As a player, there must be an attraction to spilling the dirt of the NFL’s ruthlessness out onto a social media platform and a dopamine rush in speaking your mind beyond its faux military industrial complex. In fact, anyone who has worked anywhere in their lives imagines the day they will expose the supposed wrongdoings of the corporation or business that cuts their paychecks and walk away from the gasoline-charged explosion twiddling their thumbs, pleasantly full on revenge (you would not believe the stories of injustice I endured as a youth caddying at the local country club, just wait for my book).
Of course, it never quite works that way, does it? This is especially true in the increasingly prevalent situations where NFL players turn away from outside counsel and toward a direct approach that they feel will conjure some combination of sympathy and power when it only does the opposite. Brandon Aiyuk is currently providing an absolute clinic in how to destroy a career, with each subsequent post illustrating an incredible lack of both self awareness and the awareness of what a prospective new team is looking for.
