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Originally Posted by milkman
I disagree with the concept that "mailing it in" and "quiting are the same thing.
I'd like to have a team full of players that don't lose focus and concentration when they're 10 games in with only 2 or 3 wins, but that simply isn't possible.
But these guys aren't quiting.
Randy Moss just out and out quits.
He isn't trying to call up the focus and concentration.
He just doesn't give a damn.
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I'm curious - do you consider that more egregious than a holdout?
Vincent Jackson is going to hold out for 10 weeks purely to make more money. He's obviously putting himself ahead of his team and there's a definite me-first attitude at play there.
Brandon Marshall was a malcontent until he got his contract. Reevis would've stayed away had he not gotten paid.
Priest Holmes would've sat out an entire season without a new deal, IMO.
The disease is the same, the symptom is slightly different. All of these players put themselves ahead of their teams and decided that they didn't care enough about the game to play it under the terms of their old deal.
I just don't see the two circumstances as alarmingly different in that their underlying motivations are essentially the same - Me ahead of Team. If Vincent Jackson were available tomorrow, damn right I'd take him.
And I'd take Moss as well. I understand those that wouldn't, but I think at times you simply need to deal with mercurial talent as it is. Sometimes you just have to deal with the strangeness in pursuit of elite talent. Moss is that talent.