(12-10-2024, 10:48 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(12-10-2024, 10:28 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: I think the big tell was the interview where TL said that while football was important, it wasnt the be-all and end-all of his life. While that healthy attitude is certainly true for most people regarding their job, ultimately thats not the mentality of most champions in life.  Thats also not the mentality that someone making multi-millions should have, whether they are wired that way or not. With great salary comes the obligation to immerse yourself mentally, physically, emotionally 100% into your job.

Well, I guess if you didn't read what he actually said you would believe that. Of course what he really said is something entirely different in an entirely different context:

“I want to do it because I want to be the best I can be. I want to maximize my potential. Who wouldn’t want to? You kind of waste it if you don’t.”

[font=mencken-std]“It’s hard to explain that because I want people to know that I’m passionate about what I do and it’s really important to me, but . . . I don’t have this huge chip on my shoulder, that everyone’s out to get me and I’m trying to prove everybody wrong,” he says. “I just don’t have that. I can’t manufacture that. I don’t want to.” Marissa adds, “There’s also more in life than playing football.”

“Yeah,” Trevor says. “And I think people mistake that for being a competitor. . . . I think that’s unhealthy to a certain extent, just always thinking that you’ve got to prove somebody wrong, you’ve got to do more, you’ve got to be better.”

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I miss the part where he says what motivates him.  I got all the parts where he says what doesn't motivate him, namely:

- a "huge chip on my shoulder"
- proving "everybody wrong"

And the part where he insists that not only he doesn't want to be motivated like that, but that can can't manufacture that motivation and doesn't want to.  In fact, thinking that way is a mistake.  As an NFL quarterback you don't "got to do more" you don't "got to be better."

And I heard the part where in his list of priorities, succeeding as an NFL quarterback is valued less than the idea that there is "more in life than playing football."

He wants to "maximise his potential. Who wouldn't want to?" But his quality of play suggests he could be maximising his potential right now.

He does say that he wants "people to know what he's passionate about" but then, as shown above, he spends all the rest of his time explaining what he isn't passionate about.  Namely doing more and being better as an NFL quarterback.

It happens frequently in life, particularly in elite sports, that gifted people reach a stage where they don't have the drive and determination to lift to the ultimate competitive level.  TL, unfortunately, doesn't have that motivation.   He told everyone that before his career started.  If his freakish natural talents, particularly a cannon for an arm, can carry him over the top in the NFL then he's content.  If those talents can't lift him to the top without a new level of dedication to excellence, well then there's "more to life than playing football."

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