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Originally Posted by JAFF
When would the best time be?
He rehabbed all off season through preseason and he wasnt getting better. Should he stay, play like crap or stay and take up a roster spot, and not play all season because he couldnt?
He was an athlete his whole life and now he wasnt. He couldnt be what he had been.
My career is in my head, and short of some unforeseen event, I’ll get to retirement. I will have 36 years in my profession. A long time. Luck played 6 years missing one year due to injury. A lifetime for some in football. I never faced losing my job due to physical injury. He faced it every game. In his 30’s he is forced out of something he loves, and now must reinvent himself.
Its a game. A violent, brutal game. Would people prefer he went out like Junior Seau?
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I’m not begrudging him anything. He had to do what was best for him, just as all of us do
At the same time, there’s no denying he completely screwed the organization, possibly for many many years to come.
Both of these things can be true.