Where there's smoke, there's fire

Leave it to the wide-eyed college kid, the one who knows something about winning after his team took home a BCS championship at 'Bama, to see things as they are and lay it out there:

Backup quarterback Greg McElroy said yesterday the team was hurt by a “corrupt mindset” in the locker room, with too many me-first attitudes.

Speaking to an Alabama radio station, McElroy said, “It’s the first time I’ve ever been around extremely selfish individuals.

“I think that’s maybe the nature of the NFL. But there were people within our locker room that didn’t care whether we won or lost as long as they had good games individually. And that’s the disappointing thing.

“And it’s going to take a lot to come together next year. I think the fact that we struggled at times this year really led to a really just corrupt mindset within the locker room.”

I fully expect him to a pay price for opening his mouth.  In the land of Rex, everyone's doing their honest bestest for the good of the team.  And you can tell by the way they cry when they lose.

Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum responded to McElroy’s claims on WFAN.

“I don’t think we have a corrupt locker room,” he said. “I know we have a lot of good people, and we’ve won a lot of games with Rex and this nucleus, and we’re going to get the problems fixed.”