No one is indispensable.

This is the eternal theorem of the whole law of nature, without any one person, the earth still rotates, the sun still rises, the tides still rise and fall, the world is still that world, nothing will change dramatically. Life is like that, and so is professional sports.

In professional sports leagues, led by the NFL, no one is irreplaceable.

The fall or departure of a player is always accompanied by younger, more energetic and stronger choices, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, the front waves die on the beach, and sometimes they don't even need to push the back waves, and the waves have disappeared into the ocean by themselves.

Even top superstars like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady aren't the only ones who can't be replaced. If they slack off on training, if they have an injury, if they lose form, there are still countless new quarterbacks behind them waiting to be replaced; Even if they do their best to stay in shape, the wolves in the professional league are looking for an opportunity to beat them.

Aldon Smith is naturally no exception.

It is true that Aldon is a defensive genius, but is such a genius a once-in-a-decade or once-in-a-century one? The difference is objective; And even if a once-in-a-century genius doesn't know how to cherish his talent and keeps squandering his time, then it is only a matter of time before he is abandoned and eliminated.

The team won't care, the teammates won't care, and the fans won't care. An Aldon is gone, and there are thousands of Smiths waiting for their chance to make a difference; A talented player can change the game, but rugby requires the united efforts of 53 players to win, and "1:53" is not a mathematical puzzle.

In other words, no one cares about his career except the player himself.

For teams and agents, players are just a commodity, and after careful packaging and painstaking management, they are eager to be able to make a profit.

For fans, players are what they chase and follow, but at the end of the day, they always choose the former before the team and the players.

For the players' families, they wholeheartedly support the players in their pursuit of their careers, but they are ultimately just a bunch of bystanders who can't empathize.

Only the player himself, his career has never been in his own hands. Hailed as the most talented man of all time, Randy Moss spent fifteen years in the league before winning his first Super Bowl championship ring with the San Francisco 49ers, and the only one who could change Moss's fate was himself.

The same is true of Aldon Smith now.

According to American cultural habits, Lu Ke should let Aldon go, he needs to choose the teammates in front of him, not the willful and reckless "pride of the sky".

Lu Ke had done his best, he tried his best to try to help Aldon; But if even Aldon himself doesn't care, he's helpless, and he shouldn't interfere too much in Aldon's life — he's not Aldon's agent, he's not even the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, and Aldon isn't his responsibility and shouldn't be.

But the reason why Lu Ke is Lu Ke and the San Francisco 49ers are San Francisco 49ers is because in this team, they are not mercenaries who gather together for the sake of the game and victory, they are fighters and comrades who fight side by side.

Moss said at the beginning that in the New England Patriots, everyone gathers for victory, they can enjoy the joy of victory, taste the bitterness of defeat, but they cannot share the bits and pieces of life. Of course, this can also be seen as a kind of professionalism in professional sports, where there is a clear distinction between public and private.

It's just that it's not the San Francisco 49ers' style.

When comrades-in-arms face difficulties and crises and fall into the quagmire, they must help, "do not abandon and do not give up", this slogan sounds extremely hypocritical, but it is the truth summed up after the bloody battle on the battlefield. Because only in this way can they survive side by side in this cruel and bloody war.

Aldon is more than just his teammate. They are friends, they are still comrades-in-arms.

Reason told Lu Ke that he had fulfilled his responsibilities, and the rest should be up to Aldon himself; But emotions tell Lu Ke that Aldon needs him.

"You guys start first." Lu Ke left a word, turned around and strode away.

Logan and Marcus exchanged glances and chased after each other.

Seeing this, Justin also hurriedly raised his voice and said, "Pay attention to Bambi, don't let Bambi get hurt!" After shouting, Justin clenched his fist and pounded the table hard, then took out his mobile phone and dialed Aldon's phone, and sure enough, he only rang twice before hanging up, "Damn guy!" ”

Justin is also the big brother of the defensive team, and after moving to the San Francisco 49ers in 2008, he spent five seasons here in the blink of an eye, and all his glory and achievements were created by this team in this city, and although he spent seven seasons with the Cincinnati Tigers, his heart has always belonged to San Francisco.

