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RUSH: I have been wondering about this for the longest time. I misunderstood a question a caller was gonna ask. He asked about player discipline, and he wanted to know why would the Seahawks jump offside in the fourth quarter when all they would have had to do, they tried to create a safety. It was after the interception, and Brady was taking the snap in the end zone, and so they jumped to try to get a safety and get the ball back. In that case, I think Brady\u2019s cadence drew \u2019em off, so eager. And Michael Bennett, their best player on defense at Seattle had just been anticipating the snap all day long and had been giving Brady all kinds of trouble, so I think that was — the kind of discipline I\u2019m talking about, look at Marshawn Lynch crotch grabbing, that\u2019s one thing. <\/p>\n

This other guy Doug Baldwin scores a touchdown and pretends to drop his pants, take a dump on the football. In baseball, you have players that do not run out ground balls to first base. You got players routinely will hit a long fly ball and stand there at the plate watching, posing. It won\u2019t go out, it\u2019ll hit the wall, and instead of ending up at third base for a triple, they\u2019re barely making it back to first base on what should have been an automatic double. <\/p>\n

But in football, any of these other unsportsmanlike or taunting penalties that players get or unsportsmanlike they get for improper celebrating in the end zone. The rule is the rule. Where are coaches on this? When I was a kid and didn\u2019t run a ground ball out to first base, I got benched. I mean, I was coached, I was told, “You\u2019re gonna hustle.” I remember when I played high school football and I didn\u2019t get away with this for very long. The end of every practice was sprints. After two hours of just physical torture, here came the sprints. Sometimes they were 70 yards, sometimes 40, sometimes 65 across the field and back. And position groups ran with each other. <\/line><\/p>\n

I was an offensive tackle so I ran with the tackles and the guards, offensive linemen. I\u2019d always take a look as we\u2019re doing the sprints, I\u2019d make sure I finished in the middle of the pack. And eventually the coach would say, “First three tackles take it in.” Well, I was always one of the first three \u2019cause I had been pacing myself. So one day the coach came up and said, “Mr. Limbaugh, I notice during sprints you\u2019re always here in the middle of the pack, until it\u2019s time to go in, and then you\u2019re just beating everybody. What are you doing?” <\/p>\n

I said, “I\u2019m pacing myself, coach.” And he said, “You know, Mr. Limbaugh, in football and in life, we don\u2019t pace ourselves. We go all out all the time. So you\u2019re running 10 extra sprints for the next five practices no matter where you finish.” <\/p>\n

If I didn\u2019t run a ground ball to first base, I got yelled at, chided. I mean, this is not how we play the game. You get a ground ball, you never know, gonna throw it away, you dig and you get there as fast as you can. Don\u2019t sit there and preen and think that you\u2019re ball is gonna be thrown out. Get to the professional level. And I wouldn\u2019t think these guys would need to be coached. I don\u2019t understand professional football players who behave in immature — well, I do understand, that\u2019s the point, but why it\u2019s not coached, why it\u2019s put up with by the coaches. <\/p>\n

I understand, “Well, the players are getting all the money, and if the coach says, ‘Hey, Marshawn, stop the crotch grab.\u2019 Marshawn, ‘Screw you, buddy. If one of the two of us is gone, who do you think it\u2019s gonna be? It\u2019s gonna be you.'” I\u2019m just using him because he\u2019s a recent example. There\u2019s all kinds of players that the coaches seem to exhibit no — I mean, ridiculous 15-yard penalties that are killer penalties against a team and a player will get one for stupidest post-play behavior or whatever. Do the coaches not take these guys aside after the game and say, “One more time like that and you\u2019re not starting?” It just makes very little sense to me. So that\u2019s what I thought he meant by player discipline and the lack of it, \u2019cause there clearly is a lack of player discipline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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