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Originally Posted by Daseal
Does this mean Jon Jansen isn't a team guy? Didn't he throw Sean Taylor under the bus on draft day? At least TO made remarks about a game, Jansen got nasty with the man's personal life.
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Which one of them is at Redskins Park working out with his team? That should tell you who the team guy is right there.
Jon Jansen is the longest-tenured Redskin player and a team captain. He has a right to call out teammates if he feels they're letting their teammates down, either on the field or off of it. In fact, I'd say as a senior leader of the team, he has a responsibility to his teammates to promote the rules and principles the coach has laid-out as a roadmap for his team. What was one of the first admonitions Coach Gibbs made to his players when he gathered them for their first team meeting? "Don't embarrass the Redskins."
Sean Taylor put himself in a position to be arrested for DUI in the middle of the season, and make a public mockery of Gibbs' behavior policy. Whether he was found innocent of the charges or not is immaterial at this point (do you think you or I would have escaped those charges so easily?). The damage was done when Taylor was arrested, and that event was the direct result of Taylor's immaturity, irresponsibility and lack of accountability.
As for TO, I don't think his comments about McNabb even remotely resemble any form of leadership, or promote team unity, or reinforce the principles of the coach. Owens might be a veteran and an established star in the league, but you don't enhance team chemistry by spending less than a year with a team before calling out its most popular and affable player, and holding out for a new contract. That's not being a team player, and it's sure as hell not leadership.