http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...tafford-because-he-won-t-open-?urn=nfl,151562 I'm not saying they should or shouldn't draft Stafford, but the concern that dropping back to pass with the game on the line, he might curl up in the fetal position crying and have to be carried off the field because his parents got divorced is just ludicrous. really, Mike Singletary?
I heard Stafford totally overreacted and acted like a baby when they wanted to talk to him about it. I don't blame Mr. Singletary at all.
I don't know if I'm more afraid of the 49ers wanting Stafford to talk to a shrink or Stafford REFUSING to talk to a shrink. I'm pretty open to the shitty childhood I had, watching my mom get she shit beat out of her daily and watch my sister get tossed across a room because she didn't clean a spoon. My dad was fucking great. :up:
Why did the 49ers think the divorce needed to be talked about? I'm fairly clueless as to why they'd want to drill down like that. Have high first round QB's from broken families not done well recently?
we played like ass that game, but to be fair we weren't really beaten by the Niners that day. we were beaten by the hoch
At 21, your parents getting divorced is a major event in your life and still very stressful. Not as bad as it would be on a young child, but it does still suck. They probly wanted info on how he was handling such a stressful situation. Once you hand the young man millions and make him the face of your franchise his life is going to be full of stress. If he's not willing to go over it in private it could lead one to wonder how he will handle the public critism and stress he is about to endure. Now, I'm not saying the 9ers have a great reason, but every little bit of extra info you can mine out of these kids before handing them a huge contract the better.
Great post. The kid's life is going to change drastically. If the 9ers feel it's a red flag, kudos to them for sniffing it out. Especially if he threw a hissy as alluded to earlier.
I don't think its a big deal that Stafford didn't want to talk to a shrink about his parents divorse. I would feel totally uncomfortable talking about that with a complete stranger
After having to deal with the Alex Smith failure, can you blame the Niners if they want to explore all angles with Stafford. Damn, can't he just say it was an unfortunate set of circumstances and move on?
After yesterday's private workout for Detroit, San Francisco won't have a chance for Stafford anyway..not if Detroit decides to go QB and doesn't trade for Cutler somehow.
Every source I've seen said he had an attitude issue with the team's psychiatrist and asked him something to the effect of 'how much are they paying you for this?' If he didn't have an attitude, clearly Singletary wouldn't be so quick to write him off.
I don't have a problem with the niners using it as a criterion---what I have a problem with is publicizing the results--in this case, that he wouldn't submit. If the NFL still had ethical integrity, they would whip the niners FO for this shit. What the fuck--is the NFL a reality TV show now?
Stafford was the one who revealed what they had talked about in the meeting and what he had said. If it were the psychiatrist, he wouldn't have a job. When the guy has already said all that, I don't think it's unethical for the niners to say that's the reason they aren't interested.
^fair enough--but who was the one who first mentioned that there was even a meeting? And even if it's Stafford, what's to make him think that it wouldn't come out? Maybe he wanted to pre-empt the news. I doubt there was a confidentiality agreement that he signed prior that guarenteed no mention of this procedure. If there was, and he spoke of it, then that's his shit. But I seriously doubt there was.
