Would I like to see Flip peel the hide off some guys? Sure. But like I said, this franchise enabled the players to feel this way. Joe hired Flip as the right guy for these guys, at this point and time. Maybe he is, I don't know. But I look at the guys on this team and see at least a few who probably have to fail before they listen to anybody.

ahb, if we're going to speculate that Flip is the only difference between last year's gutty performers and this year's bunch, don't we also have to remember the difference between last year and the year before? A championship. That's what worries me, the diminishing returns. This team hasn't handled success as well as it handled being the underdog.