No one is indispensable.
This is the eternal theorem of the entire laws of nature. Without any one person, the earth will still rotate, the sun will still rise, the tides will still rise and fall, the world will still be the same world, and nothing will change drastically. This is true of life, and so is professional sports.
In professional sports leagues headed by the NFL, no one is irreplaceable.
The fall or departure of a player is always accompanied by the emergence of younger, more energetic and stronger choices. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the waves in front die on the beach. Sometimes, there is no need for the wave behind to push, and the wave has disappeared on its own. In that vast ocean.
Even top stars like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are not the only ones who are irreplaceable. If they slack off in training, if they are injured, if they lose their form, there are still countless new generation quarterbacks behind them waiting to replace them; even if they go all out to maintain their form, among the professional leagues A pack of wolves are waiting around, looking for opportunities to defeat them.
Aldon Smith is certainly no exception.
It is true that Aldon is a defensive genius, but is such a genius only seen once in ten years or once in a century? The difference exists objectively; and even if a genius is once in a century, if he doesn't know how to cherish his talent and keeps squandering his time, it will only be a matter of time before he is abandoned and eliminated.
The team won't care, teammates won't care, and fans won't care. One Aldon has disappeared, but there are still thousands of Smiths waiting for the opportunity to show their talents; one talented player may change the situation of the game, but the rugby game requires the united efforts of fifty-three players to win, " 1:53", how to choose, this is not a mathematical problem.
In other words, no one cares about his career except the player himself.
For teams and agents, players are just commodities. After careful packaging and painstaking management, they are eager to make huge profits.
For fans, players are the objects they chase and pursue, but in the final analysis, before the team and the players, they will always choose the former.
For the players' families, they wholeheartedly support the players in pursuing their careers, but in the end they are just a group of bystanders who cannot empathize.
Only the player himself, his career has always been in his own hands. Randy Moss, known as the most talented person in history, wandered around the league for fifteen years before winning his first Super Bowl championship ring with the San Francisco 49ers. The only thing that can change Moss's destiny is Just himself.
The same is true for Aldon Smith now.
According to American cultural habits, Lu Ke should let Aldon go. He needs to choose the teammates in front of him, not the willful "proud man of heaven."
Lu Ke has tried his best, and he tried his best to help Al Dong; but if even Al Dong himself doesn't care, he will be helpless. He should not interfere too much in Al Dong's life - he is not Al Dong's agent, he Not even the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Aldon is not his responsibility and it shouldn't be his responsibility.
But the reason why Lu Ke is Lu Ke, and the reason why the San Francisco 49ers are the San Francisco 49ers, is because in this team, they are not mercenaries gathered together for the game and victory, they are warriors and comrades fighting side by side.
Moss said at the beginning that in the New England Patriots, everyone gathers together for victory. They can enjoy the joy of victory and taste the bitterness of failure, but they cannot share every detail of life. Of course, this can also be seen as a kind of professionalism in professional sports, with a clear distinction between public and private matters.
It's just that this isn't the San Francisco 49ers' style.
When comrades face difficulties and crises and are stuck in the quagmire, they must help. "Don't abandon, don't give up." This slogan sounds extremely hypocritical, but it is the truth summarized after bloody battles on the battlefield. Because only in this way can they survive side by side in this cruel and bloody war.
Ardon is more than just his teammate. They are friends and they are comrades-in-arms.
Reason told Lu Ke that he had fulfilled his responsibility, and the rest should be up to Aldon himself; but emotion told Lu Ke that Aldon needed him.
"You guys start first." Lu Ke left a few words, turned around and left in large strides.
Logan and Marcus exchanged glances, then followed suit.
Seeing this, Justin quickly raised his voice and said, "Pay attention to Bambi, don't let Bambi get hurt!" After shouting, Justin clenched his fist, pounded the table hard, then took out his mobile phone and dialed As expected, Ardon's phone only rang twice before being hung up, "Damn guy!"
Justin is also the big brother in the defensive team. After transferring to the San Francisco 49ers in 2008, he spent five seasons here in the blink of an eye. All his brilliance and achievements were created by this team in this city. Although he spent seven seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, his inner belonging has always belonged to San Francisco.
