Jamie McLennan

If it's your room and your team, you've got to drag a guy out of there.

Drag him.

But if he's willing to give it up or leave, then his commitment needs to be in question, right?

Because...

That's really what it comes down to.

If it's your room, your team, your passion, your obsession, your goal, I'm winning and I'm winning here.

The only way I'm out of here is if you drag me out.

That is the flip side of what I think is important here.

Well, and that is reasonable.

Or at least contemplate the idea.

Here's what I would say, and you say this all the time.

You have one career.

It's your life.

You have one career.

That has to be applied here.

If we're going to apply it to the other 31 markets, it's got to be applied here.

To be fair to Matthews or anybody else,

I would say, and I've made this point many times with all these core players here, they never went through a dark period.

This team put Austin Matthews on a pedestal the second he got here and said, you're in the playoffs.

Go show us what you got for nine years.