Pagano shaping a different kind of team
Paul Kuharsky writes today that this new era might also be a bit more fun for veterans:
Veteran safety Antoine Bethea characterized things as looser -- which I take as a telling word. Manning and Bill Polian weren’t especially big on looseness. It was a disciplined, serious atmosphere, and that was typically effective for the franchise. Last year as things crumbled with Manning sidelined, the tension level was too high and it was a factor in Jim Irsay's decision to part ways with Polian.
Things are working somewhat differently now.
“It’s very lively around here, eveybody’s joking,” Bethea said. “We’ve got a job to get done, and (Pagano's) making sure we know that. But at the same time we can have fun with it. ...We’re just having a real good time learning the concepts.
I was just thinking that.
It's makes me uncomfortable changing a system that won all those games.
There's so many unknowns about this team, I suppose there's room for one more
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While it's great that things are looser and "everyone is joking", it won't be very funny if we're not prepared because we lack discipline.
