Here's what happened on Sunday.
Andrew Adams was in the process of removing an eagles player
from the pile after a muff by jail and rigor and Bruce Arians
came over with a slap to the head and a following elbow to
the shoulder pads and a little shove on the
back end. And probably a few Choice words as he was telling
him get the hell out of here. You can't be pulling a golf
Apollo. You're going to get us a penalty. Yada, yada yada.
Now,
look, folks, noticed. It was written about the NFL declined.
Comment the nflpa declined. Comment. Here's Aryans
commenting on Monday, when asked about the
incident at his press conference.
Hey, coach. I think you briefly touched on this last night.
Your interaction with Andrew Adams.
I know you kind of swatted at his helmet at all there. Can
you just kind of take us through that? And was it
regrettable at all, for you? The fact that you actually like
make contact with this helmet. No,
and
seen enough dumb. You can't pull guys out of a pile. We
just got a big play great field position
and he's trying to pull a guy out of a pile, and I was trying
to knock him off that guy. So he didn't get a penalty.
And that's the explanation for Bruce Arians. And that's
obviously what he was doing. But, hey, look. Look like a.
I'm trying to think of a time that we've seen in NFL, coach
cross that bright line of Thou, shalt not lay hands on
a player. I can't think of the last time I saw it and it's
a bright line. I'm sorry. I don't care. Bruce Arians.
Funny, guy Bruce Arians Super Bowl champion, two-time Coach
of the Year. Fine. Great. Congratulations. Well done.
Still can't lay hands on a player.
And even though the NFL hasn't said anything yet.
And the union hasn't said anything publicly.
I'm
I'm told it's being handled and that the league is fully aware
that there are certain things. You cannot do and you cannot
lay hands on a player period.
No. Listen, it's not a great. Look. It's you know,
it's one where yeah, it's 2021. You don't see stuff like that
happen anymore. Now, what I will say
is again, I think it speaks to a guy like Bruce Arians shoe
again. I'm
Put it in another category of like he's got the Midas touch
when it comes to players a little bit. He's got a magical
way of being able to love a guy
and then mother f a guy
and the guy doesn't feel like wait. He's like totally hates
me. He just emotional. And this is Bruce Arians and he's crazy
and he swears and that's the way he is.
He's probably the only socks me in the. How many elbows me
this. I know I'm not saying I'm side. No doesn't fly anymore.
No, I get it. But if there's one coach in football, they can
get away with it. It's him. Him, he's one of those guys
that just got that way about him. And I know it doesn't fly
anymore. Should he should he
get away with it? I don't know. Again, you know, that's up to
the player and and they'll that that to, I mean, again, it's
not a good look, the NFL is certainly not gonna like that.
That I understand that totally,
I get it. But I also think there's a faction of the old
school football World, myself included, where I grew up in
an era and you did too. I've swear the head, the head high school
coach. He smacked you in the head of times. He grabbed
your face mask. Told you what Evan idiot you were. I mean
that's kind of the old school football World. We've lost that
in the last 10 or 15 years, but that's the school. He's from
a little bit. Are you lamenting that? I mean, you know what,
I'm the type of player. If
that happened to me. I wouldn't give a damn. I'm just going to
say that I know but it's still a very touchy thing. It doesn't
look, right. Of course. There's a lot of Wyatt raised. It
doesn't look right. But like listen, if Jon Gruden
or Josh, McDaniels,
and I was there doing something like
That that could have maybe got us a personal foul and a grid
never do that to you. Well could never do that to you
though. He never did. He mean he degraded me with language,
but right no more times than not. That's okay. It was
justified
to so but but I guess it's yes, it's a weird one. You better be
a special coach that way and you better know who you're
doing that too. But certainly, I can understand the NFL not
liking it or anybody. Not liking it, I get it.
I agreed and didn't do it to you because you would have
picked him up and put it on top of a dragon. They're all dead.
I would have thought about it.
Huh?
Look like we've talked about this before it came up. Not
that long ago with Urban Meyer, just a claim that he kicked
the kicker and there was a dispute over how hard he kicked
the dryer that grease the skids for Meyer to be fired at a time
when his job was in very tenuous,
but Dad can I say this too, though? But Urban Meyer was
just jerk. Jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk and Bruce Arians has
the way of cool. Cool keeps it. Real cool gray. Coach. Great.
Coach coach. Oh, jerk move.
There's a little difference there and the context of how
it's set up.
Sorry to cut you off, but I just wanted to no, no, it's
fine. But, but look, look, we're led to
and this is the point I made yesterday. Yeah,
if the NFL is going to be obsessed with
the messages sent, right by football players at the highest
level by taunting by posturing. Yes, we can't let this
happen at the lower levels.
You need to be as concerned if not more concerned about
the message sent. Coaches of the lower levels, right? For it,
because that we've talked about this before. I've been in
earshot. Yeah, of youth football practice. And I've
been horrified
by the stuff that these morons will say 29, year-old kids,
not let them be nine year old kids. You're not getting them
ready to go to war. I'm telling you. I mean, it was almost so
bad that I almost interview. I could not believe what I was
hearing. Yeah, I guess so
when you see Bruce, Arians do that. If there's no
Sequence. If there's no sanction, if there's no and if
he's defiant know, because I've seen enough dumb. It's like,
hey, as long as you're doing something dumb. It's okay for
me to whack you in the head. That's not the message. That's
what I said. That's real. Ye whose to whom children are
a trust. Because a lot of these youth
football, coaches
are stupid ass. Ye whose
who are acting out some fantasy that they're not equipped to
ever achieve, which is to be a Bruce Arians Mike. I don't
disagree with any of that. I mean it again, it goes back to
your right? The taunting thing the look of it.
Yes, it's impressionable on coaches.
It's not a good look for anything for just, hey,
the head man in charge. He's physically abusing one of
the employees. That's basically why I wear. We just know that's
a line. That's not cross any more.
But again, I do think than any other work do I know. Again?
I do think football world's different and it's unlike any
other workplace I get it.
And, you know, again, I just, I guess where I have a little bit
of a soft side as I am old school. That way, you know,
damn Bill Parcells is part of my life.
And I grew up, you know, in here in North Jersey where
Vince, Lombardi's from the area every High School coach tries
to be like that. We know, Vince Lombardi certainly grab some
face. Mask is face masks and probably push them guys around
a little bit of times.
It's just, that's where it's a little different. But yes,
I think the real point is what you're talking about, what
the League's trying to do, where the world is right now,
that's where it's just not acceptable anymore.
We got to go to break. But let me say this again. If you
haven't heard me say it before, one of the reasons that
I constantly, Like constantly work and go and go and go is
because I remember when I was 10 years old and I was loafing
at
football practice, the coach kicked me in the ass. Now.
Now do I have I benefited from that in
significant ways.
Yes.
Am I still scarred by being kicked in the ass? Has a 10
year old kid by a grown-up. Yes. So
that's the balance folks.
That's, you know, there's so I think there's some people out
there who were part of the old school football on
the receiving end, who still remember it very vividly. Idli,
all these years later.