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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
You're mentioning extraordinary players: Gonzalez, Chris Carter, Randy Moss. These guys are sure-fire Hall of Famers - Duh.
What about the non-Hall of Fame guys? The other 1,689 football players in the league? They're just hanging on to their jobs by a thread. The Chiefs are a perfect example of that. How would you like to be Pollard or Page or Morgan at this point after the Chiefs signed Brown? Personally if I were Brown, I wouldn't help them at all. This is probably his last chance to play football.
Again (for the 100th time), this mentoring business is highly overrated by the fans.
And pointing out HOFer's does nothing to support the fact that is does exist in spades.
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Actually it does. You think it's a coincodence that the guys I mentioned are either great players or HoF type players, and that those guys tried to learn as much as they could from a mentor?
I already noted, Sapp was in the last days of his career and he said the guys he was trying to help didn't care. So that pretty much blows the "If I were Mike Brown" bit out the water.
I said it before, the young guys that want to become great players will use these vets to their advantage. The ones that don't, won't, and in a few years they will be out of the league. If you look at every great player most of them always give credit to a former pro for helping them. Brady even did so with Bledsoe MANY times. Priest Holmes credited Ernest Byner all the time for helping him become a better player. I could go on and on and on. Generally the great players learned from someone because it's damned difficult to become great without soaking up that knowledge from them. So basically your line that "it's a myth" is BS. These are exceptions. It's pretty common.