September 03, 2017 02:33PM | Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 16,078
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RamUK
Who was roundly seen as super team focussed and just a flat out great guy, who held out with 2-years of his contract to go into the season.
Not that any player has to be those things, but I think we're getting a peek into his character.
A bit like when he got ejected against San Fran, it was all about him and not about the team.
It's easy to defend that as passion, but it was more petulant than passionate.
I don't think it matters RUK because I don't see
(1) pursuing your own interests on the business side,
and (2) being team focused as a player
...as being opposite or mutually exclusive things.
Jack Youngblood would I think meet your description of being team-focused and he held out in 1980.
"Team focused" doesn't have to mean "patsy to management." I know that puts it way too strongly but that's the way my thinking tends.
I would imagine in fact that Donald brings the same intensity and sense of purpose to the game as he does to the business side of things.
I don't see petulance. With all due respect, to me that's just you using an emotional term for a situation you don't like. I don't see it as an "insight" into AD at all. Either way it's eye of the beholder stuff, and tells me a lot about what you personally don't like about this, but tells me nothing about AD.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2017 02:34PM by zn.
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