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Message: [QUOTE="Jake, post: 5688202, member: 86"] I have no doubt that Red put his finger on the problem with this team. They lack intensity and toughness. I do not think it’s a lack of talent. Having said that, the real job of a head coach is to illicit peak performance from their players. And with that comes effort, intensity, and resilience. A trademark going back to his first year, has been the fact that Reds teams seem to, at some point, just give up. Some of that I believe is just red’s innate personality. It’s hard for him to be a bad guy. But it manifests in his reluctance to punish players for bad decisions and lack of hustle, by yanking them, explaining why he yanked them and then the letting them see what he wants. [/QUOTE]