re: Be careful about how you talk about the players

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TL;DR 20 year olds are not "kids" & competition wins

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I think many of you are missing the point. This isn't about feeling bad for Harris because he lost the starting job. It's about having a little sympathy considering what he's going through on the outside and how it affects him on the inside.

The other issue I have is all the comments that are essentially "welcome to the real world." Nothing about this situation is anywhere close to the real world. The average 20 year old doesn't have his career flame out in front of 70k of his supporters and 900k people watching from home. The average 20 year old doesn't walk away to a chorus of boos from those "supporters", get death threats because of his performance, have national television shows criticize his performance, wade through baseless insults on social media, etc.

Do I wish he would have handled this better in public? Yes, certainly. Does it change the fact that I'm sympathetic to what he has to deal with as a result of failing on such a large and public stage despite his best efforts to win for the team we all love? No, no it does not.