There’s no I in team

Brice, it is you that missed the entire point

 

but there is an A.

 

The internet is great for quick research and convenience but it takes away people from actually using critical thinking skills. Add on all the bad with social media and privacy issues then add in the fact that most younger people are zombies on the cell phone and can’t even hold a regular conversation anymore. I say this as I’m typing on my cell on a message board….

 

Some guys come into the league trying to be a brand instead of a human being …

Chase Claypool had a whole video series about when he first moved to Pittsburgh.

 

This was communication. And no answering machine.

 

Kids were always playing something in the street. I remember the drill when a car would start down our street while we playing street hockey. Someone would yell "Car!" and we'd go grab the nets and take them off the road and put them right back.

 

You all have to realize any player that is age 22 to age of 25 in today's NFL...

Was either born in anywhere from the late 90s to early 2000's.

Their entire life has had internet and most of their life has all social media,and cell phones.

And fantasy football has also been there, their the whole life, now enter gambling on sports everywhere all based on scores and stats.


So many of them aren't going to see team success as something to achieve, it's being an individual and having good stats.

If the Steelers win and George Pickens has 2 catches for 20 yards and no TD you think he's happy. ( See Titans game)

These players all know that big stats equal big contracts, if your a QB then you need the winning track record a bit more along with the stats.

But other position players, its stats, stats and more stats.

Want the big deal? You got to have stats. That is what the NFL has become.

So don't expect a everybody hand in the pile team effort stuff. You want that you better go watch high school or small college football.


Every team has to deal with this, very hard to navigate in the modern world.

Its not just football, its a lot of the modern workforce that has these same problems.

 

There's meat in this thread topic for sure.

 

I remember one of my dads friends telling a story about when they were young and my dad was standing there with a deer in the headlights look knowing he was about to be busted

 

But this is a high class message board

 

Yes it was Faneca but the context was a reporter asking how did he feel about it. Who would feel great about a rookie coming and starting vs the veteran. It wasn't in the context of not liking Ben. Nobody is thrilled when your rookie back up has to come in.

 

Quoting Michael Jordan, There is no I in team but there is an I in ‘win’

 

That's why I never cared for Smith-Schuster. He didn't even try to be transparent about his shameless self-promotion. The younger fans loved him because they can relate. This is all just a symptom of today's society.

 

We don't agree very often. Maybe because we're both smart-arse and sarcastic?

I too am thankful of the single home phone line, with a long cord that could stretch across the kitchen. If someone was on the phone (not that often, save for when my sister became a teen-ager), no one could call in/out.

What I am TRULY grateful for, is a childhood where parents weren't calling and texting me or requiring me to call or text them hourly or several times a day. When i went to school, after leaving the house, i was off-grid and on my own with friends/peers. I only got back on grid when i got home.

There are plusses to smartphones and internet, but we're ALL too connected and its taking a massive psychological toll on many. It's also the reason there is a growing and sizeable part of the population that remains single. They no longer HAVE to go out to start relationships (friends/love/whatever). They can sit at the PC or phone (like me and others on here right now) and converse.

Facebook friends, X followers or <insert flavor-of-the-day APP here) are rarely actual friends. So many kids, teens, and young adults have massive friend counts, and yet not a single person they can turn to or count on when they need a true friend. The only saving grace for the young is that this is the world they have grown up in and they don't know and can't know the better world before the always-on, 24 x 7 news/opinions society.

 

Agreed as well. I have fixed so many things around the house (replaced dryer drum, replaced rotors and pads on car, swapped out lawn mower engine) using youtube and other instructive methods. WE can also research deeply before a big purchase, such as a house, car, appliances, tools, etc. That said, I have lost a lot of time doing that research, so kind of a double-edge blade.

 

Exactly

Today I found obsolete plumbing parts for my sink, researched a treadmill and got airline tickets to visit my wife’s family all while lounging in the sofa.

But other than this message board I do no other form of social media. I have no sounds turned on for email or text so if you send me one don’t expect an instant response. You may not even get a response for a day or two.

 

Agree, I wonder if Steve Jobs could come back and see what the Iphone ultimately created if he had a chance would he un-invent it in a sense. I know others would come along, but you know what I mean. The worst of the new tech is social media which created "me people" and is the worst. Other than this place I don't have instagram, facebook, snap chat, twitter, etc etc. None of it. Work required a linked-in and I find the self promoting ("Congratulate myself on a promotion") as laughable. Humility is long gone. The spontaneous games me made up on the fly as kids or the carrying on of the games our older brothers and sisters played before us, was just fun. In the summer we got up and ate breakfast and then we were gone unless we wanted work assignments by making the fatal mistake of "I'm bored or we have nothing to do". We learned social skills, how to read people, resolve disagreements, learned to stand up and fight if needed but at the end nobody shot anybody or burned their house down, we just figured it out.

 

I was born in the 1950's and we didn't have running water in the house until I was around 6 years old. We had an outhouse and a hand pump built over a spring. If you wanted a warm bath you had to bring the water in, heat it up on the stove and pour it in a tub. We had a coal furnace so if you wanted to stay warm you had to split wood, shovel coal and keep the fire going. There wasn't any McDonald's or Burger King back then, if you wanted "fast food" you had to learn to shoot the deer that was sprinting across the field. We lived on my grandpa's property and he had an apple orchard, cherry, peach and plum trees. He had rhubarb plants, blackberry bushes and a big vegetable garden. Whenever we were outside playing and got hungry we ate the fruit and vegetables that were available during the summer. What a different life I lived than my grandkids do now. I sure am glad I grew up back then instead of now.

 

Agreed. They also don't retain any knowledge anymore. When they ask a college student, or HS ....how many states are in the the US, and they say around 30....You know there is a problem.
The difference is a lot of us had at least half of our lives without one...so it isn't our lives, but there are generations that's all they've had, and people try to say knowledge isn't lost to history.

 

I remember playing with my grandmas coal balls and coming upstairs covered in soot and man I got my arse paddled for that!! We ate the wild blackberries and raspberries. My bro's were born in the early 50's too and I had many of their toys growing up. I cheated in war in the neighborhood by using German Panzer Field Glasses to spot where the other kids were hiding in the fields. The swiss optics on those things were ridiculous. My Dad passed last year and he left them for me. Best set of optics I've ever looked through.

 

The internet has been good to me. Cannot complain. Thats how we all keep up on whats going on around the world since TV sucks and I have no intention of watching the propaganda BS on commercial tv. I also learned how to play the drums and ran my computer business mostly from videos and research online. There is a bad side to the internet for sure as there is with anything. The good people use it for good things and the bad people use it for bad.

 

Many years ago when I moved back to western PA with my wife from “New” Mexico and she would interview for jobs HR people would seriously say “you don’t look Mexican” she had blonde hair and blue eyes

She would have to explain to people that New Mexico is a state (right between Texas and Arizona so some of you don’t have to look it up)

 

Did they have small hands?

 

My wife's niece was worried about her truck driving husband making a long haul to New Mexico. She was afraid about him entering a foreign country. I told her that New Mexico is a state not a foreign country and she said "But it's not a real state is it?" She thought that it was a territory kind of under American control but not an actual state.