The Nationals Became Too Complacent Under Dave Martinez I BMitch & Finlay

Tobi and BMitch believe the Nationals got too used to being okay with losing under the previous regime.

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00:00But when you get comfortable in your job, you get comfortable in your spot,

00:03you get comfortable in where you're at, it can lead to that complacency

00:06where it's no longer about those wins and losses.

00:08Have you had experience in a locker room where there was complacency

00:13and there was a lack of urgency from whether it was the general manager,

00:17the coach, other players, and how did you address that?

00:23Yes.

00:24I've been around coaches where this is what happens sometimes.

00:28Sometimes coaches get to a point where they're satisfied with certain people

00:33and they will allow other people to just do whatever.

00:39And if you see a coach not disciplining or getting on someone

00:44but not doing the right stuff, whether that coach yells at you or not

00:49and you know what you start doing, following that lead guy.

00:53When Norv was here, Michael Westbrook couldn't do nothing wrong.

00:58Mike would mess up all the time.

01:00He would yell at James Strash.

01:02I went to him and said, yo, man, you can't do that.

01:05This kid would do anything in the world to get on the field, run through a wall for you.

01:09The other guy needs to be corrected because you know what other guys are doing?

01:12Other guys are saying you don't discipline him,

01:14so they're not going to do what they need to do.

01:16So all of a sudden you get a complacent team who's not trying to get better.

01:20The thing with this team, like you stated, they're not winning,

01:25but you haven't seen nobody get mad at anything.