Posted on 12/13/2024 8:16:02 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
San Francisco 49ers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell refused to enter Thursday’s game against the Rams, according to head coach Kyle Shanahan.
Campbell was spotted heading into the locker room during the third quarter of the 12-6 home loss. When reporters asked Shanahan about this, he replied, “He said he didn’t want to play today.”
The coach clarified that this conversation happened in the third quarter, when Campbell was asked to come in for Dre Greenlaw, who was dealing with Achilles fatigue and subbed out of the game. Shanahan added that this was the first time in his career that a player had quit on him in the middle of the game.
A clearly stunned press corps continued to pepper Shanahan with questions about this incident. One reporter asked what the coach needs to do to make sure he doesn’t lose anyone else in the locker room, and Shanahan replied firmly.
“Haven’t lost anybody,” Shanahan said. “That's somebody who doesn't want to play football anymore, it's pretty simple. I think our team and myself, we know how we feel about that, so I don't think we need to talk about him anymore.”
When the topic of Campbell’s desertion came up in linebacker Fred Warner’s presser, the team captain said he wanted to keep things “in-house” and did not offer a comment on the situation, even when he was asked a second time about it. That was the opposite of what cornerback Charvarius Ward told reporters in the locker room.
“I mean he a professional, he been playing for a long time,” Ward said of the 31-year-old. “I mean if he didn’t wanna play, he shouldn’t have dressed out. They could have told me that before the game. I feel like that was some sucker s—t that he did.
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There’s no De’Vondre Campbell either................
I’m jumping topics here, but this is one reason why a military draft would run into trouble. There is a generation of people who would largely say, “I’m not feelin’ it today, Sarge. Get somebody else to charge that hill.”
He just needed some “ME” time.
I thought there was no “I” in “TEAM.”
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Yeah, but there’s a “M-E” somewhere in there.
Too bad for the 9er’s; his trade value is now probably negative.
There has to be more to this story and it’s telling that another player and the coach don’t want to say what it is.
Trump Tantrum Syndrome (TTS) Grown men throwing tantrums left and right because Trump beat the Hoodoo woman.
“Shanahan added that this was the first time in his career that a player had quit on him in the middle of the game”
I beg to differ......it’s probably just the first time a player made it evident......how is a coach supposed to know a player is truly giving 100%?
There was a player on the team in my town that kept claiming injuries until they traded him......after he left he admitted that was what he was doing.....
There’s always an a hole, though.
The world wouldn't have suffered under Nazism and Communism if a bunch of folks had had that attitude in 1916.
Was this guy inspired by Antonio Brown, who similarly quit in the middle of a game?
“Trump Tantrum Syndrome”
Where you get that from?.....I saw nothing in the story to even suggest that.....not everything is all about DJT my friend.
“I’m not feelin’ it today, Sarge. Get somebody else to charge that hill.”
I believe at that point, you can, and would likely, be shot for insubordination or something. Sarge won’t take your crap, conscripted or enlisted.
Corner back in an AFC south team??
LOL...glad it was colored red for me.
“Hidden in the A-Hole” — sure fits this case, doesn’t it?
“I mean he a professional”.....I guess Charvarius missed english class
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