well now hold on, could we really say that O'Shea isn't a hard ass? I'd say he is (and this isn't just me talking, this is my neighbour talking who played for him in Toronto when he was a special teams coach) but that being said, he's a hard ass who has played the game and doesn't ask any more of his players than he was willing to put out there on the field when he was a player. The players who really want to be part of the team (in the whole sense of that word) get that. You are a hard ass, because you are playing for the rest of the guys around you, who are also hard asses. Losing isn't an option. You are playing for your fellow brothers. If that's not "hard ass" then I don't know what is. Guys like Maas will never get that.