Chris Long: I know a lot of the sacks aren’t on you. Menelik Watson: My technique’s terrible right now. Chris Long: No, it’s not. -------- Whew, what a relief. Here I was awkwardly trying to fight my way through every "thank you" that followed the rare times in which someone said something nice about me to my face, and it turns out even one of the biggest, strongest, and most disproportionally agile men on the planet suffers from those very same uncomfortable exchanges! Granted, it's probably pretty tough to accept a compliment without a rebuttal when you're part of a unit that's getting absolutely bushwhacked in the midst of a 28-point trouncing that didn't even feel that close, but still. Whether or not Menelik Watson was doing everything in his pseudo-superhuman power to protect a quarterback who happens to have an inherent inability to play quarterback, being told such will never be as consoling as it is discomforting. Maybe our "technique" is terrible in absorbing approval because we've all become exponentially more accustomed to hearing when we've fucked up as opposed to when we've done good, or maybe it's because were all at least sightly self-conscious about our skill-set. Whatever the case may be, it's a phenomenon that apparently effects professional athletes on down to idiots writing jokes on the internet. So, despite the fact that Menelik Watson could put bench press me while simultaneously reading the morning paper, it appears he and I aren't all that different. Oddly enough (for various reasons), I have a lot more in common with him than I do Chris Long, because I might actually be more likely to flawlessly accept praise than I would be to offer some to my opponent in the middle of a game.
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