Body language and physical mannerisms are very important when it comes to leadership. Ask Jay Cutler. That's partly why EG is now known as Black Cutler in our circle... the other part is his penchant for turnovers.
It certainly is for fans who are only making this basis during games. And during the few moments when things go badly. And during a few snippets of camera time. Without any context of speech and communication. You're not only missing the behind the scenes leadership the other 6 days of the week, it's a judgement based on roughly 20 seconds of camera time on a Saturday only.
On top of that, these highly subjective leadership tests based on body language have become a self-fulfilling prophesy in most regards, which this past weekend's Louisville game proved.
"Golson looked defeated after the fumble, sit him down for a series or two."
Boom, leadership evaluation complete. What happens after that is immaterial and here we are several days later using that contortion of face muscles as ammo against Golson's leadership. The fact that he re-grouped and balled out in the second half? That's not important.
A lot of this is really silly. It's one thing when Dayne Crist gets that deer in the headlights look and follows it up by being unproductive on the field. Then it's fair to make an inference to his body language and how that is affecting the team via leadership. But I really see none of that with Golson.
At any rate, I think there are 2 reasons why people jump to a lot of conclusions with Golson's body language:
1) When mistakes happen he tends toward 'sad' more than 'angry.' Not always though. And this certainly doesn't make him much different than hundreds of other quarterbacks.
2) His "look to the sidelines for calls" face has a natural wide-eyed glance to it that makes him look unsure of himself. I honestly don't read that much into it. Winston squints and looks like a 'tard quite often in the same situations.
