NBA Dynasty Sniper

Chapter 431 Comprehensive Equals Mediocrity

Chapter 431 Comprehensive Equals Mediocrity

Zhao Donglai had known the head coach Edward before, and he was a man with a strict coaching style.

Moreover, he led the team to win the division championship last season, and his position in the team has also stabilized, with a strong right to speak.

Sure enough, Edward said in the next sentence: "Feilong, although you are a rich man and even used to be the boss here, this is a professional league and the NFL. I hope that your only identity here is a player.

I hope you can obey any arrangement of the coaching staff here, any arrangement, and implement it unconditionally. There are no billionaires here, only the player Zhao Dong, do you understand? "

"Understood." Zhao Dong said with a serious expression.

Edward nodded with a cold expression, let go of the hand he was holding, and did not speak again.

Johnson smiled apologetically: "Flying Dragon, Henman has only been with the Jets for one season, and his coaching style is very strict..."

"That's good. I didn't come to the NFL for fun. Coach Edward's attitude is also what I want to see." Zhao Dong said.

"That's good, that's good." Johnson breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't want to offend Zhao Dong. To offend Zhao Dong was to offend Mrs. Lindsay. That was someone no billionaire would want to offend.

He is just a small investor in Tianlong Investment Bank. There are at least a thousand investors in Tianlong Investment Bank at his level.

Next, Zhao Dong signed a contract with the New York Jets, $35 a year, which is the amount before tax, a standard basic salary contract.

The NFL and the NBA are different. Although the rules of the NBA are all learned from the NFL, some changes have taken place after the NBA formed its own rules.

For example, the salary cap. After learning the hard salary cap of the NFL, the NBA has come up with a soft salary cap. In recent years, there has been a luxury tax, which gives rich teams a lot of room to operate. Create a luxurious lineup with your own financial resources.

The NFL only has a hard salary cap, and no matter how rich the team and owner are, they cannot exceed the salary cap, so they cannot force a luxurious lineup.

Of course, Zhao Dong can also sign a bigger contract, but it is completely unnecessary. The bigger his contract, it will only occupy limited salary space and affect the team's lineup reinforcement. This is definitely not the result he wants.

Moreover, his current strength is third-rate. If it weren't for his status, he would not be eligible to enter the NFL at all. This contract was also requested by him.

The NFL draft this year has ended, and now it has entered the offseason. The new season will start on September 9, and the preseason will start in August. During the offseason, coaches and players are not allowed to use training base.

Of course, before the first preseason game, the league allowed the team to conduct up to 15 days of full training, but the time only started in mid-July, and it is still half a month away.

So what Zhao Dong has to do now is to discuss his position with the coaching staff, and ask the coaching staff to formulate a training plan for him, and then he will find a venue for training by himself.

There is no problem with the venue. When I went to Stony Brook University yesterday, I had already negotiated with the school, and I will train there.

In terms of coaches and trainers, he can pay for the coaches of the team or the Stony Brook school team.

After dismissing the media, Zhao Dong followed Edward and the coaching staff to a conference room, accompanied by boss Johnson and general manager Maureen Philip.

As for the media, they did not follow up and could only wait outside for news.

"Feilong, what positions have you practiced before?" After sitting down, a staff member brought coffee, Edward asked.

Zhao Dong said with a smile: "When I was at Stony Brook University, that is, after I finished basketball training, I went to the football team when I had time. I tried all positions, and my skills were relatively comprehensive."

"Comprehensive? Comprehensive equals mediocre."

Edward's face darkened. If it wasn't for Zhao Dong's identity, he would have roared at the general manager and the boss by now.

Isn't this a joke? There are only 53 official spots on the team, and each of them is useful. If someone who doesn't know anything comes in, one spot will be wasted. Will the team lose its record next season?

The NFL is not the NBA. When an NBA team gets a superstar, they have a chance to win a game, but that kind of thing never happens on a football field.

The football team is divided into a defensive group, an offensive group, and a special service group. The offensive group is responsible for offensive scoring.

Therefore, in rugby games, offense and defense are separated. No matter how strong a certain player is, it is impossible for one person to conquer the world like basketball.

A football team is like a real army. All the players are parts of this machine. If there is a problem with one position, it is likely to lead to the loss of the whole game.

So rugby cannot be like basketball. Once you get a superstar, you have a chance to win.

The area of ​​a rugby field is thirteen times that of a basketball field. It requires the cooperation of all players to play a defensive or offensive tactic. Even a superstar is only a part of it.

Zhao Dong has no skills now, but he wants to occupy a position, even if it is a substitute position, it cannot be wasted, so Edward has a headache.

Zhao Dong was also very embarrassed, and immediately said: "I can start from the bench."

"The position of the substitute is also very important." Edward said bluntly.

