Farr: Nobody wants to be Marc Bulger

Why are we even discussing this whole draft thing anyway? Why? He’s been right under our noses this whole time!

Roger Goodell: “With the 1st pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the St. Louis Rams Select:”

“Tim Tebow, Quarterback, University of Florida.”

(D’Marco wets himself)

Suh? McCoy? Clausen? Bradford? What? Who the hell are those guys compared to Tim Tebow? I mean, for crying out loud, he’s changing his release!

We’re INSANE if we pass on him for a stiff like Bradford or a grunt like Suh.

Stop being gentle and start being real?

Well, in reality, we have been one of the worst organizations in football the last 5 years.

In reality, we failed to hire the right coaches, draft the right players, and literally failed in almost every possible decision-making scenario we could have before 2009.

Among those failures, giving Bulger the contract we did wasn’t one of them. No one can disagree that this guy wasn’t elite at the time. No one. We all thought he was top 5, even 3.

What explains it? We ruined him. Linny, Zyggy, and Shaw ruined the era. Their ego clashes with Martz ruined the system that worked so well for Bulger, and Bulger held it down for a season of Linny’s system before it collapsed with the deteriorating talent around him on every level except running back.

That’s the only reality here. Could he have played better? I’m not sure unless we subject one of these elite QBs now to the same conditions.

What I do know is, the guy pretty much NEVER complained about how pathetic this Front Office has been for so long. Just now when it seems to be looking up, it seems to have order, cohesiveness, and cooperation, Bulger gets the can? He gets the blame for this BS? Not buying it.

If ANY players should get the blame for this (they don’t, even the busts who were overdrafted by these loonies), then the same can be said of Torry Holt, Isaac Bruce, Orlando Pace, and Leonard Little. Not so brave canning them right? Bulger playing QB has nothing to do with it. IF you want to place blame on players, then put it on EVERYONE. I don’t place blame on any of these guys, because I know how great they are/were, I don’t forget the loyalty I had to them in those times, and I don’t blame them because ORGANIZATIONS win, not PLAYERS ALONE.

Being “rah rah” like Farr apparently wants of Marc is a terrible piece of commentary.

Why? Because Farr’s talked about it before. How players sense fakeness. How players sense when someone isn’t being himself. His example was referring to coaches, but it applies. What I respect the most about Bulger is that he is who he is. He doesn’t pretend to be otherwise.

The strut off the field, the slow walk, the “I’ve been here before” attitude , that’s who Bulger is. That’s all he’s ever had to be if you ask me. If he was out there acting “rah rah,” the players around him would be onto it easily. THAT would make him a poor leader. The players around him say nothing but good things. So do the coaches.

If you call them diplomatic liars, then I call you a fool. Steven Jackson never bites his tongue. If he had an issue with Bulger, we would’ve heard about it. All I here from him towards Marc is praise. Same from Torry, same from Mike Martz, same from Ike, same from the people that played with him. Those guys can’t lie. Torry Holt apologized to Marc for not playing well enough .

That’s all I need to know about Marc as a leader.

D’Marco, just because you’re on NFL Total Access doesn’t mean you have to get excited and lose your integrity. He still said he believed in Marc as recently as last season, right after he was lost for the season. What changed from then till now? Nice little 7PM Eastern on the Network does exactly that.

That’s my unpolite, real opinion of these comments.

I don’t want rah rah, I want that QB that used to burn defenses like clockwork. Get him some half-decent receivers and maybe 1 more solid O-Line starter, and I can guarantee you’ll see that guy again and remember why you respected the guy and never questioned his “leadership” abilities before.

Not patient enough to try that? OK. Fine. We’ll take Sam. But don’t send the guy off with criticism and act like it’s his fault entirely that this team has sunk as low as it has. There’s 52 other players on that team. I’m not buying for a second that his importance even meets half of theirs.

If we want press conference masters, that Florida guy looks great. But the leadership of a player isn’t in having an intense looking face, it’s about being yourself and letting your play do your talking. Marc has done that throughout his career, and just because things have gotten as bad as possible the last 3 years, it didn’t change how he approached it. The poor guy came to work to get mauled every Sunday and never bitched about it to anyone, continued to contribute to military organizations and other community orgs, and still has the respect of our better players.

That’s really all I need to know, and I value their opinions, which are hardly diplomatic lies, MUCH more than a media byte on a Tuesday afternoon. At the end of the day, we don’t see him from Monday through Saturday and how he interacts with other players/coaches. These players do. D’Marco could never tell you more about Marc than Marc’s coaches and teammates. He’s just mad because he doesn’t flail his arms in madness like Brett Favre.

Fun to watch, but not if it’s his fake, and I appreciate that Bulger has always been himself, with the franchise crumbling around him or not.