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RUSH: Before I get to Tom Coughlin, and the Phoenix Suns, did you see — you know, Johnny Manziel obviously does not want to play for the Cleveland Browns anymore. The second to last Sunday of the season he started and played. I forget who the Browns opposed. But he reported Wednesday after the game, which is the first workday for NFL players after a Sunday game. They have to go in on Monday for injury treatment and whatever, but Tuesday\u2019s an off day, so Wednesday is actually the first day of work. He showed up and said he had a concussion. Well, that\u2019s all you have to do in the NFL today.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t even have to have one. All you have to do is say you\u2019ve got one and they\u2019ll stop everything and put you in the concussion protocol, because everybody\u2019s looking at concussions. The movie and all the attention on head injuries and so forth. So a player shows up and reports, “Hey, man, hey, I got a concussion,” stop everything, put \u2019em in a concussion protocol. And they announced, the Browns announced the next day that because Johnny Manziel was in a concussion protocol, which is the medical required behavior for each team after a player is confirmed to have had a concussion, he would not be playing in the season\u2019s final game against the Steelers on Sunday.<\/p>\n


\nAnd immediately some in the Drive-By sports media said, “Wait just a minute.” If anybody else had claimed they had a concussion, there would be instant sympathy, compassion, concern, but since it was Manziel, a lot of people in the media didn\u2019t believe him, thought he was making it up and faking it. And Saturday he was reported to be in Las Vegas<\/a> at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. People that work there claimed they saw Manziel. This ends up being reported on the Sunday NFL pregame shows. They don\u2019t like Manziel in the NFL sports media for a host of reasons. He parties too much and whatever they don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

It was further discovered that Manziel was wearing a blond wig and a mustache trying to disguise himself at Planet Hollywood, but he screwed up because when it came time to pay his bill he asked that the bill be comped \u2019cause he\u2019s a star and put on his room charge, which was also comped, \u2019cause he\u2019s a star. He\u2019s not comped because he\u2019s a star. He\u2019s comped because he goes out there and blows a lot of money so they want to keep him coming and so they give him the room, whatever, that\u2019s the way they work.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that led to curiosity, he was discovered, and he\u2019d even tried to fake that he was in Cleveland on Saturday night by posting a picture of himself on the floor with his dog and geotagging the picture as Avon, Ohio, the Cleveland suburb where he supposedly lives. So, anyway, that\u2019s the thing with Manziel.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Tom Coughlin announced that he\u2019s leaving the New York Giants<\/a> amidst some confusion. It\u2019s obvious to me he did not want to leave the New York Giants, but the New York Giants think for a host of reasons they need to make a change. So he was the good soldier and said he was moving on, but he let it be known that he wanted to coach again. He\u2019s maybe not through. He\u2019s just 69 years old, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in good shape. Hadn\u2019t been to a playoff game. They\u2019ve either won the Super Bowl twice in the last seven years or they have not won a playoff game outside of that. There\u2019s a dearth of playoff appearances and victories, so they\u2019ve got to move on.<\/p>\n

At his farewell press conference at the Giants\u2019 facility yesterday, a reporter said, “What has your reaction been to all the players who have social media and said some beautiful things about you over the last day? What are your feelings about those guys and what do they mean to you?”<\/p>\n

Now, listen to this answer, \u2019cause what triggered this answer was the reporter asking about social media. Coughlin doesn\u2019t do it. He doesn\u2019t understand it. He doesn\u2019t want and didn\u2019t want social media anywhere near the sideline during games. The NFL doesn\u2019t permit it. Listen to his answer.<\/p>\n

COUGHLIN: Whether they participate in the social media or not, they\u2019re all very, very special people in our lives because, you know, side by side we\u2019re hooked together for life. Yeah, it takes some accomplishment to get it done, but it\u2019s more about the sacrifice and the day in and day out grind, getting to know people, knowing who they are, how consistently they are, they perform, how tough are they, how tough are they. We\u2019ve lost a little bit of that in our game. I got a toothache, I\u2019m out of the game. What? You got a what? A stiff neck? I got a stiff neck 24 hours a day every day of my life. What the hell has that got to do with playing?<\/p>\n

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\nRUSH: That, to me, folks, was fascinating. “I got a toothache, Coach, I can\u2019t play. I got a stiff neck, Coach, I can\u2019t play.” He said, “We\u2019ve lost some toughness in our game.” We\u2019ve lost a little bit. There\u2019s no question. Now, the NFL is still — don\u2019t let anybody tell you it\u2019s powder puff. It isn\u2019t. The way it\u2019s play, it can\u2019t possibly be. It\u2019s a game for manliness and men. But even the NFL has been overwhelmed and overtaken by the culture of Millennialism. I touched on this yesterday when I talked about how we\u2019re losing moral authority and there aren\u2019t any guardrails anymore. There doesn\u2019t seem to be any bottom on bad behavior. And even where you would normally find adults, adult representatives, people of some age and experience who would, by virtue of have some wisdom, doesn\u2019t seem to exist anymore.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t see anybody go anywhere for wisdom because everybody\u2019s been overtaken by this culture of “me, me, me,” and how I feel and how my feelings justify everything that I do, and don\u2019t you dare criticize me, and don\u2019t you dare hurt my feelings, and don\u2019t you dare do anything that might be uncomfortable, don\u2019t you dare, I might cry, make me upset, I don\u2019t want to be upset, I shouldn\u2019t have to be upset, which seems to be the rallying cry of Millennials. Don\u2019t upset me! I don\u2019t have to be upset. I don\u2019t want to be upset. Don\u2019t microaggress me. Whatever it is. So Coughlin at 69 I think is referencing that.<\/p>\n

