I have no complaint about a coach that instills discipline on a team, but M$Ms form of fake displine is unfortunetly all too common in the NFL. The league basically has been reduced down to three types of coaches; the player's coach, the game manager, and the exterior tough fake disciplinarian. M&M, of course, is the fake disciplinarian.
These fake disciplinarian coaches all have several things in common. Most noticable of these characteristics is the "all bark and no bite" routine. They try to act old-school tough with a mean-looking face as they scowl up and down the sidelines while the affletes they coach act like complete bafoons on and off the field. Bill Cower and John Gruden immediately come to mind. Strangely these "tough-guys" can never bring themselves from really benching or even chewing out their mis-behaving error-making affletes. They will, however, not hesitate to sit and/or publicly humilate any non-franchise "white boy." Scenes of Bill Schroeder getting royally chewed-out by occasional tough-guy Mike Holmgren come to mind as well as the overall treatment of Matt Jones by another tough-guy, Jack Del Rio. I could list a assortment of others, but why bother - not enough time in the day.
Another characteristic of these fake disciplinarians is how quickly these tough-guys seek the approval and man-love of their atheletes. Whether it's Bill Cower's rough exterior and jutting out lower mandible melting away to give a loving kiss to said afflete or a John Gruden chest bump with an afflete, their tough-guy exterior melts away in moments of metrosexualness that would make Perez Hilton squirm with envy. I haven't watched M&M much this year, but my guess is that he has already melted away to display similar affrolete man-love.
The current situation in Denver is a perfect example of fake displinarian "laying down the smack" the only way a fake displinarian can. Jay Cutler is gone, Tony Scheffler is benched, and Peyton Hillis is either misteriously listed as non-injury related inactive or just plan old inactive without an official listed. Meanwhile, Brandon Marshall's behavior is gingerly scolded by the "tough" love act of a preseason benching followed by a "fake" benching at the end of the season. I guess Marshall still doesn't respect M&M even after an entire season where the offense seemed devoted to Marshall's stardom including the gift of the single game reception record. A kiss unreturned. How tragically sad.
What needs to be realized about this week is that Marshall had already taken himself out of this week's game before M&M laid down the pseudosmack. With his ego reeling, M&M had to bolster his tough-guy image by quickly finding the nearest white-boy (Sheffler) to bench. The reason for Shefflers benching? Apparently, he had been rumored to be dissatified with his role, or lack thereof, in the offense and had made the remarks to other players in locker room conversation. How dare he not accept his role like a good little white soldier! Never mind that afflete Elvis Dumervill is also dissatified with things in Denver or that Brandon Marshall has played the entire season with blatant dissatifaction. Thus, the only real punishment was once again only doled out to a white atlete - he's the only one that was truly benched. An act of true coward. Makes me wonder how long it will be before boy-wonder verbally assaults the kicker. At least this implosion will be fun to watch unlike the Denver offense.
