by Oly » Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:27 pm
I'm with you asea and Mack. You've got livelihoods, legacies, and chances to bolster arguments for Canton on the line. If this were high school or college, then I'm with trents 100%. Even with NIL rules, those are still students, and athletics ought to serve the educational function of those institutions. So then you'd teach Kelce a lesson.
But in the pros a coaches job isn't to teach character. It's to win. If he thought that he had to bench Kelce to teach a lesson and that lesson had to be taught to keep discipline of the team, then fine. Even in that situation, though, Reid would have to think that benching Kelce would result in better odds of winning. Clearly, Kelce is more valuable as a player than as an example, so Reid did the right thing.
And Kelce will of course have to accept whatever discipline is levied behind closed doors.
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Oly on Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.