When I had this story yesterday, I didn\u2019t get to it, I intended to, but it dovetails now. It\u2019s from a website called Yardbarker.com<\/a>. “The Phoenix Suns are having one of the more disappointing seasons in the NBA this year. After a surprising 48-win 2013-14 campaign, the team suffered a setback last season, and have really taken a dive in 2015-16.<\/p>\n

“The team is currently on a nine-game losing streak, which includes losses to the Denver Nuggets, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Sacramento Kings, and most recently, a 20-point blowout to the Los Angeles Lakers. Times are not good in Phoenix. What could possibly be the reason for the Suns\u00c2\u2019 troubles this year? Team owner Robert Sarver thinks it\u00c2\u2019s ‘millennial culture.\u2019<\/p>\n


\n“Sarver used Markieff Morris as an example, saying that Morris hasn\u00c2\u2019t been able to shake off his brother\u00c2\u2019s departure from the team from July of 2015. ‘I\u00c2\u2019m not sure it\u00c2\u2019s just the NBA,\u2019 Sarver said to The Arizona Republic. ‘My whole view of the millennial culture is that they have a tough time dealing with setbacks, and Markieff Morris is the perfect example. He had a setback with his brother in the offseason and he can\u00c2\u2019t seem to recover from it. … I\u00c2\u2019m not sure if it\u00c2\u2019s the technology or the instant gratification of being online. But the other thing is, I\u00c2\u2019m not a fan of social media,\u2019 Sarver said. ‘I tell my kids it\u00c2\u2019s like Fantasy Land. The only thing people put online are good things that happen to them, or things they make up. And it creates unrealistic expectations. We\u00c2\u2019ve had a number of setbacks this year that have taken their toll on us, and we haven\u00c2\u2019t been resilient. Therefore, it\u00c2\u2019s up to our entire organization to step up their game.'”<\/p>\n

Well, what is this setback? What happened with Markieff Morris and his brother? Well, they got rid of him. His brother was no longer on the team. He was unable to deal with it. “Oh, my God, I lost my brother. I can\u2019t get up. I lost my brother.” Brother\u2019s still alive playing somewhere else, just not on the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n

I understand these comments about social media. I have been concerned about this from the first days I became aware of it. When I saw people just openly volunteering every morsel of information about their lives, giving up any pretense of privacy, just vomiting practically online everything because they wanted fame. They wanted followers. They wanted to be known, and they wanted to think of themselves as famous. They get 10 or 15 people following them and they get this illusion that they\u2019re stars \u2019cause everybody wants to be a star because the way the media treats entertainment stars, oh, what a life, boy, that looks great, nothing ever goes wrong, all the money, all the partying, all the great possessions, all the great friends, everybody loves you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the picture they see. They all want to get part of it, so they create online these identities of themselves where they are living that kind of life. And they brag about it and tell everybody about it, and it\u2019s mostly made up. And even the lives of these successful stars are not how they\u2019re portrayed. Those people are just as miserable as anybody else. They have ups and downs just like anybody else. It\u2019s just the media doesn\u2019t report on those unless it\u2019s unavoidable, \u2019cause the media wants access.<\/p>\n

The media slavishly… The media is a bunch of groupies, entertainment media. I mean, they get to go to these parties under the auspices of covering them, but at least they\u2019re there and are rubbing elbows. So they\u2019re not gonna be critical of it. So a totally false impression is created in impressionable people. So everybody ends up lying about themselves in social media and online. And when real setbacks happen, they\u2019re not able to deal with it, \u2019cause they don\u2019t… I mean, not only are they not able to deal with it, they don\u2019t think they should have to.<\/p>\n


\nThey shouldn\u2019t be… It\u2019s what all this college campus rot is all about. They don\u2019t want to hear things that upset them, be it anything they disagree with or anything that might slightly offend. They don\u2019t want to hear it. They shut people up. “They\u2019re making me nervous,” and so forth. It\u2019s childish, spoiled rotten childish. But it\u2019s not just the kids. I mean, my point is we have adults now who have been raised with that culture, who have now assumed positions of responsibility and authority where you would expect some wisdom and the ability to offer guidance to some of these people and push them to man up, advance their maturity or whatever.
\nBut they\u2019re… Well, there are fewer and fewer people capable of this. It\u2019s almost like we\u2019re two generations deep into this total, “No, I don\u2019t want to talk! It makes me nervous. I hear people yelling. I don\u2019t like yelling. Turn it off! Turn it off! I don\u2019t want to hear it!” Mom runs over, turns it off.
\n“Sorry! Sorry, Little Jimmy! I don\u2019t want you to be upset. That\u2019s right, I don\u2019t want you to be upset. You can\u2019t handle it, can\u2019t handle it.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got adults now with that attitude. And the guidance counselors, teachers, coaches, you name it… And Coughlin says, “You got a toothache and you can\u2019t play? Come on!” I know people in my day played with a broken leg. Jack Youngblood, Los Angeles Rams, Super Bowl, Steelers, 1980, played with a broken leg! “That wasn\u2019t very smart.” Well, he still did it. He wanted to play. It was the last chance he was gonna be in the Super Bowl. He\u2019s the kind of guy who would never take a day off for a toothache, as Coughlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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