… I have the mind-set now — and I hope every player and every coach on that team sees this — if you don’t give a damn, why should I? “To me, either the message is getting lost or not being given, or the players just don’t listen to the message anymore,” Mitchell said. When I talk about sports, I don’t care what sport it is, if you don’t know baseball, you don’t know basketball. “And as leaders, we should trickle it down to the guys who don’t know how to prepare. Is the issue instead that the Redskins don’t have enough good players — to dominate when they’re healthy and to survive when they’re not?

Source: Washington Post December 11, 2017 01:47 UTC