I think if you are talking the talk String was talking, no, you don't nickname certain players and brag about them coming to your house to watch TV.You don't recall he fired 1/2 of the OLine and an up/coming running back ... Bergeron?
That shocked me! But I wasn't in the locker room either. he may have been an Edwin Simmons for all I knew.
Nicknames? hardly equates to the expectation of starting because of seniority, which is what was happening in the latter years of Mack. Not to mention deals with daddies.
I know he dismissed a bunch of [players he deemed to be trouble makers. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. But, if he id that and couldn't develop who remained, that's on him. Not saying he should have kept them, but it's a lousy excuse for a losing season.