So posters aren't complex individuals who are capable of having their own opinions on matters? Seriously, you are essentially castigating posters who don't conform to your platonic ideal.mrt144":1hdso0of said:MontanaHawk05":1hdso0of said:knownone":1hdso0of said:He will take on substantial risk if he attempts to play 4 years on what essentially amounts to one-year contracts.
And what if he doesn't see it that way?
How Wilson sees it is everything. Not "what's true even if Wilson doesn't see it".
One thing that constantly frustrates me is people assigning a rational 'non football player' motive to football players despite big differences in the circumstances from where they're pulling that rational motive model from and applying it to. Basically ignoring cool cats like Marshawn Lynch doing what they do, players hanging it up in their prime leaving 50 mil in earnings on the table, etc etc.
To me, superimposing what you would do or what people in your field do, is a faulty basis for prescribing what players should do. Key Example: People crapping on Okung for playing his own agent cause he was curious about what he could do there. Is it rational to explore your nascent curiosity at the expense of potential future earnings? Probably not, but given Okung's situation, stability, past earnings, what did he really have to lose from his perspective besides a marginal amount of money on top of past earnings? And what did he have to gain - satisfying a cognitive itch he always had that he may never get to scratch again outside of football.
I am going to talk some smack towards fellow posters here but some of you guys are so basic that you can't appreciate that football players are more complex individuals than you want them to be and give them credit for. Some of you don't even really hide that you want anonymous robotic grunts playing the game for your entertainment - you just articulate that desire in ways that dance around explicitly saying that by castigating any player who doesn't conform to that platonic ideal in your mind with hilarious little nitpicks.
Football is just a business, it's not as if these guys are topologists, specialing in triadic homotopy groups, that only people who do it professionally would understand. No, it's basic finance and negotiation, and just because some of us agree or disagree with a certain players stance does not mean we think they should be dehumanized or treated like automatons.
If players want to play with risk more power to them. If they want to retire and leave millions on the table, then they should absolutely do what is best for them. However, fans can also have an opinion and give their perspective on what they would do in those situations, otherwise... what the heck are we even doing here discussing these things.