| Carlos Rogers on coach Jim Harbaugh: "He's a little crazy." (US PRESSWIRE) |
For 49ers cornerback Carlos Rogers, "crazy" explains a lot of things. We guess this is what happens when your boss is Jim Harbaugh and his boss' boss is Roger Goodell. During a recent radio interview with 790 the Zone in Atlanta, Rogers twice used that word to describe his head coach and the NFL commissioner.
Rogers called playing for Harbaugh as "fun" before describing Harbaugh as "a little crazy."
"He [does] things different than, I would say, a normal head coach," Rogers said via SportsRadioInterviews.com. "You’ll see the guy holding field goals for [David] Akers, taking snaps at quarterback, throwing the ball to the receivers when they’re going over their routes, over there talking to DBs like he really knows what’s going on, and just having fun throughout the whole practice. He has fun and he interacts with every position.”
You could also call Harbaugh crazy for "set(ting) the record straight" on the 49ers pursuing Peyton Manning this offseason. (As far as Harbaugh's concerned, that perception "is silly and it's untrue … it's phony.") Whatever his recollection of events this spring, his players seem to love him, as evidenced by Rogers' remarks above, as well as the 49ers' one-season turnaround in 2011. Following a 6-10 effort the year before, the team went 13-3, won the division and made it to the NFC Championship game.
Before revitalizing his career in San Francisco last offseason, Rogers, a 2005 first-round pick, was a member of the Redskins. He also played for then-Washington defensive coordinator Gregg Williams. In light of the Saints bounty scandal and Williams' part in it, Rogers was asked about both.
“Gregg just wants you to play hard, get them down, however necessary, but some of the stuff that went on the Saints, I’ve never been a part of. That wasn’t in Washington, and I don’t know the extent to it if it’s true. But other than that, I still think Gregg is one of the best defensive coordinators, one of the best persons and one of the best coaches I’ve ever been around.”
Williams had a role in the bounty mess, but Rogers questions Goodell's handling of the situation.
“The way he go about things is kind of crazy to me, but I’m not into the whole bounty thing," he said before making an important point. "If guys going out there to hurt guys for a couple of thousand dollars when you basically can get fined by the league for $15,000, it just doesn’t add out to me. A lot of people do their little system things where you make a big play, you make a big hit or you get a interception and you return it for a touchdown -- different positions have pots. But to say you go out and intentionally hurt a guy for for a couple of thousand dollars to get fined by the league $15,000 and even more, that just doesn’t add up.”
No, no it doesn't -- which explains why some Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and his lawyer last week called the NFL's handling of the situation a sham.
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