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Couldn't disagree more.
The NFL is fiercely competitive and not at all considered a league where players are to be treated like breakable objects or children. Get injured? You're out. Lose a step? You're out. F-up playing your role on special teams? You're out.
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Which is why this new discipline policy is ridiculous. They expect these guys to turn it off once they're off the field? Please. They're a bunch of hypocrites.
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Guys like this have no regard for the competitive nature of the sport where he should be working hard 12 months a year and obviously has other bad priorities. Guys like him are absolutely expendable. That's just the way it is.
And no group knows this better than the players.
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He's certainly not expendable for the Titans in the short-term. Have you seen this guy play?
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have a good friend who was a College All-American and a KR/WR in the NFL for 5 years. He blew out his knee in a game. How many teammates went to see him during his 4 days in the hospital? One. The hospital is about one mile from their practice facility.
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Ok. And?
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A good read on this is Feinstein's Next Man Up which is a behind the scenes look at player personnel decisions during an entire Baltimore Ravens season.
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Yeah that style of leadership has worked out real well for the Ravens as of late.