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Colts DC Lou Anarumo detailed how he plans to fix the team’s defense and hold players accountable. Despite not meeting all of the players yet, he has met with veteran DT DeForest Buckner, who is fed up with the lack of accountability.
“There’s definitely a fine balance between holding guys accountable and babysitting,” Buckner said, via James Boyd of The Athletic. “I got my own kids. I’m not here to babysit nobody. … That’s not my job.”
“My standard is going to be that I’m up there and I’m going to be a truth-teller. I’m going to tell them the truth,” Anarumo said. “It’s my job to say, ‘Yes, you’re doing it right,’ or ‘No, you’re doing it wrong.’ That will happen, and it will happen to all of them. I don’t care (about your) number of years in the league. Good players, great players want to be coached. They want to know the truth. … If they don’t, then there’s probably a little bit of an issue there, but the best ones I’ve ever been around (say), ‘Coach me. Coach me hard. Tell me what you want.’”
“I think every coach would say (you want good players),” Anarumo continued. “(Coaches are) not out there making tackles and getting off blocks. You’re going to have to have good players, that’s for sure. But I know this, in this league these days, guys are in and out of the lineup for several different reasons. The rosters turn over. So, you’ve got to be flexible enough as a coach to be able to work with a guy who maybe was not even on your team the week before. It’s really player acquisition time, right? Free agency, draft — those things. So, we’ve got to finalize the staffing, and then we’re going to get all the playbook stuff done, and while we’re doing that, we’re managing free agency and (scouting for the) draft. … It’ll be a busy time.”
Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker discussed bringing in newly hired GM Mike Borgonzi and how the structure of the front office will be set up between the two. Tennessee got some scrutiny from the league office because Brinker will have final say over the whole football operations department, however, the league determined it was a legitimate GM job. Brinker envisions Borgonzi being focused on the player evaluation side of the position while he acts in a support role for other parts of the job.
“To ask a general manager to come into an organization as a first-time general manager – normally, you get the job because there’s a problem,” Brinker said, via Main Street Media. “*The roster’s not in great shape. You’re not winning football (games) and a lot of general managers today you’re seeing come out of these AGM positions, and what that position is essentially doing is they’re running the pro and college scouting staffs. And they may have a few responsibilities spread in, depending on...
