NBA Dynasty Sniper - Chapter 429
Before Zhao Dong came to know Edward, the head coach, this is a man with a strict coaching style.
Moreover, leading the team to win the division championship last season, the status of the team has also been stabilized, and has a strong right to speak.
Sure enough, Edward said in the next sentence: “Flying Dragon, although you are a rich man and even once the boss here, this is a professional league and NFL. I hope your only identity here is a player.
I hope you can obey any arrangement made by the coaching staff here. It is any arrangement and unconditional execution. There are no billionaires here, only player Zhao Dong. Do you understand? “
“Understood.” Zhao Dong said solemnly.
Edward nodded coldly, let go of his hand, and said nothing.
Johnson smiled apologetically: “Flying Dragon, Henman has only been in the Jets for a season, and his coaching style is very strict…”
“This is very good. I didn’t come to the NFL to play. The attitude of coach Edward 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 is to offend Mrs. Lindsay, who is anyone who a billionaire never wants to offend.
He is just a small investor in Tianlong Investment Bank. For investors of his level, Tianlong Investment Bank has at least a thousand people.
Next, Zhao Dong signed a contract with the New York Jets for $350,000 a year, which is the amount before taxes and a standard basic salary contract.
The NFL and the NBA are different. Although the NBA rules are learned from the NFL, some changes have taken place after the NBA formed its own rules.
For example, the salary cap. After the NBA learned the hard salary cap of the NFL, it came up with a soft salary cap. In the past few years, there has been a luxury tax. This gives wealthy teams a lot of room to operate. Own financial resources create a luxurious lineup.
The NFL only has a hard salary cap. No matter how rich the team and the owner are, they can’t exceed the salary cap, so they can’t force a luxurious lineup.
Of course, Zhao Dong can also sign a larger contract, but it is completely unnecessary. The larger his contract, it will only occupy a limited salary space and affect the team’s lineup reinforcement. This is certainly not the result he wants.
And his current strength, that is, third-rate, if it is not for his status, he is not qualified to enter the NFL at all, this contract is also he actively requested.
The NFL draft this year has ended, and it has now entered the offseason. The new season will begin on September 5 and the preseason will begin in August. During the offseason, coaches and players are not allowed to use training. Base.
Of course, before the first preseason game, the league allows the team to conduct full training for up to 15 days, 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 let the coaching staff make a training plan for him, and then he will find a venue for training.
The venue is okay. When I went to Stony Brook University yesterday, I had already negotiated with the school, and I was training there.
In terms of coaches and trainers, he can also 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 Phillips.
As for the media, they didn’t follow up and could only wait outside for news.
“Feilong, what technical training did you practice before?” Edward asked when a staff member served coffee after sitting down.
Zhao Dong smiled and said: “When I was at Stony Brook University, that is, after I finished basketball training, I had time to go to the rugby team. I tried every position and the skills were more comprehensive.”
“Comprehensive? Comprehensiveness equals mediocrity.”
Edward’s face turned dark, if it weren’t for Zhao Dong’s identity, he must have been roaring at the general manager and boss by this time.
Isn’t this a joke? The team has only 53 official places, and each of them is useful. If someone who knows nothing comes in, one place will be wasted in vain. Don’t the team have a record next season?
The NFL is not the NBA. The NBA team gets a superstar and has a chance to win a game of five, but that kind of thing will never happen on the football field.
The rugby team is divided into a defensive group, an offensive group, and a special team. The offensive group is responsible for offensive scoring. When it is the opponent’s turn to attack, the offensive team will go off the court and the defensive team will play.
Therefore, in football games, offense and defense are separated. No matter how strong a player is, it is impossible to play the world alone like basketball.
Rugby teams, just like the real army, all players are a part of this machine. A problem with one position will likely lead to a loss of the whole game.
So football cannot be like basketball. Once you get a superstar, you have a chance to win.
The area of a rugby field is thirteen times the size of a basketball court. It requires the cooperation of all players to play a defensive or offensive tactic. Even a superstar is only one part of it.
Zhao Dong has no skills, but he has 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 bench is also very important.” Edward said bluntly.
At this time, an old coach named Melos who was very familiar with Zhao Dong said: “Coach Edward, although Feilong is not very technical, he has excellent physical conditions and athletic qualities. Even in the NFL, his overall quality has reached the top. In fact, there are many positions that suit him.
