Haley tore into Bowe early in Sunday's win over the Redskins, urging Bowe to pick up his game and threatening to trade Bowe if he didn't.

Wait, I thought this type of thing didn't help motivate players..

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/19/trade-threat-turned-the-light-on-for-dwayne-bowe/ 

Point is, players respond to being challenged and held accountable.. most players have built in pride in themselves, well at least the player you want on your team.

"pack93z" wrote:

Well......who knows how Mike McCarthy is behind closed doors. Just because we don't see him chewing out guys in front of us doesn't mean he isn't doing it.

My belief is, he doesn't want to start calling guys out in public.
Of course i don't KNOW it for sure, but i bet thats how it is.

"Cheesey" wrote:

The "Has been out awhile" statement is not even a quote. It's something that the journalist added, paraphrasing McCarthy. I'll give McCarthy the benefit of the doubt, since we don't have the complete context of his statements.

I agree with evad04 that we don't gain much by analyzing McCarthy's comments in press conferences. The continued poor play of the O-line, however, is very real and is cause for great concern. I think we can all agree on that.

"Greg C." wrote:

(What do you think happened with Chad on the false starts and the one play he was late coming off the ball?)
I haven't spoken to him personally about it, so I can't really answer that. They're pre-snap penalties. He's played a lot of football here. He was cheating the line of scrimmage in pass situations and got himself in trouble on the illegal formations. Was it close? Yeah, I'm sure it was close. The film showed it. But you can't have four pre-snap penalties. He's been out for a couple of weeks, and hopefully he'll learn from this. I couldn't answer your question. I haven't talked to him specifically.