Hard to tell to be honest. I think I try to use logic too much and transform the question at hand to what I would do.
However, I am just a spectator and who knows what they are thinking on their side of the fence.
There's a hell of a lot of fantasy football in these two sentences. That divide, given by the quote boxes, is sometimes right on top of each other and perfectly aligned, or the chasm is gaping and we have no idea exactly what the heck these guys are doing. (See Arthur Smith.) And for all the scorn the armchair guys take, sometimes guys get fired because they're just wrong and we're right. (See Arthur Smith.)
It's crazy sometimes. I try and judge the crazy coming from the players and organizations. It's why I hate the Ja'Marr Chase situation that I think only gets worse. They're both obviously looking out for their own interests and each is placing that interest above winning, and that's a cocktail for disaster. So I try and do what you do, King of the Jungle, which is to use logic to transform the question at hand to what I would do and then use that against my knowledge of coachspeak and player interviews, but the divide between what we think we know and what we know is vast so we go with what we got. Like in Mike Brown's case, it would be hard for me to think that Brown isn't feeling pressure from other owners to refuse Chase's demands. Chase is two years away from his next deal. In his case there is the possibility of a whacked slippery slope whereby deals are essentially not worth the paper they're printed on from the player's side, which would put them at about equal with the owners (except the owners are stuck with guaranteed money, which the players will see none of if this happens). That would be trouble in football. There would be a work stoppage at some point. But the sides are dug into concrete interests that now seem intractable. So here and in thinking of that, I'll leave you with this . . .
there are known knowns
there are things we know we know
We also know there are known unknowns
that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns
the ones we don't know we don't know
Donald Rumsfeld, 2002 February 12
(Taken from
Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Seely, Hart, Free Press (2009))
Hang this post in the ****ing Louvre, by the way.
eta* I'm really hyped on the Louvre today. Got that Lorde song running through my head now.