Now that Aldon has another problem, Justin is no less worried than Willis.
Lu Ke and the others had just left, and Justin immediately started making phone calls, from Willis to Aldon's agent, to Trent Balk... The only hope now is that Aldon will not return to his old ways. Who would have thought that the MVP of the team last season would become a time bomb in the team this season?
The room resounded with Justin's continued dialing, while everyone else fell silent, creating an unnatural silence.
Jon waited and waited, but finally couldn't hold it back and said with confusion, "So? Why does everyone look like the sky is falling? Aldon is an adult, he has already been eighteen He's old, isn't he? He should be responsible for his actions and choices. Why are a bunch of people following his butt? Even if he is missing, the team will not collapse, right?"
Jon's words ring true.
For most teams and in most contexts, there is nothing wrong with his words. Jon still looked at the entire incident from a professional sports perspective, so naturally he couldn't understand Lu Ke's choice and Justin's concerns.
Jon’s attitude is not much different from when Moss first came into the team last year. But the problem is that Moss has both talent and ability. He relied on his performance to occupy a place, but he encountered obstacles in integrating into the team. Then there was a conflict between Moss and Lu Ke. The subsequent story everyone We all know it; but Jon has nothing, so now Jon is still unable to gain a foothold, let alone integrate into the team.
Justin glanced back at Jon, his eyes full of confusion about wanting to speak, but in the end he said nothing and lowered his head to get busy again.
Yes, for most people, the fanatical atmosphere in the San Francisco 49ers locker room is difficult to understand. They still can't understand why the term "warrior" has special meaning to the entire team; if Jon After staying in San Francisco for half a season and still refusing to understand this team, maybe they are not the same people.
Jon felt Justin's eyes and became more and more confused, "What's going on? Did I say something wrong? Who cares about Aldon Smith? Lu Ke is our quarterback, isn't he?"
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"Bambi, calm down."
Sitting in the passenger seat, Logan repeated the same words for the hundred and one time; and Marcus, who was sitting in the back seat, did not sit idle, he simply sat up on his knees and stood up from between the two seats. He leaned out of the gap and repeated parroting, "Bambi, be calm. This is not a big deal. Maybe, maybe something unexpected happened that we didn't expect? We shouldn't preset a pessimistic situation in advance. Isn’t it?”
If Lu Ke hadn't been holding the steering wheel with both hands now, he really wanted to beat up the two noisy guys next to him. He was regretting for the hundred and second time why he stopped the car to let the two people sit on instead of stepping on the accelerator. Just walk away?
"I'm calm now, but if you two continue to make noise, I can't guarantee it." Lu Ke squeezed out the words almost through gritted teeth.
Logan and Marcus exchanged glances, and they could both feel the tension of Lu Ke's teeth clashing. They hesitated whether they should shut up, and finally Logan asked hesitantly, "Are you...are you sure? "
"Yes." Lu Ke didn't want to say any more, and before Logan spoke again, he said in advance, "Shh! Shut up, if there is any more noise, I will stop the car and throw you two out. "
"Hey, that's not fair! You can't punish me because of Logan!" Marcus complained immediately.
"Sound! I said, any sound!" Lu Ke finally understood what it felt like for Monk Tang to recite sutras. "Shhhhhhhh!" Seeing that they were still arguing, Lu Ke stopped them.
The world is finally quiet.
Logan and Marcus secretly exchanged a glance and let out a breath - they had just done it on purpose, deliberately making Lu Ke relax in a ridiculous way, at least now the tight smell of gunpowder has dissipated a lot; now , they can only hope that Aldon is asking for his own blessings. Unless Aldon can find a strong reason to explain his absence today - or being late, otherwise today's scene will be very bloody.
There was a rumor circulating within the San Francisco 49ers: If Hubble is angered, it will be a disaster, but at most it will be a storm; never anger Lu Ke, because this is Pandora's box, and you will definitely You won't want to find out what's hidden in the box.
