Sooner or later, every team gets one… and one is usually all it takes to ruin a good team.
Ask any coach that’s been around for a few seasons and they’ll tell you in a hurry that a selfish player wanting to play by their own set of rules and ignore the standard of conduct the rest of the team adheres to can poison a team.
The most recent example of this type of behavior was announced today when the Denver Broncos suspended Brandon Marshall for the rest of the preseason for insubordination.
Coach Josh McDaniels met with Marshall Friday morning and informed him he was being suspended for conduct detrimental to the team after exhibiting open acts of insubordination Wednesday on the practice field.
What was this disruptive display? The list is long and coach McDaniels had finally had enough.
Marshall was held out of the Broncos' preseason game at Seattle on Sunday night after admitting he didn't know the playbook and then to make matters worse, on Wednesday, Marshall was walking when the rest of the team was running during warmups, purposley punting the ball away instead of handing it to a ball boy and swatting away a pass that was thrown to him.
Marshall said during an ESPN interview Thursday night that "I'm not out there trying to be a distraction to the team.”
Oh really?
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