San Francisco has issues with Stafford

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I wouldn't want to answer questions about my parents' divorce to a stranger as part of a job interview, either. Why is nothing personal or out of bounds any more?
 
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IPorange said:
I wouldn't want to answer questions about my parents' divorce to a stranger as part of a job interview, either. Why is nothing personal or out of bounds any more?
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When teams are paying kids tens of millions of dollars up front as an investment and don't want it backfiring because the kid isn't a professional.
 
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So he can't be a professional if he is unhappy about his parents' divorce? I still don't see the connection.
 
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IPorange said:
So he can't be a professional if he is unhappy about his parents' divorce? I still don't see the connection.
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The Titans are wasting a huge amount of money on Young because he can't keep his mind on his job. For what Young is doing they might as well suit up their towel boy.


I completely sympathize with teams for making sure they know what they're getting in on when they're forced to basically sign a 6 year/$60mil contract (taking Russell for example) with ~30mil guaranteed.

The connection you ask for is if Stafford shows up every day for practice feeling butthurt because mommy and daddy don't love each other anymore meanwhile he's getting a cool $8mil/year from his team. He doesn't play as well, his fragile sensibility is damaged by criticism from his coach when he throws an INT and he refuses to play the next series (see: Vince Young).
 
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maybe Stafford felt that his parents' divorce was none of their damn business.
 
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MG1968 said:
maybe Stafford felt that his parents' divorce was none of their damn business.
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Well, it's obvious that Stafford didn't like the question. What he needs to realize is that he's an investment to a team, and they more than likely don't give a rats @ss about his personal problems. They care about his on-field performance and his ability to keep his private life off of it. That's what the question was gauging.

I'm sure there is a lot that goes on behind closed doors that we, as fans, are not privy to that would cause Front Office Managers to be concerned.
 
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sorry, but playing football and having divorced parents are in no way related no matter how hard you try to correlate the two.
 
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San Fransisco has shown recently how good they are at evaluating quarterbacks. They felt Alex Smith was worthy of a number 1 pick.
 
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DC Vol said:
Well, it's obvious that Stafford didn't like the question. What he needs to realize is that he's an investment to a team, and they more than likely don't give a rats @ss about his personal problems. They care about his on-field performance and his ability to keep his private life off of it. That's what the question was gauging.

I'm sure there is a lot that goes on behind closed doors that we, as fans, are not privy to that would cause Front Office Managers to be concerned.
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well, then they should have asked him if he preferred to carry a loaded Glock in a shoulder holster or tucked into the waistband of his sweatpants if they wanted to get a better judgment of his off field mental capacities.
 
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So what are you going to do with these questions to filter out the spacecases anyway?

Are you going to ask someone you have suspicions of turning into Travis Henry II to get a vasectomy before you draft him? Are you going to delve into how many strip clubs the next guy who has a video game nickname has been to recently? Are you going to discern from Matthew Stafford's divorced parents that he's going to throw 24 INTs instead of 14?
 
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It isn't about how he feels, it's about how he answered the question. If you're capable of leading a pro football team, you're capable of thinking out an acceptable answer to an uncomfortable question. He doesn't even "work" for them yet and he's already questioning how much they pay their interviewer? I'm sure his point was to ask a personal question similar to the one that was just asked of him, but that wasn't the brightest thing to do.
 
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I don't see how his family situation is relevant at all. If he acted like a baby about a football question, that would be totally different.
I'm not a Stafford fan, and I think he'll be a bust of epic proportions. Still, I think he has a right to be frustrated here.
 
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vollygirl said:
It isn't about how he feels, it's about how he answered the question. If you're capable of leading a pro football team, you're capable of thinking out an acceptable answer to an uncomfortable question. He doesn't even "work" for them yet and he's already questioning how much they pay their interviewer? I'm sure his point was to ask a personal question similar to the one that was just asked of him, but that wasn't the brightest thing to do.
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Bingo, It was a "trick" question

He could have "plead the 5th" and I am sure they would have moved on, but instead he fired off a smart comment
 
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IPorange said:
So he can't be a professional if he is unhappy about his parents' divorce? I still don't see the connection.
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It sounds to me like their issue with him was more with the way he handled the question, not just his denying to go into any detail about it. A simple comment about how it was painful for him and he would rather not go into depth about the subject would probably have gone a lot further than the response he gave.
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
Bingo, It was a "trick" question

He could have "plead the 5th" and I am sure they would have moved on, but instead he fired off a smart comment
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exactly, it was a loaded question. They wanted to see if he could be professional when put in an awkward and uncomfortable situation, and see how he reacted. Maybe you don't agree with the tactic but it certainly can be a good indicator of how he might perform under the microscope and pressure.
 
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vollygirl said:
It isn't about how he feels, it's about how he answered the question. If you're capable of leading a pro football team, you're capable of thinking out an acceptable answer to an uncomfortable question. He doesn't even "work" for them yet and he's already questioning how much they pay their interviewer? I'm sure his point was to ask a personal question similar to the one that was just asked of him, but that wasn't the brightest thing to do.
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i agree. good post VG.
 
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KB5252 said:
exactly, it was a loaded question. They wanted to see if he could be professional when put in an awkward and uncomfortable situation, and see how he reacted. Maybe you don't agree with the tactic but it certainly can be a good indicator of how he might perform under the microscope and pressure.
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I had no problem with the question

Whats going to happen when Stafford goes 0-16 in his first season at detroit and the press asks a tough question, is he going to ask the reporter how much he makes?
 
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