The 10 Lamest Personalities in the NFL

We know not everyone is the same when it comes to excitement. What might get a charge out of one person may not have the same effect on the other.

But this is football, people. When you think of football, you think of egos and smash-mouth plays and trash-talking and players who cannot keep their mouths shut.

Yes, the likes of James Harrison, Conrad Dobler and Joe Willie Namath.

We think of the loud stadiums, the coaches who motivate our favorite teams and, most of all, our favorite players.

Then we have these guys: the guys who are great to watch, great to plan for or great to emulate, but not great to listen to.

They may be great (I said may be) at what they do, but they come up short in the excitement department.

These guys have a degree in Lameness and need a shot of something to get them out of the rut they are in.

Joe Flacco

Does this guy even want to be the quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens?

Joe Flacco is having one of those kinds of seasons where you just wish he would speak a little more and act like the leader of this team.

With personalities on the Ravens like Ed Reed and Ray Lewis, it is a difficult task, but the quarterback should be the one leading by example.

Flacco is not.

Jim Caldwell

He knows he is in hot water.

Jim Caldwell is one of the guys who are stuck in the position they are in because of circumstances. Truth be told, there really isn't a way to get out.

Caldwell goes to the podium week after week and takes it on the chin because there is nothing else he can do.

Matt Schaub

As vanilla as they come.

I swear you could not pick him out of the group of three at a mall.

Schaub is a good arm with zero personality. For a team that has never been to the playoffs, there needs to be more of something inside him that motivates his teammates.

The Texans are on the path to the playoffs, but you would not know it because the quarterback is so nonexistent.

Mike Tomlin

I like the Steelers, but I want more personality out of my coach.

Mike Tomlin is a great X's and O's guy, but I am used to Bill Cowher patrolling the sidelines and firing up the troops.

Tomlin does not do that.

These are the Steelers. I just want some more excitement, that's all.

Jay Cutler

If you are going to be a quarterback in a town like Chicago, please bring some interesting things to talk about with you.

After Cutler was "hurt" in the NFC championship game, he kept dodging bullets from NFL players and the media. But the way he did it was kind of ho-hum.

I guess if you are a quarterback and you are really "injured," then you challenge the media. You don't ask someone like Brian Urlacher, who is an intense guy, to hold your hand or defend you.

Jack Del Rio

I have seen him get fired up and motivate. I swear I have.

But if you listen to him at a press conference, he says the same things over and over again.

And this just in: He hates losing.

Del Rio talks to the media like he has the same prepared speech every week. Oh, the monotony.

Maybe if he sounded more excited about the games the Jaguars play, we might buy into the idea that he is trying to save his job.

Marvin Lewis

He is one of the better coaches in the NFL, but he is also one of the most monotonous.

Maybe that has worked this season with the Bengals, but he would be better served as a fiery guy and the motivator he is.

Lewis is making things happen in Cincinnati; we just wish he looked excited every now and then.

Cris Collinsworth

I had to get this one in here.

I cannot stand the "common" voice he has when he is talking on the television screen. He is Ahmad Rashad lite.

Someone get this guy a personality. PLEASE.

The problem is that Al Michaels is great and Collinsworth (and no, this is not an anti-Gator bias) is hard to listen to.

Bill Belichick

Players know it is his way or get off the bus.

But when Belichick gets in front of the camera, it is like trying to pry a piece of gum into his mouth.

I am sure that is the way he wants it, and judging by his success rate, it works. But for a team so good on offense and so poor on defense, you sure want to see him move about a little more, and you certainly want to hear that fire coming out of his mouth.

Roger Goodell

Even Bud Selig could give this guy a lesson in animation.

Goodell is the mighty iron fist of the NFL—the guy who fought the labor dispute and hands down fines for dirty play.

But on the microphone and in front of the camera, fish have more personality.

At least Pete Rozelle had the likes of Al Davis to contend with.

We want someone fair and an enforcer when it comes to rules and changes, but we also want to see a little more inflection in his voice and attitude when he does it.