If you could give the Skins a pep talk....

I'd just tell them to relax, stop thinking so much and play football like you have been doing since you were 10.

you do realize that that's just a tv show right?

You're point? Doesn't mean it is a bad idea. Actually I think Matty is right. No pep talk ever given won a game. I tend to think the idea that pep talks really inspire is more of a tv-land idea. No one ever played well because someone got them pumped up. I am dubious of the effect of pep talks. Guys either want to play hard or they don't. Maybe a pep talk gets them going but no guy is sitting there in the middle of the fourth quarter thinking "Gee that pep talk has really got me going right now. if it weren't for that great pep talk I'd be going through the motions right now."

I'd just tell them to relax, stop thinking so much and play football like you have been doing since you were 10.

I feel like they are playing football like 10 year olds right now.

I feel like they are playing football like 10 year olds right now.

Did I say they should play football like 10 year olds?

Did I say they should play football like 10 year olds?

I don't think FRPLG is saying that you said that

You're point? Doesn't mean it is a bad idea. Actually I think Matty is right. No pep talk ever given won a game. I tend to think the idea that pep talks really inspire is more of a tv-land idea. No one ever played well because someone got them pumped up. I am dubious of the effect of pep talks. Guys either want to play hard or they don't. Maybe a pep talk gets them going but no guy is sitting there in the middle of the fourth quarter thinking "Gee that pep talk has really got me going right now. if it weren't for that great pep talk I'd be going through the motions right now."

EVERY coach of EVERY team everywhere gives their team "their" form of a "pep talk" before and during every game. I'm pretty sure they don't think they are wasting their time. I feel confident they believe their team benefits from it, and plays better as a result of that.

Block, Tackle, Throw, Run and Catch the damn ball!

Make something happen!

Damn it!

I've heard some pep talks that have gotten me pretty pumped up. It might not last the whole game, but at least when I run out there on the field I am running with some serious passion.

I think a pep talk kind of builds momentum, just like a game-changing play, and the team has to take that momentum, and keep building off of it, if it's going to do anything with that pep talk.

you think washington is negative? hahaha

The pressure here is nothing compared to New York, Philly, New England and so on. They turn on those teams so fast it makes your head spin.