ReasonablySober wrote:Frank Nova wrote:Ayt wrote:
100%. They would be bending over backwards to help him which is great. This has nothing to do with mental health.
He's being a selfish stupid **** and you have people making up excuses for him based on nothing.
These posts aged like warm milk huh? Stupid and selfish and bull and all that huh? Yikes
Im sorry, but what? Again, they wouldn't have suspended him for "conduct detrimental to the team" if this was a mental illness issue. They would have made him Inactive due to a personal matter.
It's not cut-and-dry, and speaks I think to a broader misunderstanding of what it means to navigate mental health issues. Doubs could have been - and probably was - dealing with mental health issues that resulted in him throwing a tantrum and refusing to show up because of the role in the offense. It's quite clear to me from what MLF was saying earlier this week that he was having some issues with his role on offense. His mental health might have exacerbated how he reacted to it. Maybe a person in a better frame of mind would have realized that skipping practice wasn't going to solve that problem for him, and, if anything, made it worse. But that doesn't excuse the conduct, ultimately, and the Packers weren't going to let him slide by just saying "Oh, it was his mental health." Everyone has to navigate those things as a part of life, and it imposes stress on everyone's mental health.
That is different from a dude who is just depressed about life or dealing with severe anxiety or something like that where it isn't directly related to football disputes. That is something that would likely result in a different approach because the Packers wouldn't see it as a disciplinary issue.
