Step 2: Rationalization

It's pathetic. So many of these posters could never make it as Royals fans.

I think the trade (Myers, Smith, etc., doesn't matter) was a great idea!

We've already got people throwing up "highlight reels" of him dinking and dunking down the field acting like it's awesome.

You're not impressed with positive attributes like being extremely accurate with short-yardage passes?

Middling in the short-term and disastrous for the long-term. We're back to hoping that we fall ass backwards into a legitimate QB.

When we acquired Cassel, I said the same thing then, noting that the unintentional consequence could be us getting a chance to select Barkley in three years (who was the most highly regarded young QB entering college at the time).

But we'll have to wait on that type of dream. Should change the team name to the Kansas City Eunuchs, placing an empty nut sack on the side of the helmet.

1. SHOCK & DENIAL-
You will probably react to learning of the loss with numbed disbelief. You may deny the reality of the loss at some level, in order to avoid the pain. Shock provides emotional protection from being overwhelmed all at once. This may last for weeks.

2. PAIN & GUILT-
As the shock wears off, it is replaced with the suffering of unbelievable pain. Although excruciating and almost unbearable, it is important that you experience the pain fully, and not hide it, avoid it or escape from it with alcohol or drugs.

You may have guilty feelings or remorse over things you did or didn't do with your loved one. Life feels chaotic and scary during this phase.

3. ANGER & BARGAINING-
Frustration gives way to anger, and you may lash out and lay unwarranted blame for the death on someone else. Please try to control this, as permanent damage to your relationships may result. This is a time for the release of bottled up emotion.

You may rail against fate, questioning "Why me?" You may also try to bargain in vain with the powers that be for a way out of your despair ("I will never drink again if you just bring him back")

4. "DEPRESSION", REFLECTION, LONELINESS-
Just when your friends may think you should be getting on with your life, a long period of sad reflection will likely overtake you. This is a normal stage of grief, so do not be "talked out of it" by well-meaning outsiders. Encouragement from others is not helpful to you during this stage of grieving.

During this time, you finally realize the true magnitude of your loss, and it depresses you. You may isolate yourself on purpose, reflect on things you did with your lost one, and focus on memories of the past. You may sense feelings of emptiness or despair.

7 Stages of Grief...

5. THE UPWARD TURN-
As you start to adjust to life without your dear one, your life becomes a little calmer and more organized. Your physical symptoms lessen, and your "depression" begins to lift slightly.

6. RECONSTRUCTION & WORKING THROUGH-
As you become more functional, your mind starts working again, and you will find yourself seeking realistic solutions to problems posed by life without your loved one. You will start to work on practical and financial problems and reconstructing yourself and your life without him or her.

7. ACCEPTANCE & HOPE-
During this, the last of the seven stages in this grief model, you learn to accept and deal with the reality of your situation. Acceptance does not necessarily mean instant happiness. Given the pain and turmoil you have experienced, you can never return to the carefree, untroubled YOU that existed before this tragedy. But you will find a way forward.

7 stages of grief...

You will start to look forward and actually plan things for the future. Eventually, you will be able to think about your lost loved one without pain; sadness, yes, but the wrenching pain will be gone. You will once again anticipate some good times to come, and yes, even find joy again in the experience of living.

Welcome Floppy to bargaining.

LMAO Preeeeeetty much.

The West Coast offense is a scheme that can be run a hundred different ways.

Just because Smith and Reid both are familiar with the system doesn't mean they both are suited to run it the same way.

Alex Smith is a guy that needs protection. Harbaugh protected him and that's why he tried to get Manning and then replaced Smith with Kaepernick.

Harbaugh saved Smith's career but still knew that Alex Smith was a limitation.

This X1000

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I'm just wondering how long I'm going to have to listen to people bitch and moan? Until the beginning of the season? Training camp? Draft? Free agency?

I'll go on record as saying I liked the trade and I think he's going to do good. We're going to pick a qb in the draft and that will be qbotf.

Where in the draft?

Not clutch, he shit his pants in that nfc championship game, I don't care what anybody says.

I can't keep up with both of your personalities. Which one is how you really feel?

Flop, you have me confused with that dickhead Marcus Halberstram. Understandable since we go to the same barber although I have a slightly better haircut.