[Jackson] Tyreek and captains have removed ping pong tables from locker room to focus on preparing for games. “That, to me, is leadership,” McDaniel said.

Life is a never-ending succession of NFL teams adding ping pong tables w/stories about how they're finally coming together as a family and enjoying each other's company, and NFL teams removing ping pong tables w/stories about how they're finally taking football seriously.

This is one of the greatest football tweets ever. It's so true.

A true football team will leave half a ping pong table in their locker room so that way they're both serious and fun.

This also works well for tech startups. Just sub in references to “positive company culture” when adding ping pong and “prioritizing critical business functions” when taking ping pong away and it’s perfect

Lmao the wapo article in the follow-up tweet.

That tweet was the absolute first thing that I thought of when I saw this headline. Just goes to show how much the reception to an idea can be shaped by how its presented/sold/etc.

That tweet needs to be framed because it literally is never-ending lol

Meanwhile the team stunk with ping pong tables and Jay Gruden and now with Ron Rivera and no ping tables they still stink

Jesus that was just lined up

Reminds me of a company I worked for once where we moved offices and the new one had ping pong tables, shuffleboard table, literal arcade games, and sleep pods… business took a downturn and the sight of people playing ping pong while the company was struggling enraged upper management… even though they are the ones who decided to put all this dumb crap in the office in the first place.

Nice to see NFL teams are still hiring management consultants.

Man thats so on the nose.

Time is a flat circle

McDaniel is absolutely the type of dude who would have known about this tweet and made this comment specifically to reference back to it. It's like when Rich Eisen asked him to hit all of the meaningless coach-speak phrases in his opening press conference, and McDaniel purposely spouted all of them off

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2018/01/19/no-spin-zone-how-ping-pong-annually-impacts-the-nfl-playoffs/

It’s almost like teams have paid PR staff and said staff have a playbook…

Aged like a fine wine.

What if it's the same ping-pong table?

genius

We need a public ping pong tracker.

It's always the ping pong tables..

Tom Coughlin approves

And the hip hop music that the youths keep listening to.

You got Trouble right here in River City; Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Ping Pong.

I recall the Steelers did something similar after they started out undefeated a few years ago and then lost like six straight games.

Can you imagine if they had Foosball table or bubble hockey?

First, they came for my ping pong tables, and I said nothing.

Incredible sacrifice

Let Ping pong

Yeah can't say I get what impact this is supposed to have, unless the Ping Pong tables are cursed objects that are directly causing Tua's injuries, it won't increase their chances of winning remotely.

It’s over for these bitches now

Can’t wait for the 30 for 30 on this.

Kelvin Benjamin and captains have removed the buffet from the locker room to focus on preparing for the hot dog eating contest. “That, to me, is leadership,” Joey Chestnut said.

Brave, stunning

Literally 2 weeks ago there were stories about how the table helped build competition and focus. They were thanking McDaniels for it.

how the ping pong tables have turned

Ben Wyatt voice:

That was before the team lost to the Jets.

Not only that but Hill was specifically cited as being really into it lol

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They started losing 2 weeks ago. Coincidence?

great find!

Ah yes but 2 weeks ago they were 3-0.Now that they’re 3-2 everything’s changed

Tyreek was losing games, so now he’s taking that leadership role by taking away the table before he beats someone up for winning against him.

Didn’t Flores take the tables out and McDaniel put them back in and everyone was jazzed about how fun and relaxed he was

A coach does it and they're a hard-ass for taking away fun. Players do it and it's "leadership" because winners don't have fun outside of football

Snip snap snip snap!!

Yeah my first thought reading this was if McDaniel is so impressed by the “leadership” of removing ping pong tables, why did he as the leader of the team add the ping pong tables

So… when they remove them, does it reset top scores? I think there’s more to the story.

It’s kinda fucked now that you mention it lol. Flores gets lambasted for it, but when the players do the exact same thing next season they get praised

What losing to the Jets does to a mf

lmao facts. Aaron Rodgers is gonna remove the mobile brewing station, 4 foot cactus and sweat lodge from theirs if they lose

The jets have ended AB and ping ping tables in the past year

Agreed.

Franchise altering loss on the schedule.

"They have since replaced it with a TV playing MacGruber on repeat to raise morale", McDaniel added, "oh hey what up beast", McDaniel said to a passing Tua Tagovailoa.

Tua laughed throughout the movie, noting that he’d never seen it before.

In a few years somebody will bring them back and we will hear about how that is leadership.

My favorite part about being a Jet fan is how pissed teams get losing to them. Steelers Safety was crying in the press conference how they were the better team. Dolphins instantly remove the ping pong tables. This week Packers are already talking about if they lose to the Jets than its a problem

theres genuinely nothing that will top watching Browns fans enter actual like melt down mode after week 2.

