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Vol Horn 4 Life

Vol Horn 4 Life

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I just don't understand the mentality of today's players and specifically Le'Veon Bell. I guess $14.5 million for one year is only enough for him to show up on game day to get his stats. I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...that's how many times he used the word I in those few sentences.

"I'm not going to [training] camp. I'm not doing nothing else extra, OTAs, none of that..."

"I'm going to strictly go to what I have to go to. I want to win every game. I want to have the best statistical career that I possibly can, so I want to play in every game that I can possibly play."
 
Vol Horn 4 Life said:
I just don't understand the mentality of today's players and specifically Le'Veon Bell. I guess $14.5 million for one year is only enough for him to show up on game day to get his stats. I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...that's how many times he used the word I in those few sentences.

"I'm not going to [training] camp. I'm not doing nothing else extra, OTAs, none of that..."

"I'm going to strictly go to what I have to go to. I want to win every game. I want to have the best statistical career that I possibly can, so I want to play in every game that I can possibly play."
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Tear an acl that 14.5 million won’t last long. That’s why most guys don’t like playing on tags they won’t the long term with big guaranteed money. You don’t even have to be injured if your numbers dive so does your value.

I personally wouldn’t pay bell what he is asking he missed a lot of games and can’t stay off the weeeeeeedddd
 
Vol Horn 4 Life said:
I just don't understand the mentality of today's players and specifically Le'Veon Bell. I guess $14.5 million for one year is only enough for him to show up on game day to get his stats. I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...that's how many times he used the word I in those few sentences.

"I'm not going to [training] camp. I'm not doing nothing else extra, OTAs, none of that..."

"I'm going to strictly go to what I have to go to. I want to win every game. I want to have the best statistical career that I possibly can, so I want to play in every game that I can possibly play."
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Inky Johnson is the opposite of this. He was A Tennessee Vol and got hurt and almost died from his injuries 8 games before he could enter the draft and go pro, first round projection. He has no use of his shoulder, arm, and hand ever since his injury. He is imho the greatest living motivational speaker out there. He turned his tragedy into helping others. We can all learn from that. He has turned around a lot of people from living like Le'Veon Bell or Lawrence Phillips or Maurice Clarett.
 
easy said:
That’s why most guys don’t like playing on tags they won’t the long term with big guaranteed money.
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I don't particularly care for "guaranteed money" either. I do think players should get paid if you have a career ending injury on the job. Nothing should be guaranteed if you have a crappy attitude and poor performance. I have nothing guaranteed except more work for my job and I appreciate that because it's job security.
 
AC, thanks. I did not know of Inky Johnson until now, and multiple YouTube videos. Pretty amazing. I’d love for Herman to bring him to speak to the players.
 
The players are pretty lousy at making their case. They could really use some help from somebody to get their point across.

Having said that I'm all for them getting what they can. They are making a bunch of old billionaires and the NFL plenty of money. Without the players, that are truly an elite workforce the old billionaires can't make money in football.

What are fans going to do without players? Maybe the could tune in and watch Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft shoot the finger at each other from their skyboxes.
 
dukesteer said:
AC, thanks. I did not know of Inky Johnson until now, and multiple YouTube videos. Pretty amazing. I’d love for Herman to bring him to speak to the players.
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I was on vacation and just saw this. I only found out about Inky Johnson 10 days ago from my 17 yr old daughter. Her Basketball Coach showed them his videos. He is truly inspirational. I am a bit of a "Rudy" in the entrepreneurial sense so this inspired me spiritually and from a business perspective. Just don't give up, keep going that's basically it. Sounds easy.
 
In defense of the players, I'm sure they know that some terrific, Hall of Fame performers now in their 50s are barely able to walk and are living with hands so broken and arthritic they can't even give an autograph. Unless they are deliberately keeping themselves unaware, the players know that many of their teammates will be wearing diapers and unable to communicate at an age when most of us retire and start living the life we dreamed of and planned for in normal, less lucrative, jobs.

So yeah, they have an urgency to make money and have fun.
 
Crockett said:
In defense of the players, I'm sure they know that some terrific, Hall of Fame performers now in their 50s are barely able to walk and are living with hands so broken and arthritic they can't even give an autograph. Unless they are deliberately keeping themselves unaware, the players know that many of their teammates will be wearing diapers and unable to communicate at an age when most of us retire and start living the life we dreamed of and planned for in normal, less lucrative, jobs.

So yeah, they have an urgency to make money and have fun.
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I don't think I am technically disagreeing with you because I do think players see what has happened in the past. I do think the change in the mentality of the industry, medical advancements and constant improvement of equipment will improve today's players quality of life 25 years from now compared to today's older retired players.

I believe the NFL needs to have a better medical system of taking care of those who suffer as a result of their career instead of guaranteeing money now just to those who are supposedly good players.

But even then I still don't understand the "I'm gonna do the bare minimum" mentality whether he is making $14 an hour or $14 mil a year. I just wasn't raised that way.
 
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