Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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BigOrange15 said:
If it doesn't represent you as a player or person, why did you do it? Something about that phrasing in every apology gets on my nerves tbh.
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I read that apology several times and it's pretty bad even by public apology standards. He's not even apologizing for the right thing.

'I apologize for stepping on Max Gilbert's foot'. If he'd just stepped on his foot he wouldn't have to apologize. He basically cleated him. He should have worded it differently to better reflect what he did wrong.

If you ever want to know if someone is sorry or not though look for the excuses they make for themselves in the apology. If they're making excuses then they're not really sorry. I see several excuses including the one you flagged.

'No matter the circumstances' is implying something happened where they were asking for it. The line about it not representing who I am as a person and the one about saying he's better than that is similar. It's a kind of defensiveness saying that he wouldn't usually do something like that and this was a one off aberration. He could say something like those actions don't represent the kind of person I want to be. That would be less defensive.

Apologizing isn't hard if you're actually sorry. The reason the phrasing gets on your nerves is that public apologies are usually done by people that are sorry they got caught, not sorry about what they did, and it comes across in how they word the 'apology'.
 
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triadvolfan said:
I read that apology several times and it's pretty bad even by public apology standards. He's not even apologizing for the right thing.

'I apologize for stepping on Max Gilbert's foot'. If he'd just stepped on his foot he wouldn't have to apologize. He basically cleated him. He should have worded it differently to better reflect what he did wrong.

If you ever want to know if someone is sorry or not though look for the excuses they make for themselves in the apology. If they're making excuses then they're not really sorry. I see several excuses including the one you flagged.

'No matter the circumstances' is implying something happened where they were asking for it. The line about it not representing who I am as a person and the one about saying he's better than that is similar. It's a kind of defensiveness saying that he wouldn't usually do something like that and this was a one off aberration. He could say something like those actions don't represent the kind of person I want to be. That would be less defensive.

Apologizing isn't hard if you're actually sorry. The reason the phrasing gets on your nerves is that public apologies are usually done by people that are sorry they got caught, not sorry about what they did, and it comes across in how they word the 'apology'.
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Put him on blast on the twitter machine
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
Because if one of the starting 5 goes out, we’re suddenly facing a lot of uncertainty.

I haven’t been too impressed with any of the backup OL play.
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Grant looks really unathletic. Satterwhite looks like concrete in his shoes. Warren looks ok. Anderson looks pretty good. Ogumoro (sp?) looks athletic but lost right now.

Curious why no Ginther or J Heard. Any news on their progression? Duncan hurt?
 
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jave36 said:
Jason's wife has almost completely disappeared. Jason has started disappearing. That's the first sign that we're moving on from them. Travis isn't even everywhere anymore. We're headed in the right direction.

It's crazy that Taylor Swift was so popular that Jason's wife got ultra famous even 3 degrees of separation away.
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That would make sense. Jason's wife is the only one of the four (her, Jason, Travis, and Taylor Swift) whose claim to fame is solely tied to being related to someone else who is famous.

Jason Kelce was an NFL player, and a damn good one at that. Same for Travis. Taylor Swift is well, Taylor Swift. They all have their own claims to fame; she doesn't.
 
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