Bucs last year too. Caused Antonio brown meltdown

Plz beat the Packers lol

You guys can do it!! Go NY

Dolphins fans on social media get more pissed any time they lose a game than anyone else I've seen. You'll get people making 4 page threads about why the Dolphins beat themselves.

ping pong tables and pizza parties are what companies who say we work hard, play hard put in their rooms

Work for an Amazon warehouse and they just added ping pong tables few months back

Tyreek and captains have switched the toilet paper to hang in the "over" position instead of the "under" position. "That, to me, is leadership," McDaniel said through the stall door.

That is leadership! Confidence, even when you're wrong. Always under when there may be kids or cats nearby.

Tyreek was getting whooped in table tennis and he's like you know what, this games bad for the team!

watch out before he breaks someone's arm!

Rivera did this after he took over the Redskins after Jay Gruden.

When does the Rivera smoking weed video come out?

Gruden had Cousins for most of his time in Washington. Rivera had 6 games of Alex Smith where he went 5-1 and has had dogshit at QB since.

McDaniel added "Tua was initially against the decision but calmed down after enjoying a Capri Sun while watching Trolls: World Tour."

First Tyreek came for the pregnant women and small children, and I did not speak out - because I was not Tyreek’s pregnant girlfriend or infant child.

Then Antonio Brown came on me. This isn't related to the other parts of the story, but it is worth mentioning.

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Literally 1984

Ah yes, the notorious ping pong table in locker rooms that causes teams to lose games..

Statistics show a 15.47% win increase after removing ping pong tables.

If ping pong is negatively affecting your play on the field, you were going to lose anyways

I love how these cycles work.

In this case, it seems like the turnaround was a matter of weeks instead of years.

I mean, in a city like Miami, isn't having your players dicking around in the facility playing ping pong with each other preferable to them going on and doing lines at the clubs?

Exactly, it's not like they're playing ping pong during practice or anything. What a weird situation

This is getting annoying

The games are starting to become unwatchable, may as well bask in the off the field drama. These are ma stories!

Tyreek was probably dropping sets

He was dropping more than sets back there.

The lack of ping pong will continue until morale improves

Tyreek has banned Macgruber from the Dolphins’ phones. “That, to me, is leadership,” McDaniel said

Birth of new copypasta

Big Ben Roethlisberger and captains have removed microwaves and vending machines from the locker room to focus on preparing for games

Tua yelled "There you go!" Jaylen Waddle gave a look of pleasant surprise. Mike McDaniel belted "We got some [expletive] focus now." And before Tyreek Hill hit the locker room door, ex-coach Brian Flores hugged him and said "I fucking hate ping pong"

Kelvin Benjamin and other customerss have removed vegetables and appetizers from the Golden Corral buffet to focus on preparing for entrées.

Has anyone heard Tua talk himself? I’ve only heard third-parties relay his messages. Are we sure he’s ok?

He whispers what he wants to say in somebody's ear and then they relay that information to the desired target

No joke, I heard a rumor from a friends wife that Tua is gonna retire

"Tyreek removed ping pong tables to have more space to beat his pregnant girlfriend."

Upvote/downvote quandary.

No more ping pong

"Tyreek and captains have distributed bath bombs to all players to focus on preparing for games. "That, to me, is leadership," McDaniel said.

For a second I thought you said just regular bombs..

Between the Tua laughing at movies on the plane ride quote to this. McDaniel is creating all the memes and I’m here for it.

Kelvin and captains have removed drinks from bar to focus on preparing for buffet. "That, to me, is leadership", Reid said.

“The team dynamic has really come together since we made the transition to foosball.”

I know I would be more responsive to foosball.

I'm not going to take them seriously until they get rid of the foosball.

Foosball is the devil

The real story is finding out who the assholes on the team are that got the ping pong tables taken away.

Underrated comment. You know there’s like 4 guys on the 53 man roster absolutely more concerned with ping pong than the game and they spoiled it for everyone

Such brave. Very leader.

Have they considered shutting off the TV's at their practice facility?

Their loss had nothing to do with future dishwasher repairman Skylar Thompson having to play QB…it was the ping pong tables fault.

Dishwasher repairman 😂

Kyler: "you can take this PS5 over my dead body, it's double XP weekend"

This is some onion level shit

The Jets dropping 40 does a lot to you

When MacArthur first arrived in Korea, he immediately had all the ping pong tables dragged out back, shot, and set on fire.

The ping pong people of the world need your help! For only $19 dollars a month, you can help this man go to a leadership school. Maybe the ping pong people prevail.

They removed the ping pong table because Tyreek broke one of the arms. Do ping pong tables have arms?

It's a ping pong table that does bear crawls. It's catered to football training

They have legs

Classic sign of disaster.

If they need to remove a gaming table from their locker room so they have nothing to do but their job is an indication to me the team has bigger personality fit problems. The fact that McDaniel thinks that is a good idea, without commenting on the deeper underlying problems is also really interesting.

I mean he’s gonna praise his players no matter what. Ultimately I doubt it matters or that he really cares past filling us time in his presser

Ping Pong is for closers!

