also remains his harshest critic. He said he needs to do a better job communicating the cadence with his offense, improving the team’s kickoff returns and handling the challenges that come his way.

He met with quarterback Matt McGloin and center Matt Stankiewitch earlier this week to discuss ways to improve his communication with them. The team used a silent count at home last week, something players said they struggled with.

O’Brien will continue to practice with crowd noise this week to insure his team understands the signals and can operate efficiently in loud environments.

Improving kickoffs is an area O’Brien has brought up several times this season. At one point he said it was the team’s specialists who need to perform better, but on Wednesday he was candid about thehim after I left, because we were staying with friends who had little space, and became a nervous, unhappy wreck and rejoined me soon after I moved into a new apartment. He tried to pressure our son (who is officially an adult) not to let me or my mother attend his musical gigs at a public venue, and when our son refused, he disowned him. Three times.

He has twice kicked our daughter out of his house at weekends after she protected her younger brothers when he was verbally abusing them. My youngest son told me that he was spending as much time as he could in the upstairs bathroom because his father doesn’t go there much. Our second youngest gets stomach cramps every Thursday night before the weekends