(07-27-2021, 08:51 PM)DC 86 Wrote:(07-27-2021, 08:35 PM)Phogge Wrote: Luck played all 16 regular season games and two playoffs and retired after the season.
He quit on nobody in the middle of competition.
I don't think Luck "quit" on anybody given his physical/mental situation, but he retired one week before the start of the season, not "after the season". If he has retired "after the season" the Colts would have had time to make adjustments instead of wasting a season before being able to reset their roster. Luck retired between the last preseason game and the first regular season game, pretty unsettling for the team to lose their starting QB at that point, not that different from Biles quitting between the the preliminary and final rounds of the team competition; unfortunate but others took her place and actually performed well. Neither situation was good, but in any case I don't think Luck or Biles felt they had a real choice in their minds, which is what really matters.
Why are you insisting on equating two entirely different situations?
And specifically, how do you know Luck quit because of mental health issues, as opposed to having the ever-loving crap beaten out of him for years and the inability to recover physically from same?
(07-28-2021, 11:46 AM)martyup Wrote: Well, IMO the press can look in the mirror to find the reason Biles withdrew from the competition. I have watched them build her up as the GOAT and a sure lock on multiple gold medals at the Olympics. They have aired numerous video profiles building her up as this amazing and invincible gymnastics machine. When I saw the build up, I thought to myself that this was a perfect set up for a let down. That is too much pressure to put on a person that has suffered so much abuse in her short lifetime. It turns out that she is a human, not a machine. The press didn't get their scripted glorious ending. I hope Simone can move on and live a long and happy life.
The press didn't force Simone Biles to inscribe "GOAT" on her leotard or what have you. Please. She embraced whatever you believe the press built up.
She got the yips (or "twisties"), plain and simple. As as someone noted, yips in gymnastics can be dangerous, so she bowed out. Her decision. Sucks for her and her teammates, but that's life.