played division 3 baseball and i did give 110% all the time. i dont at work because its not sports. anything a person is passionate in they should give 110% ALL THE TIME. they play football for a living so they shouldnt need extra motivation. if i was good enough to play in the minors i would be ecstatic and give it all i got every day and thats minor leauge baseball im talking about. cant imagine having the honor to make good money playing a sport

[feltdizz]

Re: Steelers' OLB to teammates: 'Do your job'

The team needs a voice on defense. Say what you will about peezy, but he got this defense fired up. Foote is a huge loss too, not so much as a player, but as the loud mouth who got the D fired up. The defense needs a new trash talker.

They aren't missing a mouth that roars.

On the contrary, they are missing two of the most soft-spoken, humble guys on the team, Troy Polamalu and Aaron Smith. If those two guys were in the lineup instead of Carter and Eason, our defense would be actually be trash-talking less, and performing more.

Bingo... I bet half the communication break downs are due to Ike and Carter talking trash instead of listening to the play called. I also think Troy knows most of our sets before Farrior and Lebeau

[SuperSize]

Re: Steelers' OLB to teammates: 'Do your job'

I am glad Harrison spoke up, his message is EXACTLY what this defense needs to hear. I sure hope they are hearing it from the coaches, too. In my opinion, after developing a scheme, this is a coordinators MOST IMORTANT RESONSIBILTY, making sure everyone's doing what they are supposed to do.

When I got my first job out of college, I was a front line supervisor for a nationwide trucking company. I was full of enthusiasm and green as grass. I'll never forget one morning the VP of Operations was touring our facility, so I was running around re-arranging the loads so that they would be "easier" to unload at the next destination. The problem was that in doing this, I was wasting some available space for additional freight. When the VP got to my section of the dock, I proudly showed him how I was going to improve our productivity at the next destination by loading the freight in a user-friendly manner for the next station. He looked at me, looked at the loads, and asked me if I knew where the company saved more revenue, on dock productivity or on load factor? I said I wasn't sure, and without telling me which was more important, he just ate my a$$ about not following MY procedures. He explained to me IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that I was to do my job as best as I possible could, AND TO COUNT ON THE GUY AT THE NEXT DESTINATION TO DO HIS JOB.

The point of this little anecdote is that after some investigation on my part, I found out that load factor was the most critical aspect of our profitability. My VP taught me at that moment that everyone has a job, and only if everyone does THEIR job to the best of their abilities can the overall plan work. Once everybody meets their responsibilities, the manager (or coordinator in this case) can then identify either weak links in the personnel or weak links in the scheme. If everyone is free-lanceing, or even a few guys are, it is next to impossible to fix problems, because you can't identify the root cause.

Here is my shout out to the Steelers, both on offense & defense, just follow your assignment, execute the best you can, and then go back to the huddle without any stupid dances, motions, finger pointing, or any other infantile behavior that is so prevalent. It looks ridiculous when your winning, and idiotic when your losing.

Time to sack up...we'll find out if these are the professionals Tomlin says they are, or a bunch of guys running out the string and cashing their checks.


Pete

He also taught you that you shouldn't try to make things better, more efficient or more cost effective, all you did after that day was perform your job lockstep, one task after another and never deviated. He effectively eliminated any potential benefits of thought from one of his employees, I'm not sure the VP made a wise decision that day.

Pappy

Man, that's awesome that you know what he taught me that day, and you not even being there! And you even know how I performed my job after that, too!

FYI, what I learned (& what our current Steelers need to learn or re-learn) is that they have a specific role to play, a specific duty to meet for each specific play. The time to examine "potential benefits of thought" is not any time you feel like it, but after you understand your role, and everyone else's role, and you understand the consequences of failing to meet your obligation. Like I said, I went on to investigate all of the data to gain a greater & more complete understanding which would allow me the opportunity to make more educated decisions in the future.

The VP made a good decision with me that day, he opened my mind to understand the SIMPLEST thing first, and he hoped that I would build on that. Our guys (Taylor, Clark, Carter, Timmons, etc.) need to go back to the SIMPLE parts now & like Deebo said, just DO THEIR JOB.

Pete

[NC Steeler Fan]

Re: Steelers' OLB to teammates: 'Do your job'

Wow, this thread has all sorts of inspirational thoughts in it. From points
made to rebuttals....this is great football talk if you ask me.

Um, don't mind me though, I'm just here for window dressing...