{"id":2776,"date":"2010-08-25T03:45:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2010-08-23T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:51:01","slug":"why-tony-dungy-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-taking-on-rex-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/why-tony-dungy-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-taking-on-rex-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tony Dungy Shouldn\u2019t be Taking On Rex Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me say right out of the blocks, I love Tony Dungy.\u00a0 I admire him as a brother, as a coach, and as a great human being.<\/p>\n

I love his books.\u00a0 Anything he says, I listen to.\u00a0 So you need to understand that this comes from a Tony Dungy fan.\u00a0 But for the first time I have ever experienced, Tony has made a super blunder.<\/p>\n

You may wonder what it is, so let me explain.\u00a0 Tony has made not only one, but several comments over time about coaches using bad language, cursing in the process of coaching.\u00a0 On theory, I happen to agree with him that cursing, particularly the kind that uses high-octane words is non-productive.\u00a0 It really has no place in business, coaching, or almost any place else it seems to me.<\/p>\n

\"\"As expected, Rex Ryan has shot back in response to Tony\u2019s criticism of his language.\u00a0 So in several days they\u2019ve gone back and forth leading ultimately to the speech that Rex Ryan gave the other day.\u00a0 It goes something like this: \u201cYes, I cuss in the process of coaching.\u00a0 But let me be clear on saying I am a good person, because cussing doesn\u2019t make you a bad person any more than not cussing makes you a good person.\u201d\u00a0 And with that one statement, the battle was won.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is my point.\u00a0 You don\u2019t change people, increase your influence, or get more listeners by attacking other people\u2019s morals.\u00a0 Because the truth of the matter is, we\u2019re all vulnerable when it comes to our moral integrity.\u00a0 None of us are completely perfect and sinless in how we\u2019ve used language, influence, or relationships unethically, or at least unadvisedly.<\/p>\n

You get nowhere worth going by detracting from another person\u2019s behavior<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you have a point of view, set it forth with your own behavior rather than criticizing someone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Those of us who believe that being a Christian is a good thing and helping other people understand the true nature of the good news is a mission thing, need to understand that we do not influence people by condemning them.<\/strong><\/em> Jesus said, \u201cI\u2019ve come not to condemn the world.\u201d\u00a0 Remember that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me say right out of the blocks, I love Tony Dungy.\u00a0 I admire him as a brother, as a coach, and as a great human being. I love his books.\u00a0 Anything he says, I listen to.\u00a0 So you need to understand that this comes from a Tony Dungy fan.\u00a0 But for the first time … Continue reading “Why Tony Dungy Shouldn\u2019t be Taking On Rex Ryan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}