For The Good Of The team

Ten weeks into the NFL season the New York Giants were already labeled Super Bowl finalist. Now with two weeks to go, they are home wondering what might have been.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that can relate to their plight and we have to look no further than right here in Rocky Mount at the football Gryphons.

Unlike the Giants, the Gryphons were as close to having every player healthy in the game as possible considering they were playing their 15th game of the season.

The Giants, however, played without their best pass receiver who thought he was above the law and paid a price for stupidity.

Discipline and how you deal with it can tear your team apart. You have to give Tom Coughlin credit he did what he had to do for the future of the New York Giants.

The short run his team suffered and lacked and outside game and was quickly eliminated from the NFL playoffs.

The future, however ,will be better. A cancer in the name of Plaxico Burress has been removed. I heard on the NFL shows that Burris had been fined 25 times last season for being late to meetings.
Burris thought he was above the team by missing meetings and above the law by carrying an unregistered gun which he shot himself with and luckily, not someone else.

I doubt that you will see Burress in the NFL next year. First of all, because he will probably be in jail. If some how he escapes and gets probation, the iron hand of the NFL will more than likely make him sit next year.

The Giants will have the off season to find a wide receiver to replace Burress. Most importantly, everyone else will see that they the Giants will not put up with undisciplined actions and the organization will be better for it.

Next year at this time: We will be able to see whether they are a better organization or another team that missed a great opportunity.

The Dallas Cowboys are the national medias darlings. They have an owner instead of sitting in his luxury box and being the owner would rather stand on the sidelines and coach the team in front of the TV cameras.

Jerry Jones is more concerned about keeping the Dallas Cowboys in the news. The worst thing to happen to Jerry Jones was he won rather quickly for a couple of years after he became owner of the Cowboys.

Jimmy Johnson who could coach left because Jerry Jones thought he had all the answers. He became the owner, head coach, and team spokesman. Since Johnson left him they have slowly deteriorated into a team that has not won a playoff game in more than a decade.

When management doesn't have discipline who is going to show the players on the field the correct way.

Next year let's watch and see if the Giants come right back to the status they were the first ten games of the season. Then let's watch and see if the Cowboys are any more than a media machine. They are always in front of the cameras and willing to sacrifice discipline for media hype.

If you don't have discipline yourself, how can you expect those that cash your checks to act any differently than you?

I think as long as Jerry Jones is the owner of the Cowboys they will always be the headline on SportsCenter.

Twenty years from now they will be the Oakland Raiders. A team that use to be.