Hello again, as I shit here reflecting on my day, I thought I would lay virtual pen to virtual pad. First, an shootout bowl game ended 51-31 in favor of the red blob things of western Kentucky. I’ll mark that down as 1 for 1 in my completely meaningless, yet spot on bowl prediction. Second, I want to address the stories I am seeing of players not playing in their bowl game to focus on the NFL draft. Fucking Charmin….. soft. I get that the bowl game doesn’t really matter and there is a threat of injury that could cost you precious draft spots and in the end dollars. But listen, you’re being a real sally, and a big bag of coal and karma are gonna be in your stockings for Christmas. Just think about the dad that surprised his 8 year old son with bowl game tickets for his birthday. The kid is so excited and refuses to wear anything but his Fournette, or Mccaffrey, or Linwood jersey until the game. Now hat dad has to explain to his son that his hero won’t be playing because he doesn’t wanna get a boo boo. The kid is crushed and refuses to play football ever again in spite of his hero. That kids dreams are ruined and that is on you. If you can live with crushing a little kids dreams, go ahead skip the game, he won’t forget and either will I. You have an obligation to your school, fans, coaches and other players to play your ass off for all of your games. The bowl game still counts, they keep score, it will be in the record books.
Rebuttal: Great points! But these bowls mean nothing at all and an injury could cost them millions of dollars and maybe even their career.
Response: Great question! Well then why play any games after you’re out of contention for the playoff? Might as well just sit out every game if you know you won’t make the top 4. It’s football, injuries happen. What if forunette plays and tears his ACL therefor dropping his draft stock to another team where he has a great career after recovering from injury. A career that would’ve never happened if he got drafted to the damn browns.
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Response: 1 damn guy gets injured in a bowl game (He has said he would still play in the game if he had to live it all over again) and everyone goes crazy. He is making 6.5 million over 4 years and is on one of the best teams in football, he will be ok
This is a very slippery slope. I can see players pulling out left and right now and if that continues to happen, bowl games may be irrelevant.
For what it’s worth, if I’m Forunette, I’m playing and hoping for an injury so I don’t have to play for the 0-16, where talent goes to die, browns.
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