I’ve been thinking about this since the offseason, and I will preface it by saying I obviously don’t know Josh, his ex-girlfriend or Hailee Steinfeld or any of these people. This is a VERY speculative and could be wildly incorrect, but I only post it for thought provoking reasons on what is up with Josh.
I just have been trying to figure out WHY Josh went from rapid progression to stagnation to full regression now.
There’s some obvious answers like Daboll leaving. There’s the possibility that this Is “just who he is”
But one thing that’s bothered me and it has been alluded to in the Diggs issues: Josh bought his own hype and is more focussed on his celebrity than football.
Top guys always do commercials and endorsements. But this offseason there he was just everywhere. He seemed to really lean into all of it. Instead of hearing about his work with Jordan Palmer, all I heard was commercials, golfing with celebs and romantic getaways with starlets.
The last bit is especially significant. The top QBs seem to reach a point where it comes time to decide on celebrity or football. Brady ALWAYS chose football. Mahomes seems to. Rodgers? He seemed to like the celebrity.
Josh was with Brittany Williams through A LOT. High school, when he had ZERO offers to play football, begging his way into Wyoming, somehow getting to be a 1st round pick, and rise to NFL stardom.
At his peak? He drops her for Hailee Steinfeld who has been Hollywood her whole life and had nothing but success since the age of 10.
it just feels like a loss of perspective and what made him great to me.
Again, who knows what really happened there, but it’s just a thought.
I just have been trying to figure out WHY Josh went from rapid progression to stagnation to full regression now.
There’s some obvious answers like Daboll leaving. There’s the possibility that this Is “just who he is”
But one thing that’s bothered me and it has been alluded to in the Diggs issues: Josh bought his own hype and is more focussed on his celebrity than football.
Top guys always do commercials and endorsements. But this offseason there he was just everywhere. He seemed to really lean into all of it. Instead of hearing about his work with Jordan Palmer, all I heard was commercials, golfing with celebs and romantic getaways with starlets.
The last bit is especially significant. The top QBs seem to reach a point where it comes time to decide on celebrity or football. Brady ALWAYS chose football. Mahomes seems to. Rodgers? He seemed to like the celebrity.
Josh was with Brittany Williams through A LOT. High school, when he had ZERO offers to play football, begging his way into Wyoming, somehow getting to be a 1st round pick, and rise to NFL stardom.
At his peak? He drops her for Hailee Steinfeld who has been Hollywood her whole life and had nothing but success since the age of 10.
it just feels like a loss of perspective and what made him great to me.
Again, who knows what really happened there, but it’s just a thought.
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