too much one-track mind
to engage in every piece
of speculation
“I’m with you in the situation. You just have to let it play out, cooperate with the investigation and watch how it plays out,” Harbaugh said. “The speculation part, as I said, I have too much of a one-track mind coaching the team to be able to engage in every piece of speculation. I just channel my inner William Wallace. That’s the visual I think of to keep a one-track mind.”
Jim Harbaugh on was he aware of the sign stealing by the numb numb-nuts on his coaching staff.
I think, back in the day, this was called the ‘non-denial denial.’
As a Professor of mine said about JFK … “He took the blame for the Bay of Pigs … After all, there was no other President at the time.”
Oddly enough I would have heard this lecture back when Jimmy Harbaugh and I were in school together … along with 30,000 other students.
Oh yes, he channels William Wallace.
Oh Boy!
I cannot watch that Braveheart movie with thinking one simple thing.
If either Mel Gibson or Mr. Wallace had watched Humphrey Bogart in the Maltese Falcon that movie would have had a much different ending.
As Mr. Bogart said: “If all I’ve said doesn’t mean anything to you, forget it and we’ll make it just this. I won’t because all of me wants to — regardless of consequences — and because you’ve counted on that with me the same as you counted on that with the others… I won’t play the sap for you.”
As Mr. Hammett wrote it, Sam Spade said, “It’s easy enough to be nuts about you.”
He looked hungrily from her hair to her feet and up to her eyes again.
“But I don’t know what that amounts to. Does anybody ever?
But suppose I do?
What of it?
Maybe next month I won’t.
I’ve been through it before — when it lasted that long.
Then what?
Then I’ll think I played the sap.
And if I did it and got sent over then I’d be sure I was the sap.
Well, if I send you over I’ll be sorry as hell — I’ll have some rotten nights — but that’ll pass. Listen.”
He took her by the shoulders and bent her back, leaning over her.
“If that doesn’t mean anything to you forget it and we’ll make it this: I won’t because all of me wants to — wants to say to hell with the consequences and do it — and because — God damn you — you’ve counted on that with me the same as you counted on that with the others.”
Come on Jimmy, don’t play the sap for these guys.
They are counting on that .
Don’t play the sap.
(Full disclosure – this interview was on October 30th and I back dated my post as I missed a day)
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