Now that Aldon has problems again, Justin is no less worried than Willis.

Lu Ke left on the front foot, and Justin immediately started making calls on the back foot, from Willis to Aldon's agent to Trent Balke...... The only hope now is that Aldon doesn't relapse. Who would have thought that last season's MVP would become a ticking time bomb for the team this season?

The room resounded with the sound of Justin making constant phone calls, while everyone else fell silent, forming an unusual silence and silence.

Jon waited and waited, but he still couldn't hold back, and said with a confused face, "So? Why does everyone look like the sky is about to fall? Aldon is an adult, he's already eighteen years old, isn't he? He is to blame for his actions and choices, why is a bunch of people following his ass/thigh? Even without him, the team won't collapse, will it? ”

Jon's words are correct.

In most teams, in most contexts, there is nothing wrong with his words. Jon still looks at the whole incident from the perspective of professional sports, and he naturally can't understand Lu Ke's choice and Justin's concern.

Jon's attitude isn't much different from when Moss first joined the team last year. But the problem is that Moss has talent and ability, he relied on his performance to occupy a place, but he encountered obstacles in the link of integrating into the team, and then there was that conflict between Moss and Lu Ke, and everyone knows the story later; Jon, on the other hand, has nothing, so now Jon is still not able to gain a foothold, let alone integrate into the team.

Justin glanced back at Jon, his eyes full of confusion of wanting to talk, but he didn't say anything after all, and lowered his head again and got busy.

Yes, for most people, the frenetic atmosphere in the San Francisco 49ers' locker room is incomprehensible, and they never understand why the term "warrior" has a special meaning for the entire team; If Jon stays in San Francisco for half a season and still refuses to know the team, then maybe they're not all the way.

Jon felt Justin's eyes and became more and more inexplicable, "What the hell is going on?" Did I say something wrong? Who the//care about an Aldon Smith? Lu Ke is our quarterback, isn't he? ”

……

"Bambi, calm down."

Sitting in the passenger seat, Logan repeated the same words for the hundredth and first time; And Marcus, who was sitting in the back seat, was not idle, he simply sat up on his knees, leaned out of the gap between the two seats, and parroted and repeated, "Bambi, you must be calm." It's not a big deal, maybe, maybe something unexpected happened that we didn't expect? We shouldn't presuppose a pessimistic scenario in advance, can we? ”

If it weren't for Lu Ke now holding the steering wheel with both hands, he really wanted to beat the two noisy guys next to him, and he was regretting for the one hundred and second time, why did he stop and let the two people sit up, instead of stepping on the accelerator and just driving away?

"I'm calm now, but if you two keep arguing, I can't guarantee it." Lu Ke almost gritted his teeth and squeezed out the words.

Logan and Marcus exchanged glances, they could both feel the tightness of Lu Ke's teeth colliding, hesitating whether they should shut up, and finally Logan asked hesitantly, "You...... Are you sure? ”

"Yes." Lu Ke didn't want to continue to talk more, and then before Logan could speak again, he said in advance, "Shhhhhhhhh Shut up, and if there's any more noise, I'll stop and drop you both. ”

"Hey, that's not fair! You can't punish me for Logan! Marcus immediately complained.

"Voice! I said, any sound! Lu Ke finally understood what Tang Seng felt when he chanted the scriptures, "Shhh Shhhh Seeing that they were still arguing, Lu Ke stopped it again and again.

The world is finally quiet.

Logan and Marcus secretly exchanged glances and exhaled softly - they had just deliberately, deliberately made Lu Ke relax in a foolish way, at least now the taut smell of gunpowder had dissipated a lot; Now, they can only hope that Aldon will be blessed with a lot of luck, and unless Aldon can find a strong reason to explain his absence today – or be late, it will be a bloody day.

There was a rumor circulating among the San Francisco 49ers that it would be a disaster to anger Hubble, but at most it would be a storm; Don't provoke Lu Ke, because this is Pandora's box, and you definitely won't want to find out what's hidden in the box.