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Fascinating how team chemistry and motivation work to make or sabotage an entire season. While talent matters, psychology is arguably the determining factor in professional sports. (See Bruins 1971/2023)Yep, that was the season where Afailus Thomas jumped ship, Moss started to lose focus, and Shawn Springs was loud-mouthed, washed-up garbage... Besides, the Saints won the franchise's only championship that season by Pick-6ing PayaTon to victory, so no complaints...
Good decisions by ownership and/or management can enable and inspire players to perform together positively, and to overcome adversity and see it as a challenge to overcome.
As opposed to poor decisions, which lead players to conclude they're on their own, every man for himself, we're doing this to get paid and that's it. And more often than not, major injuries occur under these circumstances. You're just not playing with the kind of adrenaline, attention, intensity and emotion as when you're engaged.
A team can be greater - or less than - the sum of its parts.
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