Works both ways, doesn't it?

Marshawn Lynch once coached a young player who was being roughed up to contain his anger, put it into the next play. Marshawn was good at that.

And I once watched Charles Woodson grab Jerry Rice by the facemask and shake him like a rag doll. Rice got incensed. "You can't do that to me!" or words to that effect.

Woodson told the great Jerry Rice to take word back to the Oakland bench for some of his players to quit the same cheap crap they were pulling on a Packer wideout - or there'd be more of it.

That took care of that.

My point is that the focus should be on execution of the next play, and the next - use the anger riled up by the dirt as a motivator.. Yours is that sometimes retaliation is neccessary to maintain order. I get both - and I think we'd both agree that the latter can't interfere with the former.

Thanks for the response.