You're making this way more serious than it is. I don't even see why it has to even go that route. I'm actually a little disgusted we're even comparing American soldiers to football players.

There's nothing wrong with working your way up the food chain.

Hey, you just graduated college with limited work experience. You want to be the CEO of our company?

Hey, you just got drafted. Here's the keys to our billion dollar franchise. I hope you're ready!

Not the same concepts need to be applied to every single situation in life the same. There's not just one way to do everything.

Don't be disgusted papz, I'm a combat veteran. But if you don't care for the soldier analogy. A NOPD recruit must have 2 years of college or military service, so at 20 they are paid 36k/year handed a firearm after training and they become CEO of the community.

There are plenty of 20 year old CEOs that didn't go to college but own and run their own companies for less than $100k/year, while also raising their children. I haven't seen a model yet where a drafted QB is given the keys to a franchise. The levels of mentoring and management between him and (free-to-decide) owner are a great many. But you know this already papz, from your previous post "At the end of the day it really doesn't matter what some drafted QB wants to do... it's really not their call. "

The "they are kids" argument just doesn't sit well with me, somehow less than 25 years old is viewed as a kid yet they are grownups with grownup responsibilities in their every day life.

Those rookies have been hammered since freshmen in high school with "time to grow up and prepare for life", "time to start making responsible decisions", "time to make something of your self".. Only to enter the work force and have someone say "they are kids, you cant expect them to act like adults and handle responsibility"? Even the rookies that grew up in broken homes were pounded daily by teachers in HS or College about handling their business.

Here is the rub on college graduate with zero work experience. Unless they pull an intern gig somewhere, you are correct, they graduate with little real world experience, everything is theoretical. A drafted first round QB has been under Center doing that same job for years by the time he reaches the NFL, only difference is that its for a Corporation and he gets paid more. I recognize that the weight of the pay and playing in the NFL is immense, that's why teams vet the heck out of rookies before they draft them.

Some are thrown into the fire because at the end of the day that is the only way to know how that multimillion dollar investment will handle the pressures of the playoffs and Superbowl. As far as Rodgers and Brady, not exactly the norm. One became a starter because someone else was injured and the other was unlucky enough to get drafted by a team that had a QB that didn't know when it was time to go to pasture.

I think deep down inside this conversation is about way more than just football and that you need to hash out somewhere.

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