TEMPE, Ariz. -- For years, Arizona Cardinals linebackers coach Rob Rodriguez listened to his old boss -- former Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer -- tell players that if they got fined for breaking team rules it wasn’t Zimmer’s fault.
It was their own.
“I don’t fine you,” Zimmer would say. “You fine yourself.”
So when Rodriguez heard his new boss, Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon, tell his players something similar this offseason, he knew where it came from.
“I was like, ‘Oh, s---, there you go. We’re coming from the same spot,’” Rodriguez remembered.