re: Deebo is selfish for skipping bowl game

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So will he get paid from an NFL team sooner by quitting on his teammates and coaches?

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No but he might actually get paid for a change since he's lessening his chances of being injured between now and then.

Also heard Marcus Lattimore strongly encouraged him to go ahead and go.

Ever heard about a Paratroopers' Last Option?

When we're finally getting out, ETSing, retiring, whatever, you're given a last option and it's the only time in your career you are given this option.

When you are manifested for your last jump you have the option to give the jump to a buddy .... or make it yourself. You know why?

Because after years, and sometimes 100s of jumps in all sorts of shitty weather and pitchblack dark loaded down with a ruck under your nuts and a weapon in your armpit ... sometimes that last jump is the jinx. I've seen it happen to a couple of guys including one I jumped with in 82 in the Mohave who was killed, who was going to meet his newborn son right after the jump. Named Robert Breitmeyer. Google him. I was his jumpmaster, wasn't his fault. Wind kicked up, Operation Gallant Eagle. We had seven die that day but his was particularly bad. Jump went well, PLF was rough on all of us because these Chinook winds kicked up on us after we had already exited the planes.

Bob was killed by drag. He hit a tank on the ground, shatter his pelvis, shattered both shoulder and his clavicle. He couldn't stand up to get out of his chute and that was before we had capewell systems ... so his chute drug him about ten klicks across that hard desert floor at 40 knots for six hours ... we didn't find him until sunrise, what was left of him still being drug over cactuses and rocks ... his last jump.

So you get the option, you've earned it. Most of us jumped anyway but some of the guys just had bad feelings about it and gave their spot in the chalk away.

These senior college guys should be afforded the same respect and opportunity imho.

Some of these pussy fricks around need to quit busting balls. They've got no idea how you go for years overcoming the injuries and violence of certain jobs ... and then one day you just know you're about to push your luck too far and you step back and regroup and live to play another day whatever it is in life.

You don't frick with fate and you don't test the gods ... they test you.

But some will never understand that.

Deebo earned the right to go and regroup.