At this time, an old coach named Melrose who was very familiar with Zhao Dong said: "Coach Edward, although Feilong's skills are not very good, his physical condition and athletic quality are excellent. Even in the NFL, his overall quality has reached the top. In fact, there are many positions that are suitable for him.

And he's not that old, some rookies who participated in the draft only in their senior year are not much younger than him.

In addition, there are some players who play basketball in the NCAA and participate in the NFL draft, and some of them have successfully joined the NFL, so I think Feilong is just a slightly older rookie. Although he has played in the NBA for seven years, But still has the potential to play good football, and we got him at no cost, which should be something to be thankful for. "

Zhao Dong laughed when he heard this, but he felt that Melrose was right. Although his current skills are not very good and he thinks he has no strength, it does not mean that he has no confidence in himself.

Although his body has played professional basketball for seven years, the wear and tear is very small, and the ability of immunity to injuries protects his body, so now his body is still very young, and his physical condition is at its peak. He is confident that he can play well football.

Edward shook his head when he heard Meros say this: "Although Flying Dragon is only 26 years old, as you said just now, he has played professional games for seven years. Do you know his physical injuries? So he and those who are in It’s different for older rookies who play basketball in the NCAA and end up in the NFL.”

Melos was speechless when he heard that, because Zhao Dong had signed the contract directly, without undergoing a physical examination, how could he know what kind of injury Zhao Dong had?

Hearing this, Zhao Dong could only say: "It's very simple, do a physical examination, if I'm really unfit, I can choose to leave here."

"NONONO..."

Boss Johnson spit out a series of nos upon hearing this, and said to Zhao Dong: "Feilong, based on your performance in the NBA, you have never had any injuries. I believe your body is very healthy."

Speaking of this, he said to Edward very seriously: "Henman, don't say that you don't know about the performance of Dragons in the NBA. Even if you don't watch NBA games, you must have heard of them."

Edward thought for a while, nodded and said: "I'm sorry, I'm not picky, because NFL games are ten times more intense and cruel than NBA games. Every year, many players are disabled or even die due to injuries. There are constant fights, this is the battlefield, I prefer to call it the Colosseum, I don't want Feilong to cause problems under my hands."

He really didn't want Zhao Dong to be his player, it wasn't entirely because of Zhao Dong's lack of skills, there were other more important issues.

To put it simply, he couldn't bear that responsibility. In case Zhao Dong was maimed to death on and off the court, or was injured and killed, he couldn't be skinned by Mrs. Lindsay?

The NFL environment is a hundred times more barbaric than the NBA. Compared to this, the NBA is a civilized world. The most barbaric NBA players who come to the NFL are gentlemen.

Over the past century, countless NFL players have been disabled due to injuries, and after retiring, they can only lie in bed and linger.

The on-court and off-court fights in the NBA are too childish compared to here, like playing house, not worth mentioning at all.

To fight here is to fight to the death. If the so-called Piston Bad Boys, which were famous all over the United States, were in the NFL, they would be nothing.

There are more players injured and disabled in this off-court brawl than on the court, and many of them were even killed.

In the decades since the league was founded, there have been dozens of recorded deaths of players, but more deaths have been covered up. For example, as long as they don’t die on the field on the spot, it’s just an injury, otherwise this Numbers will climb dramatically.

Over the past few years, many congressmen have begun to call for changes in the rules of the game to reduce off-court violence because of the brutal NFL games. This is enough to explain the problem.

As a former NFL player and current NFL coach, he knows the harsh environment here all too well.

There is ubiquitous racial discrimination here, a hundred times more severe than in the NBA. In the eyes of those NFL players whose hormones are extremely high and every cell in their body is full of violence, Zhao Dong's social status may be useless, even He suspected that some extreme violent elements full of racial discrimination must have targeted Zhao Dong.

To be honest, even inside the Jets, there are many such players, and he knows it very well.

"Coach Edward, I've made all the preparations. This is my choice." Zhao Dong could only guarantee that.

In the end, Edward had no choice but to accept Zhao Dong's existence, and then began to discuss Zhao Dong's position.

At this time, Coach Melrose said again: "Feilong's speed is very fast, and his impact is the strongest in NBA history. I think he can focus on the position of wide receiver."

Edward thought for a while and said, "Well, let's do a physical test and a physical examination first."

"Yes." Zhao Dong said.

Although the training base is not available for training now, it is still possible to do the physical test. Zhao Dong immediately followed Edward and the others to the training base.

A large group of media reporters naturally followed suit.

Boss Johnson, general manager Philip and other management saw that head coach Edward accepted Zhao Dong's existence, so they went about their own affairs first.

During this period, the management of the NFL team is very busy, mainly to control the salary cap and deal with some contract details.

(End of this chapter)