Quote:What are the odds of that though?  I'm not optimistic that he's working on his conditioning if the reports that he's not really putting an effort into getting the other issues addressed are true. 

Difficult to say really.

 

I can easily see what you typed here coming to fruition, where he's saying to himself that he's not going to be reinstated any time soon so why bother working on my craft.

 

On the other, somehow I can possibly see him "compartmentalizing" these issues, where he can see football as important on the one hand, and be in complete denial about his substance dependence issues on the other.

 

From our detached perspective, we can see in this instance the two are intertwined, such that if he ever hopes to play football, he will have to address his issues with chemical dependence.

 

But an addicted individual doesn't process things the same way.

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