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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Yep, that is a career-ending move. That will cost him millions of lost income.
You do have to be somewhat sympathetic for the guy, though. Clearly his head isn’t screwed in right and he wasn’t logically thinking things through. Maybe too many concussions causing a lack of impulse control?
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"Yes, it fits perfectly. Sounds like a good story.
Short story by Herman Melville
Published in Putnam's Magazine, November–December 1853"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.
In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, responding to any request with the words "I would prefer not to."
The story likely takes place between 1848 and 1853, during the Antebellum Period in American history.
Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as "unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction" in the Melville canon.
His contract is reportedly $5 million for one year...Peanuts for the NFL...Probably not worth his time, anymore...
I suspect it’s something else altogether......it doesn’t take much to get these overpaid spoiled self entitled pro athletes noses out of joint nowadays.
e.g. Tyreek hills run in with law enforcement....
something as minor as a moving violation turned into something that should never have happened just because he refused to follow police directions.
Agree. He couldn’t suited up but felt awful and couldn’t play. Or he wanted to quit “dramatically”.Probably never know.
I understand you point. And generally I agree with it.
But if the coach or the “”sarge” has people doing that, then he hasn’t done their job correctly.
I used to work in college sports. I would go to all sports teams of my 20+ colleges and their opponents (so, about 400 teams a year over 14 years....so well over a few thousand games) and I only saw this happen once.
A pitcher came onto the field and threw some meatballs to the opposition. He loaded up the bases fast. Then he yelled at the coach. Told him to F off. Then he walked off the field.
It was something to behold. I never saw that particular coach so angry in the ten years I knew him. I think the rest of the team was more full of hate than the coaching staffing.
I was photographing the game. Needless to say, the Sports Information staff came over to me and made sure those images never saw the light of day. I did send one to the coach, at his request. I think he used it as a screen saver.
If I remember correctly, back in the early 70s there was a black Dallas Cowboys player that walked off the team during the game and never returned to play another game with the team. Does anyone remember that?
“ I could be wrong, but I don’t think we cavalierly shoot soldiers because they disobey an order. ”
Of course, but it was put that the conscript refused to charge a hill during a combat situation. I think that would be different.
“Probably not worth his time, anymore”
LOL...sad, but probably true. You’d think he’d at least have some honor and class. Departing in good graces (especially with the end of season nigh) would have made his next career easier to establish. Now he’s branded as an disloyal skunk.
He sounds mental.
“Yeah, they speak like ‘professionals.’”
LOL. One thing is for certain — they are not English professors.
Of course, the way the language has been slaughtered and butchered the past decades, maybe that’s what the English profs teach.
Another Damar Hamlin...?
“I thought there was no “I” in “TEAM.”
But there is a “me”
👍
Wait a sec! I thought there was no “I” in “TEAM.”
“Ain’t no ‘WE’ either”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BkIh1R5utY
Looks like LeBron just did the same thing.
Our son was at the game last night and saw it. He just texted me: “He actually walked right by us on the way to the locker room in the 3rd quarter. We were so confused because he hadn’t played yet, so he couldn’t have been injured. He just quit on the team!”
Could it be the Diddy-itis that has also suddenly seized the most overrated player in the history of basekeetball?
The 49ers are a pretty conservative team, at least among the players. The players had no problem with Nick Bosa wearing a MAGA hat.
The 49ers have a lot of devout Christian players. The media doesn't often show it, but they have a prayer circle after the game, usually with a player or coach from the other team joining.
The majority of football coaches may not even have known there was an election. The only think of football, and may not have any political beliefs.
But not all. Former Alabama coach Nick Saban is a Democrat. He was a dark horse candidate to be Kamala Harris' VP, and he may run for Senate as Democrat.
Kaepernick never refused to play.
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