“I have connections as well around this league and I hear another side of that story, that there were some players on that defense that didn’t want to work,” Eagles legend and former ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski said during an appearance on Philadelphia radio station WIP. “[They] didn’t want to put the time in, didn’t want to put the effort in, didn’t want to make the commitment to be successful.
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“Guys like to party at night and South Beach is really a great place to party,” he continued [via SI.com], “And Vic tried to get those guys and push those guys to become harder workers and better athletes, and more committed to their team. And he couldn’t get through to those guys. Those were the guys that Vic was pushing and they’re the guys that are whining right now.”
Jaworski is a long-time friend of Fangio’s, so obviously his thoughts come with some bias. However, it does offer an interesting insight from the coach’s perspective and would not be a stunning reason for such a respected coach’s time with the team to shockingly end after just one productive season.
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