This is what losing to the Jets does to mfers LMAOOOOOO

Idk you guys are 3-2 so I don't see the issue here. Losing to a good team isn't bad 😎

much leadership, very wow

Tyreek lucky to be in the league at all after what he did in college. I wouldn't take leadership advice from a person like that.

I don’t think that’s the best thing tbh. U still wanna have some type of place or activity where players can unwind and relax a little bit. Extra prep is good and all but u don’t want to be locked in 24/7

I'm gonna walk down the hall and toss the ping pong table in our office kitchen out the window so that we can all focus on prepping for conference calls. Wonder if I'll get a raise

You'll get promoted to customer

Certified Joe Judge moment

Removing the ping pong tables from the locker room is the "Leaning forward while playing video games" of the NFL

Sometimes, a leader has to put his foot down and say “it’s time to stop playing with our balls in the locker room.”

Shits getting real

LOL!!

This dweeb should sent Nathaniel Hackett a gift basket for deflecting attention.

Kelvin Benjamin and company have removed salad tables from the buffet to focus on preparing for dessert. “That, to me, is leadership,” Reid said.

The players that use the ping pong tables probably are going to play worse now.

“They then put up posters from the film Macgruber. That to me is also leadership”

You've pinged your last pong

HR would tell you that lowers employee morale and retention

Tyreek said we really just lost to the jets NO MORE PING PONG

"That, to me, is leadership."

They distract from MacGruber night.

Leadership has fallen to very low standard.

Punishing millionaires will always be funny to me

Could you imagine if you don't meet a sales goal of some kind, and your boss took away a game from your break room?

Playing ping pong AND watching MacGruber? WTF is going on in Miami?

Leadership would be to not beat the snot out of your family, in my opinion

So stupid. If ping pong tables are the reason you are losing...well, there are much deeper underlying issues.

Hill punched the ping pong table and told teammate “you should be afraid of me too”

First they came for the ping pong but I didn’t pong , then they came for the Xboxes but I’m a PC gamer ,

starting your QB1 after a traumatic brain injury: also leadership

Lol Miami removed half of their concussion protocol. The standard procedure is a game of ping pong and watching Macgruber on the plane ride home

This seems like the next great copypasta

Kelvins Benjamin and captains have removed fruit and vegetables from the buffet to focus on bread, meat, and cheese. “That, to me, is eatin’ good in the neighborhood,” McDonald said.

let them pong!

It was probably like 4-5 guys who played and Tyreek hates them. Like, the kicker and punter type fun.

The foosball tables stay though.

Is there an advanced stat that takes into account time spent playing ping pong? This could be the next big thing in analytics.

Tua accidentally hit his head on the edge of the table while walking by and has another back injury now!

“But MacGruber stays on”

I have a simple fix to the ping pong issue. Start the season with a ping pong table. Every win you don't make a change. Every loss you remove the ping pong table if it's in the locker room and at it back if it's not in the locker room.

Bruh ping pong is not going to hold back your team.

"Leaders remove ping pong tables" - George Patton

this is copy pasta worthy.

Why is it always ping pong tables causing these teams to play like shit?

This is how you make a long snapper mad

I feel like every week is a new season for Miami

". . . I have a lot to learn. I thought putting Macgruber on a loop in the locker room was enough." McDaniel lamented

Leadership is when no fun in free time

Ah. The birth of a new pasta!

Man, it's not like we're the Texans, Panthers or Commies. Bit of an overreaction isn't it.

Tee Higgins in shambles

Lol

Someone lost the ball so they can’t play anymore.

Tyreek and the captains were actually just replacing them with foosball tables though.

Don’t touch the foos ball or bubble hockey. Ping pong can be sacrificed as a show of leadership…but don’t mess w the teams foos or hockey.

The kicker said he was gone if they removed the foosball, so that remained.

Leadership is when no ping pong

The No Fun League exemplified

Tyreek just wants an excuse to swipe the paddles and put them to other use.

Presidential. Such boldness.

Really setting that bar.

Golden Corral managers have removed ping pong tables from kitchen to focus on preparing for lunch. “That, to me, is leadership,” Benjamin said.

Right in the middle of the principles of war - maintenance of morale. This team is fucked.

Tyreek broke his son’s arm. He isn’t a leader or someone that should be respected. He probably just sucks at ping pong.

TIL Tyreek sucks at Ping-Pong and hates losing.

Tyreek has removed belts from his anti-kid weapon bag to focus on preparing for games. "That, to me, is leadership", McDaniel said.

What's funny to me is that everyone and their grandma has said that coach press conferences are the worst because most coaches are so by the numbers and rigid. You finally get a guy who speaks his mind and people are so ready and excited to pick apart his words.

Speaking about something insignificant like ping pong tables as a sign of player maturity/leadership is a fairly generic line for a coach presser which is why it’s become a punchline over time

This shit reminds me of the time that one Phillies player smashed the TV in the locker room cause guys were playing Fortnite while they were on a losing streak. And it's a surefire way to look like a grandstanding asshole.