Carson Palmer explains why Bruce Arians could coach players brutally hard without losing them
“It’s not for everybody, for sure. You either can take it or you can’t. At the end of the day, your ego’s too big where it just frustrates you and you storm out of the room or have a conversation with him that probably gets you cut.”
“But at the end of the day, even if you’re being called a name that makes you feel lower than low, even if he’s embarrassing you in front of the media or in front of your teammates, if the guy’s right and you’re incorrect, it kind of just is okay.”
“Because he wouldn’t do it unless you screwed up. He wouldn’t do it just because he felt like taking a shot at somebody.”
“He would do it when you lined up two yards outside the numbers and you were supposed to be three yards inside the numbers, or you went in short motion at half speed and you were supposed to go in short motion at full speed.”
“So when you’re getting MF’d up and down and berated and you’re wrong, in the NFL locker room it’s okay.”
“If he’s wrong and he doesn’t admit and say, ‘Hey, my bad, I yelled at you on the field, but now I’m watching this in the film...’ But he didn’t. He was never wrong.”
“So he got on you, he was hard on you, but it’s because you deserved it. So it was okay, and it didn’t linger in guys. It didn’t fester in guys and become a bigger issue later.”