Tiki takes (another) shot at Coughlin

[Joe Public]

I suppose I know the answer to this, but why the f**k won't Tiki Barber just shut the f**k up?

"The recently retired star running back has used his new memoir to rip Big Blue boss Tom Coughlin, blaming his former head coach for driving him from the game he loved. "[Coughlin] robbed me of what had been one of the most important things I had in my life, which was the joy I felt playing football," Barber wrote. "I had lost that. He had taken it away.""

The quote is from the Daily News, but they seem to have moved the article as it doesn't come up on their site. I pulled the above from SI.com.

 

[frankiegotti]

tiki reminds me of the old girlfriend that always talks trash on her old boyfriend because she won't get anything better but people listen to her anyways.

I don't know what tiki's problem is, he has never been a outspoken type of person.

I wonder if he is publishing a book usually people make comments like this when they are writing a book.

 

[C-Gold]

What a cocksucker...

A player of that talent should be a leader, not a quite guy who tries to come off classy and then all of a sudden throws his coaches and Quarterback under the bus... buy plays a whole selfish retirement tour for his last year like a drama queen.

If you took away the name " tiki barber" and replaced with with Shockey or Plax, it seems a lot more in line, but it was Barber. I like Rhonde a whole hell of a lot more.

- Eli is a quiet introverted guy
- Shockey is an emotional, "me" kind of guy
- Plax, is a " Me" guy in the mold of TO or Meshaun johnson
- You would expect the 1,000 yard back from the good college to take a leadership role, but he stays quiet and every so often blames the coach...

Oh, and by the way, Tiki had his best and most productive years under coach couglin. Not only did he increase productivity, make the playoffs 2/3 years, but he magically lost his horrible fumbling problem that plagued him his entire career pre-coughlin. Nice way to thank your coach and quarterback.

They said on wallstreet or some NY bar they showed Tikis face on the big screen and everybody booed. They said there is no " I " in team, but there are two "I's in Tiki.

What a cock smoker.

 

[BlitzBandit]

tiki had his best years with Coughlin.. he should be more appreciative...


can't wait to see what Jacobs does with Coughlin... Coughlin does bring the best out of the running backs.

 

[B.A.R.]

What a douche...

just trying to make money and hype for the book

 

[BlitzBandit]

ha... looks like we were thinking the same thing CG... only you beat me to the punch.. haha.

 

[Joe Public]

I like Rhonde a whole hell of a lot more.

It's so weird, I was just thinking this over the weekend. Like, 'huh, they're identical twins, but Ronde's just so much cooler, why is that.'

I then realized that it's because Tiki won't take his mug out of a Joe's grill.

I still think Coughlin sucks, but Tiki just continues to prove what a complete and total jackass he is.

 

[C-Gold]

Rhodes seems more slick. He was in the booth ( maybe a monday night game), talking with Kornholesier when he was injured and i liked him. He said Tiki was always the over achiever, and I guess was a validictorian in highschool.

Tiki just seems fake to me now. He seems like he wants to get in front of the camera and say whatever the hell will make him the most money, get him the most attention etc.

The whole tiki retirement tour was freaking lame. I like Brett Favre, but I can totally see why the whole " i might retire" thing would piss them off.

Tiki wanted to retire to pull a robert smith.

I totally respect robert smith and I think he pulled it off the right way. Tiki just looks like this self absorbed deuche bag, and you know he wants the giants to suck next year and have all the announcers talk about how " missed" he will be.

from a leadership standpoint, I think Jacobs is a better leader. He starts trucking people over and gets hyped. It sort of reminds you of that shockey effect the first year, where when you get him going, he gets the whole team going... I can totally see Jacobs teammates getting hyped after he is dragging 4 guys along for a ride, and then gets up pumped up.

 

[BlitzBandit]

I can totally see Jacobs teammates getting hyped after he is dragging 4 guys along for a ride, and then gets up pumped up.

Hell Yeah!.. I'm pumped just thinking about it..

