The Hitch said:
on3m@n@rmy said:
Here is the real truth in response to the ESPN Seth Wickersham article (link posted above) about Seattle's "locker room". [
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...locker-room-is-different-that-makes-us-great/]
According to WR Doug Baldwin disputes within the locker room are about healthy competition, which makes the team better:
“I know that our locker room is different,” Baldwin said. “We have a lot of vibrant personalities that are not hesitant to share their emotions and their opinions, but that’s what makes us great. And Pete Carroll has embraced that environment, he’s made that environment. We celebrate individuality and he’s done a great job of handling those different personalities and giving us a platform to express ourselves because ultimately he feels that in doing so, that’s how we become the best version of ourselves on the football field.”
Baldwin said the ESPN article that portrayed problems between quarterback Russell Wilson and players on the defense hadn’t caused any problems on the team.
“There was no issues with the article because we’re a family. Yeah, we do argue, we do have disagreements, but at the end of the day, we know what we’re fighting for, we know we’re going in the same direction,” he said.
Some people just don't get that and I'll go out on a limb to say why I think the players get it, beyond Baldwin's explanation that Carroll created this environment. Players today are millenials, who think differently than older generations. First, on the whole millenials are smarter, more educated. That's a stat, a fact. Also, they tend to go with or side with whatever is best for the common good. Self need is generally more suppressed (except when it comes to player contracts, right? Lol). So it is no wonder that there can be diverse differences in opinion while the players still get on well. As Doug said, "going in the same direction". You still have to give credit to coach Carroll for embracing individuality, but the ingredients for that kind of environment are already present in the players.
As a millenial, I 100% disagree with your portrayal of millenials. We are the weakest dumbest ggeneration in some time. Of course that wont necessarily apply to nfl players, who are more likely to come from tougher backgrounds and obviously have better work ethic. But the generation as a whole is pathetic. And what to expect when most of us grow up with everything given to us on a plate and what's more access to all sorts of double edged luxuries through technology that no one has previously had. Most are unable to hold a conversation for 3 minutes without impulsively checking what food their friends posted they are eating on Facebook. STATS, do show that young people are far less likely to actually have real conversations especially with people older than them. The respect for older people is lacking ( a real sign of total ignorance) as many think they have figured out The world by The age of 20 and have nothing to learn from older people cod we are so smart. In fact let's ban all older people from voting seemingly half of millenials were posting after brexit, because how dare a old idea such as democracy stop our great generation from saving the world once and for all ( its easy. Your generations were just too dumb to figure it out). The american university system is being destroyed where free speech no longer exists.
Well, you can certainly disagree. But I will stand behind everything I said about millennials (in the USA OFC as I don't know what the situation is around the world) being smarter and more educated than previous generations in the USA. Here are some research results presented by a US-based research organization) to back up that fact:
Four-in-ten Millennial workers ages 25 to 29 had at least a bachelor’s degree in 2016, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Current Population Survey data. That compares with 32% of Generation X workers and smaller shares of the Baby Boom and Silent generations when they were in the same age range.
In 2016, almost half (46%) of employed Millennial women ages 25 to 29 had a bachelor’s degree or more, up substantially from 36% of Gen X women workers when they were the same age in 2000. Millennial men in the workforce are also more likely to hold a bachelor’s degree than their Gen X counterparts were as young adults. Among employed men ages 25 to 29, the share of college graduates rose from 29% in 2000 to 36% in 2016 – a considerable increase, but still smaller than that seen among young women.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...-likely-than-ever-to-have-a-bachelors-degree/
Had you been correct that millennials are weaker/dumber, then I'd just have to give coach Carroll more kudos for making such a diverse Seahawk environment so successful.
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Kingjr said, you do have some valid points about the lacking interpersonal, speaking skills of millennials in face-to-face conversations. But that does not make them weak or dumb. It just means they have not developed those skills, probably because that has been replaced largely by electronic forms of communication. But they could develop those skills if they needed and wanted to.
As for the current millennials, I have two of my own; one daughter, and one son. Both in their early to middle 20's. As a linear-thinking scientific guy, I can vouch that they are both smarter than I am on social issues. Probably because they have lived it by seeing cohorts live it. I must say I have confidence in this millennial generation, primarily because of their resilience. That is my son's observation. He's working on his masters degree in secondary ed counseling, started his internship this Spring at a very low socio-economic school, and just hired on as the Varsity football OL and DL coach. Some of those kids have such bad home environments that they play football so they don't have to go home where they are mentally and physically abused (even by threat of death). Some of the stories would make your heart sink to your stomach, or cry. Yet, in spite of the bad home environments, he says these kids are surprisingly resilient.