Sure, high-schoolers, and some college football players, can be conditioned by football coaches not to question. But grown men? Grown men can smell a phony from three yards away.
“After his apology, I’m sure some of them will forgive him. And some of them won’t,” Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Rickey Jackson said Thursday in a phone interview when asked about Broncos coach Vic Fangio, and about how his players wrestle with their coach making national headlines.
“And some of them will keep in the back of their minds what was said. Eventually, if he’s the right person for them, they’ll forgive him and go on.