NBA OFF TOPIC THREAD

[tlance]

I’m assuming you’ve never played football. Players play hurt all of the time. I haven’t seen one person in the media criticize Arians.

So what.

I am criticizing him.

He didn’t handle it well.

If you take the risk of signing a player like Brown, then bring him back to win games after he fakes his vaccine card, then you reap what you sow.

 

[bksballer89]

So what.

I am criticizing him.

He didn’t handle it well.

If you take the risk of signing a player like Brown, then bring him back to win games after he fakes his vaccine card, then you reap what you sow.

You are not allowed to have your opinion. Must agree with everything they say in the media

 

[tlance]

This. Arians loses the team if he lets AB walk all over him.

Really?

Do you honestly believe he loses the team if he sends AB in with the trainer and then cuts him before the post game presser is over?

Really?

There are a lot of ways to hold someone accountable without doing it in a way that creates a public spectacle.

 

[trojanfan12]

I said what I did because I have a lot of personal experience working from a position of authority and working with very difficult people. So my perspective is different from theirs.

Unless your experience is with adult NFL players, no you don't have more experience dealing with issues. Dealing with children and adults are completely different. I have a lot of experience dealing with difficult children and with difficult adults...they are not the same.

 

[tlance]

Unless your experience is with adult NFL players, no you don't have more experience dealing with issues. Dealing with children and adults are completely different. I have a lot of experience dealing with difficult children and with difficult adults...they are not the same.

Of course it is different.

Much harder dealing with children. Especially when you can’t cut the ones you don’t want to work with.

But AB acts like a child, so maybe not that different.

Point remains.

You give an ultimatum to an unstable person, however old they may be, and they are going to react poorly.

 

[Heatles84]

Really?

Do you honestly believe he loses the team if he sends AB in with the trainer and then cuts him before the post game presser is over?

Really?

There are a lot of ways to hold someone accountable without doing it in a way that creates a public spectacle.

Maybe the trainer already saw him and said AB was good to go. At that point others on that team are likely playing hurt and if Arians have AB a pass, yeah it would piss them off.

Turns out AB wasn’t hurt after all as has been mentioned.

 

[tlance]

Maybe the trainer already saw him and said AB was good to go. At that point others on that team are likely playing hurt and if Arians have AB a pass, yeah it would piss them off.

Turns out AB wasn’t hurt after all as has been mentioned.

Except he was definitely hurt.

He was a game time decision due to an ankle that had bothered him most of the season and he re-tweaked in practice.

Maybe the trainers and Arians didn’t think he was too hurt to play.

But if AB did not think he was okay to play, then he gets to make the decision for his body.

 

[trojanfan12]

Of course it is different.

Much harder dealing with children. Especially when you can’t cut the ones you don’t want to work with.

But AB acts like a child, so maybe not that different.

Point remains.

You give an ultimatum to an unstable person, however old they may be, and they are going to react poorly.

The only ultimatum he was given was when he was first signed. The ultimatum was that if he has any more incidents, he's gone. If the Bucs made a mistake, it was in giving him a 2nd chance and not cutting him over the fake vaxx card.

 

[tlance]

The only ultimatum he was given was when he was first signed. The ultimatum was that if he has any more incidents, he's gone. If the Bucs made a mistake, it was in giving him a 2nd chance and not cutting him over the fake vaxx card.

Exactly.

They did not do what they said they were going to do.

Arians mistake again.

 

[trojanfan12]

Exactly.

They did not do what they said they were going to do.

Arians mistake again.

lol

And if they cut him then, you'd on here saying the Bucs overreacted.

He's a grown ass man and needs to handle his own shit. This not on the Bucs or Arians. This is 100% on AB.

You can try to make all of the excuses you want. It won't change the fact that AB is responsible for his own actions and he is now paying the consequences of those actions.

 

[thunderc]

In this day and time you damn well better do things the right way, you might hurt someone’s feelings

 

[thunderc]

lol

And if they cut him then, you'd on here saying the Bucs overreacted.

He's a grown ass man and needs to handle his own shit. This not on the Bucs or Arians. This is 100% on AB.

You can try to make all of the excuses you want. It won't change the fact that AB is responsible for his own actions and he is now paying the consequences of those actions.

I briefly saw Jalen Rose this afternoon not taking the opportunity to stick up for Brown. So we know he literally has nothing.

 

[thunderc]

Lame

Lmao, he had a well choreographed goidbye to the entire league yesterday, followed by releasing a rap song. I wish him luck in his new career.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Exactly.

They did not do what they said they were going to do.

Arians mistake again.

I really felt like you were taking a contrarian angle on Simmons and his mental health but this is pretty blatantly obvious.

Yes AB is in control of his own body, no that does not mean he gets carte blanche to refuse to honor his contract. Otherwise any athlete could sign a huge deal and just feign injury for the whole thing.

It's highly.unusual to address said situation in the middle of a game, I will grant you that but AB is a whole other ball game. Literally everyone is tired of his bullshit.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Although I will agree that AB is legitimately insane whereas Ben Simmons is exaggerating Phillystagefrightitis to cash a check.

 

[tlance]

lol

And if they cut him then, you'd on here saying the Bucs overreacted.

He's a grown ass man and needs to handle his own shit. This not on the Bucs or Arians. This is 100% on AB.

You can try to make all of the excuses you want. It won't change the fact that AB is responsible for his own actions and he is now paying the consequences of those actions.

Hell no.

Might of criticized them for signing him.

 

[tlance]

I really felt like you were taking a contrarian angle on Simmons and his mental health but this is pretty blatantly obvious.

Yes AB is in control of his own body, no that does not mean he gets carte blanche to refuse to honor his contract. Otherwise any athlete could sign a huge deal and just feign injury for the whole thing.

It's highly.unusual to address said situation in the middle of a game, I will grant you that but AB is a whole other ball game. Literally everyone is tired of his bullshit.

Then cut him!

Simple and clean.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Then cut him!

Simple and clean.

I suspect they will pay him and inactivate him for the last game so that no one else can claim him.

 

[tlance]

I suspect they will pay him and inactivate him for the last game so that no one else can claim him.

And they could have easily done that without the histrionics.

 

[fightinfunbags]

AB has been coddled pretty much his whole life. Let’s not keep using CTE as an excuse why a player acts up the way they do.

Have you examined him? I’m not sure how you can rule that out knowing that he has a concussion history.