Vikings' Anthony Barr admits it: Sometimes he just didn't try very hard

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@StickyBun said:

Yeah, I was talking about posters in the thread making excuses for poor effort, not Zulgad. 

Poor effort, Zulgad has that in spades.

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I remember Zimmer saying that at the time and kind of scratching my head. Probably a good thing that Barr is "agreeing" with the assessment. I like Barr as a player, hopefully he plays big this year.

This is yet another vague, somewhat weird story about what the heck was going on behind the scenes last year with this team. Let's hope this year we are more steady and less of a roller coaster.

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Zulgad is a putz. Coaches can't coach up effort. Either you want to play in this league or you don't. NFL players shouldn't have to be coddled to coax out effort; it should be innate in them to be ultra competitive and self-motivated.

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@"BarrNone55" said:
100% effort at all times is bare minimum requirement...

John Wooden had a quote that went something like, "You can't give 50% today and 150% tomorrow because 150% is impossible.  You have to give 100% every day."