He has spent a lot of time this off-season telling everyone how awesome he plans on being and how hard he’s worked, as if that is going to affect reality. His focus on garnering media attention and media favor doesn’t really bother me, but what is he going to do when the going gets rough? If he wants to sit a few plays out or jack up some stupid shots. After letting the media run stories about how awesome you’re going to be, I hope he doesn’t get upset if the media runs negative stories about him, because after all this talk he should expect a great deal of scrutiny.

Crash the boards and get your butt in the post. Those are the two things you need to do to help this team.

that’s sounds like excuses to me.