NFL mental health ... young deaths

Jeff Allen had a Twitter feed discussing mental health , and the players taking care of themselves …

I found this comment interesting

Jeff Allen,32, felt the need to speak out.

Allen. who played in Kansas City in 2012-15 and 2018-19, shared a lengthy message on Twitter, saying he stepped way from the NFL in part because of his mental well-being.

“Been thinking a lot about our former NFL brothers dying so young and I have to speak on it hopefully this helps someone,” Allen wrote.

“For the most part football is a poor man’s sport. There’s a few positions that are outliers like QB, Kicker, & Punter where majority of the athlete’s backgrounds is a privileged one.

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He’s not wrong.

Look, I get it’s counterintuitive on a football forum to acknowledge what he’s saying but willful ignorance is a poor excuse for remaining arrogant.

Maybe technology can assist here but we are now reminded damn near weekly the price paid so we can celebrate them for a few years before moving onto the next.

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From a book : could be socioeconomic related as a path out

"To Rhoden, this tale bursts with significance…to think only about individual success, never about a system that distributes power unequally "

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This is true, but there’s more to it than that, even.

You see this in cage fighters. These ppl were aggressive and violent long before they became fighters. I’ve heard Joe Rogan talk about “there’s just a look in that dudes’ eyes, where you can just sort of sense that you shouldnt’ mess with him.”

LOTS of people have this. Learning to control that energy and channel it into healthy ways.

Strength when projected through a lens of fear/scarcity looks like FORCE.
Strength when projected through a lens of love/abundance looks MAJESTIC.

People that feel like the world is out to get them show up that way in life. Constant abrasion and conflict.
People that feel like the world is safe show up “chill” as a MF’r.

I could talk about this dynamic for Hours.

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The background and learned behavior or values would still leak out as
What’s chill energy is different in different situations. At least I think

So that the areas and backgrounds and supports prop up these really young guys who frontal lob is hardly fully developed and can’t see ten years down road.

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This is part of the reason I loved Caldwell so much. He was a very clean energy that loved the guys from an incredibly honest space. He was such a good mentor for young players that were straight out of college.

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I think there is something to be said for the professional atmosphere , organized team he was presenting lions as

Recently I wondered if they didn’t fear him as being too successful and distorting lions operating procedure of being just relevant but not paying to win. He was making them s winner , a team they’d either need to spend on to push over the top or crash and go back to formula of selling 1st round draft picks and hope — that’s been a lions staple since 57

That’s my cynical me

Related , organizational leadership , varying backgrounds , value of people , mental health , etc …
the Tampa devil rays baseball In news
With what could be a fractured team in need of unity and leadership or a respectful team of individual choice.
I don’t mean to bend guidelines with a provacative inflammatory subject thsts not exactly lions
But I thought Is still interesting example within context of this discussion.

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