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You know you mention his mental stability.His natural ability or even his potential was never a question. His mental stability hindered his success more than anything. And now, years later he is just now coming to the realization that it's not all about him is just too late. He should have had that mentality in his prime. He can Tweet all he wants with videos of him catching passes with no legit NFL defense, it doesn't change the fact that the game has passed him by.
I used to get mad at him with his mental things, too.
Like that time he hurt his knee and he skipped his mandatory exam with the team doctor.
Later he admitted he was scared he had Injured it badly and too afraid to know the truth.
What a human emotion any of us might have had.
Shortly after that I found a video about his life and what he dealt with growing up watching his mother as a prostitute earning money to feed her family.
He talked about seeing strange men showing up at his house to do his mom and him being sent to his room where he would turn up the TV to drown out the noises.
Can any of us imagine this? Can we imagine the anger he grew up with from this?
I can't thank god.
But after seeing this video, I stopped being critical of him. I accepted him for who he was and was happy for his success however imperfect.
And as a guy who always wanted to be a Cowboy and still does..
what we need is another 52 like him and we could rule the NFL.