Brenston Buckner

[pantherdad]

should be the Panthers next coach, or atleast d coordinator. Just listening to him on wfnz with garcia. he tells the truth and could probably get our defense fired up. he says our missed tackles are a mental thing, and our guys have to get to the ball carrier with the mindset that "i am gonna put this clown in the dirt". my fav. Buckner quote...."its not about x's and 0's, its about the jimmys and the joes. he said its not on the coaches, the buck stops at each of those lockers, attitudes and mindsets need to change and change fast. he said he is not worried about our offense, though.

[jpniner]

uh, maybe just hire him as motivational speaker from time to time

[pantherdad]

whatever works. for some reason i can see him as a coach in the future

[Vagrant]

He certainly could do no worse than Mike Rucker.... who seems to not know the names of half the guys he played with and even less about sentence structure and how to make sense.

Mike: "What did you think about that play, Mr. Rucker".

Rucker: "Well, Jarrod Gross got him a good stop on that end play and it's about the "want to" and Jarrod put it on right there. It's good to see first team linebackers make them kind of blocks, because you know it goes from the players right down to the coaches".

[Delhommey]

its not about x's and 0's, its about the jimmys and the joes.

Man, I hope he's got the copyright on that one.

[Fiz]

Buckner as a DLine coach Day 1

Hayden: What are we going to learn today Mr. Buckner?

Irvin: The Rip move?

Buckner: No.

Hayden: How to plug the hole?

Buckner: Nope.

Leonard: How about the swim?

Buckner: Nuh uh.

Hayden: Then how are we going to get better?

Buckner: fug getting better. This is how to steal their signals and tell the rest of your team mates.

[Vagrant]

Especially Kris Jenkins. Man was it ever obvious that he knew the snap count on every other down.

[pstall]

being able to tell the truth on talk radio and being an effective communicator and teacher and getting guys to not only buy into what you are selling, but they LEARN are two dif things.

Giving good speeches/pep talks does not a leader/coach make.

[Khyber53]

Buckner was always known as a great locker room interview during his playing days. I'm just amazed he hasn't made the jump to TV yet. Someday, maybe.

As a player, Buckner was a really good DT, but not a monstrously great one. He didn't have the size or freakish strength of the great ones. What he did have was a good head on his shoulders and an absolute desire to get the better of his opponents, whatever it took. He was the master of the well-hidden hold as well as great at reading cues and signals for snap counts.

He still wasn't what qualifies as a dirty player, though. He wouldn't kick a man that was down... but he might jab him a couple of times as he fell, though.

I do miss seeing him on the field. He and Jenkins were magic on the field together.

[Matt Foley]

Buck was one of the funniest guys on the team. He would come up with putdowns that would make the whole locker room laugh and suddenly you had two or three guys on each side going back and forth.

[Fiz]

He still wasn't what qualifies as a dirty player, though. He wouldn't kick a man that was down... but he might jab him a couple of times as he fell, though.

oh come on now buckner was dirty as hell.

not to mention he held on literally every play

[pantherdad]

okay, how about some positive rep for bringing back some good memories?

[Khyber53]

Nah, dirty players harken back to the Deacon Jones and Jack Lambert days. Guys that would hold a lineman's face in the mud for a wee bit after the play was over. Guys that would try to break fingers of their opponents as they tackled them. Guys that kept a blob of Atomic Balm on their pants leg so they could get it on their fingers and then gouge people's eyes in fumble piles.

Yanno, the great ones!

Brentson held every chance he could get (and got called for it a lot in his final season), but he wasn't dirty at the epic level. Mean? Yes. Vicious? Not quite.

He ain't Haynesworth or Kreutz. But he was no Bruschi either.

[RockyTopVol]

Anything to get him off the radio. I honestly cannot understand what he's trying to say MOST of the time. I get that he isn't a radio professional and he's there to offer perspective from a former player, but his grammar is worse than a 4th grader's.