And he is not too old. Some rookies who were drafted in their senior year are not much younger than him.
In addition, there are some players who play basketball in the NCAA. They also participate in the NFL draft. Some people have successfully joined the NFL. So I think that the dragon is just an older rookie. Although he has played in the NBA for seven years, But we still have the potential to play rugby well. We got him at no cost. This should be a lucky thing. “
Zhao Dong laughed when he heard it, but he felt that Melos 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 been playing professional basketball for seven years, the wear and tear is very small, and the ability of injury immunity has protected 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 Melrose say this: “Although Feilong is only 26 years old, you just said that he has been playing professional games for seven years. Are you aware of his physical injuries? So he and those It’s different for the older rookies who played basketball in the NCAA but joined the NFL in the end.”
Melos was speechless when he heard it, because Zhao Dong signed the contract directly and did not undergo a medical examination. How does he know what kind of injuries Zhao Dong has?
Hearing this, Zhao Dong could only say: “This is very simple, do a physical examination. If I am really not suitable, I can choose to leave here.”
“NONONO…”
Owner Johnson spit out a series of no when he heard it, and said to Zhao Dong: “Feilong, based on your performance in the NBA, you have never suffered any injuries. I believe you are in good health.”
Having said this, he said to Edward very seriously: “Henman, let alone you don’t know the performance of Flying Dragon in the NBA, even if you don’t watch NBA games, you must have heard of it.”
Edward thought for a while, nodded and said: “I’m sorry, I’m not picky, because NFL games are ten times fierce and cruel than NBA games. Every year, many players are disabled and even die from injuries. There are constant fights. This is the battlefield. I prefer to call it the Colosseum. I don’t want the flying dragon to have problems under my hands.”
He really doesn’t want Zhao Dong to be his player. It’s not entirely because Zhao Dong has no skills. There are other more important issues.
To put it simply, he can’t bear the responsibility. If Zhao Dong is smashed to death on and off the court, or injured and killed, he shall not be skinned by Mrs. Lindsay?
The environment of the NFL can be a hundred times as brutal as the NBA. Compared with this, the NBA is a civilized world. The most brutal NBA player who comes to the NFL is a gentleman.
For hundreds of years, countless NFL players have been injured and disabled, and after retirement, they can only lie in bed and linger.
The fights on and off the court in the NBA are too pediatric compared to here, and they are not worth mentioning.
Fighting here is to die. If the so-called American Pistons Bad Boys were in the NFL, they would not be fart.
There are more players injured and disabled in off-court fights than on the court due to injuries, and there are even more people who are 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 you don’t die on the court, it’s just an injury, otherwise this The numbers will rise sharply.
Over the past few years, because of the cruel NFL games, many congressmen have begun to call for changes to the rules of the game and reduction of off-court violence. This is enough to explain the problem.
As a former NFL player and current NFL coach, he is too aware of the harsh environment here.
There is ubiquitous racial discrimination here, one hundred times more serious than the NBA. In the eyes of those NFL players whose hormones are extremely flooded and every cell in their body is full of violence, Zhao Dong’s social identity may be useless, even He suspects that there must be some extreme violent elements full of racial discrimination that have already targeted Zhao Dong.
To be honest, even inside the Jets, there are many such players, and he knows this very well.
“Coach Edward, I have made all the preparations~www.mtlnovel.com~This is my choice.” Zhao Dong can only guarantee that.
Edward finally had no choice but to accept Zhao Dong’s existence, and then began to discuss Zhao Dong’s location.
At this time, coach Melrose again said: “The flying dragon is very fast, and the impact is the strongest in the history of the NBA. I think he can attack the wide receiver position.”
Edward thought for a while and said, “Well, let’s do a physical examination and a physical examination first.”
“Yes.” Zhao Dong said.
Although the training base cannot train now, it is still possible to do physical tests. Zhao Dong immediately followed Edward and the others to the training base.
A large group of media reporters naturally followed.
The boss Johnson, general manager Philip and other management saw that the head coach Edward accepted the existence of Zhao Dong, so they went to work on their own affairs first.
During this period, the NFL team management is very busy, mainly to control the salary cap, to deal with some contract details.