Popeyejones
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^^^ I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm relaying what 9ers beat reporters have been saying and suggesting that to me at least it sounds like you might want to listen to that whole press conference before mischaraterizing him as petulant based off a single quote. He's really night-and-day with harbaugh.
Here's the transcript to the interview:
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/jim-toms ... nd-racing/
I mean, just two examples from the very same session, but this is the guy who is petulant with reporters? :lol:
The guy who is going into detail about how he wants to give them all the info he can and explaining when he won't and is apologizing to them for moving practice times (while explaining why) as it relates to their commutes is a petulant phony?
There's tons of things to criticize him about, but this one totally, totally misses the mark.
Here's the transcript to the interview:
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/jim-toms ... nd-racing/
I mean, just two examples from the very same session, but this is the guy who is petulant with reporters? :lol:
The guy who is going into detail about how he wants to give them all the info he can and explaining when he won't and is apologizing to them for moving practice times (while explaining why) as it relates to their commutes is a petulant phony?
There's tons of things to criticize him about, but this one totally, totally misses the mark.
QUESTION: We’re not accustomed to such transparency with the injuries. Can you just discuss what’s behind that as far as your thinking as far as being a little more straight forward?
Tomsula: “The only time I have a problem, and this is just me, my thoughts only. As long as I don’t feel like it’s putting us at a competitive disadvantage to disclose information, I’d rather just tell you exactly what it is. What, am I going to wait for you to show up tomorrow and look out and go, ‘Oh, you didn’t tell me that.’ I personally don’t want to have those conversations. I want to tell you what it is, deal with the facts, here it is and we roll. I get it, we get into the season, we get into some sensitive times, you have to write thing that people want to read so you’ve got to ask the questions. Quite frankly, there will be times there where I’m not going to give you the answer. I’ve asked him if I can just say, ‘no comment.’ He told me that was disrespectful to you. So, we will figure out what that term is, but I’ll let you know, I’m not talking about it. Ask me in 64 ways, I’m not talking about it. I’d rather just be upfront. Right there, you’re going to be at practice tomorrow and you’re going to have three guys who aren’t going to be on the field. There it is.”
QUESTION: The schedule that you created for training camp with a little later times in the day, a couple of guys referenced today that they’ve come to you with some back and forth conversation of what might work. Could you go into that a little bit and how that back and forth went with the players to figure out the schedule?
TOMSULA: “The biggest thing with the schedule, first of all the schedule and moving it back I will apologize to the media. [Vice president of communications] Bob [Lange] brought it to my attention on traffic hours. Honestly I didn’t think of that, I didn’t. Not that it would’ve changed it. But I do want to apologize to you. But, what we’re trying to do is the meeting times in the morning, you’re up, you’re fresh. So, we’ve got meeting times, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and we’re meeting and we’re doing our thing. Then, you’ve got a walk-through. Now, being able to have film and take greater advantage of that walk-thru, with the new CBA with the way we have to practice now. So, being able to utilize that walk-through and now come back off the field, have more meetings, come back, review that, have some substance to that tape and be able to look at that, make some adjustments and talk through some things. Something always comes up in a walk-thru, so now we’re able to utilize that. So, making sure that we have that time on both sides and then we’re trying to give them a nice block in the middle of the day there to be able to lift their weights. Instead of lifting after practice all the time, there’ll still be time after practice to lift, but trying to get that up. We want to make sure that we keep the weight room and our strength and conditioning and our regeneration a major part of what we’re doing every day. That’s the whole thought process behind it. And we set that up that way and I went through the medical staff and I went through the strength and conditioning department to get that done. And I talked to the guys and we adjusted maybe a half-hour here and there and if we can do that why not. It’s a workday, we’ve all got to work, so that’s how that went.”