Cardinals head coach Jon Gannon has revealed that he emotionally checked out of football in 2007 — the year Michael Vick went to jail.
Not when his team lost a playoff game. Not when he got passed over for a job. No, Gannon went emotionless with football because of Vick’s arrest.
The Cardinals coach, two weeks after his sideline blow-up with running back Emari Demercado, provided a very … interesting answer to when he learned to take his emotions out of coaching.
“2007, when our quarterback went to jail,” a straight-laced Gannon said, met with silence before the press conference was concluded.
That 2007 season was Gannon’s first year as an NFL coach, when he was a defensive assistant for the Falcons. That year, Atlanta’s star quarterback, Michael Vick, was arrested for his involvement in a dogfighting ring that sent him to federal prison for nearly two years.
So if the Cardinals look emotionally flat this season, don’t blame the players because coach Gannon left his feelings in 2007 over Vick’s arrest.
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