:smiley_acbe:

 

[BlitzBandit]

the funny thing is, there will be times when he gets tripped up and maybe even gets solo tackled... that will be when all those Jacob doubters and haters (like tiki) will be saying "I told you so". They won't even acknowledge the times he will drag half the defense with him for four extra yards...

as we mentioned before, I'd rather have ten 5 yard runs than one 50 yarder and nine no gainers.

 

[C-Gold]

I understand the preseason is full of vanilla defenses etc., but your not going to go half speed when your trying to tackle somebody.

Jacobs was running poetically dragging guys in the preseason, and he did it last year too.

I believe Ray Lewis said that he is the hardest running back in the entire league to break down. He's the freaking size of some of those offensive lineman. The back he reminds me to the most, is a bigger angrier eddie george in his prime.

I saw part of the Jets preseason game, and he smacked a linebacker in the hole ( first contact), and the NFL LINEBACKER just bounced off him like a pinball, and Jacobs proceeded on to pick up an additional 5 yards.

Tattle tail tiki would have been slamed down on the first hit, but big brandon kept trucking along.

the preseason might not be an accurate representation of nfl defenses, but it is full speed, and people are not trying to get taken for a ride when tackeling.

watch out for the Brandon Jacobs express. I loved watching him make a special teams takle and then start pushing the opponenets.

 

[Joe Public]

I totally respect robert smith and I think he pulled it off the right way.

I completely agree. I respect this guy, and even Barry Sanders, more and more with each passing year.

 

[C-Gold]

the funny thing is, there will be times when he gets tripped up and maybe even gets solo tackled... that will be when all those Jacob doubters and haters (like tiki) will be saying "I told you so". They won't even acknowledge the times he will drag half the defense with him for four extra yards...

as we mentioned before, I'd rather have ten 5 yard runs than one 50 yarder and nine no gainers.

exactly, sure, tiki making long runs is great, but what about the other times when he gets nothing?

a whole lot of 3rd and 9's and 1 long run aren't as good as...
a whole lot of 3rd and 4's, minus the long run.

and I wouldn't put it past bj to make long runs too. People think only these " speed backs" can have long runs... once you get past the front 7, or 11 defenders, you don't need to run a 4.1 to get lots of yards. Sometimes all you need to do is get past the point of attack and go.

A 4.7 guy running full speed will not get caught by a 4.5 guy who is running the opposite direction, has to stop, turn, re-accelerate.

shit, even Dwayne jarret and his 4.7 40 was running right past Leon Hall and his 4.4 in the bowl game last year.

 

[C-Gold]

I totally respect robert smith and I think he pulled it off the right way.

I completely agree. I respect this guy, and even Barry Sanders, more and more with each passing year.

I lost my respect for Tiki.

Robert Smith quit because he wanted to " do more important things", I think part of Barry quitting was that the Lions were absolutly horrible.

I do think that Barry was one of the ultimate boom/bust backs, and that he is overrated for that reason. I would rather have a cloud of dust back, and the best one of those was Jim Brown. My #1 RB of alltime.

 

[Joe Public]

Well, you're not going to get any argument from me on Jim Brown. In my opinion he's the best football player of all time, not just RB.

I don't actually put Barry on the same level as RS, but I will say I do respect him more now than I did when he retired.

His wasn't pure like Smith's, Smith was very calculated, measured, it was as if he did a risk analysis and decided, for no one but himself and his family, that it wasn't worth it.

I thought that was very noble. I still do.

Barry's was a power struggle, much like Jim Brown's actually. But I think Barry really could have wiggled his way back into the league and onto another team if he tried. And he hasn't really carped about how it all went down. So for that I respect the guy's ability to say, 'it didn't work out, I'll walk away.'

Because most players have to be dragged from the game.

 

[C-Gold]

I don't think it is humanly possible for a RB to be the most valued person on the field. Not even close.

No other position on the field is even close to as important as the QB, and especially in todays NFL with the NFL being a passing league.

The best QBs ever are Montana, Young, Elway, Tarkenton, etc. and soon to be Brady, and Manning.