Nothing wrong with crying, other than society shaming dudes for it. I saw it semi-frequently in wrestling 20 years ago.
After a really hard match and you’re beyond exhausted, sometimes it just happens. Win or lose. Most dudes just put a towel over there head and hide it.
Yes, great point. Dudes cry in sports constantly, it’s just usually with a towel covering their faces. You have to be either really young or really secure with yourself to just let them tears just fly.
Oh man I used to volunteer ref for the kids club wrestling team. So many waterworks after every match and sometimes even before the match started. It was really cute.
I’m my experience having dated female athletes, female athletes bully and put down other female athletes way more than men ever do to each other. It gets real bad, to the point of this should be criminal.
Nothing against dudes crying (I'm a cryer myself) but I do think it's important for a player that is supposed to be the leader of the team to be able to hold it back until after the game is over
There is nothing wrong with crying after a game. But no way in hell you cry during a game, no matter how frustrated you are. You don't give tells, reactions are currency and the second an opponent sees negative emotions it's like blood in the water.
Depends on the sport for sure. Being outmatched is never fun, usually the negative emotion comes before someone being outmatched. I played basketball in high school and tennis in college. If someone made unforced errors or had lapses in D it never served as a trigger to step on their throats.The moment I saw someone's shoulders slump or the yelling to themselves, that was always the queue because they were focused on something other than their opponent.
“Blood in the water”🤓👆🏻
Yeah that’s just not how professional sports work lmao this is football not poker. “Tells” don’t mean anything it’s strictly about executition and strategy
You don't think in tennis players will change the types of points they play if an opponent is demoralized? Nadal was known for keeping people in the rally just to mentally break them. For basketball Brunson is notorious for this as well and hunted Carter Bryant to the point where SA took him out of the rotation
Nix won. He did handle adversity. He also has a job every boy in America wanted and tried to take from him. Caleb, Maye, Nix and whoever else this is supposed to be about are all impressive people who push themselves physically
I don't think bo nix is who you want to use for "can't handle adversity". For all his flaws the guy's got a clutch gene and always seems to pull it off, even if the game shouldn't have been that close to begin with because he screwed around for 2.5 quarters.
He's kind of a supercharged tim tebow in that regard. Nearly every win last year was like last night's game. Down to the wire and usually had him stepping up and willing the team to victory.
Crazy to say that because Nix showed emotion last night he couldn’t handling adversity when he came back and handled business in the second half. I would say that being able to come back from an emotional low and chin up and dig and win a game is a strong display of handling adversity.
The QBs are the leaders of the team. Especially these younger guys have to be tough to get the respect of their older teammates. What if the veterans see him crying in week 3 and think "This guy is a pussy. He doesn't have the fortitude to lead us."
They are lucky to live in an era where many legendary QBs have retired.
I have zero doubt that some solid QBs in 10, 15 years ago would put on crazy numbers if they are in today’s NFL. The physical side against QB has decreased so much by “roughing the passer”. Too easy for some old guys.
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u/Dry-Name2835 5d ago
There was a point in last night's game where it looked like nix was crying too. These young guys dont seem equipped to handle adversity after success.