Maybe this is because I'm a fat guy who struggles in the heat, but this doesn't look like a man who is particularly bothered by the heat.
It's not particularly good posture, but to me it looks like either:
1. He's real intent on what the other players are doing, perhaps thinking about leverage or whatever. (optimistic view)
OR
2. He's bored. (pessimistic view).
IMO, "dogging it because of the heat" as a possibility is a distant third.
I'm inclined to go with 1: Look carefully at the eyes. He seems pretty intent on what's happening in front of him. The odd tilt of his body may be incident to him leaning sideways to get a better view. His mouth is closed. He doesn't look like he's panting or otherwise struggling with the heat. He doesn't appear to be particularly sweaty. His hands aren't on his waist. Sure, he's got a roll around his waist, but that's not unusual for linemen after all; and it isn't a Grady Jackson sort of roll.
The "routine has become commonplace" implication definitely bothers me, but the photo to me doesn't match the claim. In fact, may suggest the opposite when it comes to JH's attention.
Of course, I've never been as impressed by McGinn as others (and he himself) seems to be. So that bias may be entering into things.
"IronMan" wrote:
You would make an excellent defense attorney.
"Wade" wrote:
Hehe. Actually, one of the (many) reasons I left law just a few years after starting is that I was lousy in the courtroom. And a bigger one was my realization that I was not willing to put my own feelings aside and give everyone zealous representation regardless of whether I'd associate with them otherwise.
I don't subscribe to the JS's "premium" content. Has McGinn or anyone else spoken of Harrell dogging it before? ISTM that if a poor work ethic has "become commonplace", we should have heard more of about it before now.
Oh, I've heard fans speak of him being "fat and lazy". But I haven't heard much reporting to that effect. I've heard talk about how he can't stay healthy, yes. Worries about whether the back will recur, yes. How this is a make or break moment for Harrell. That, too.
But while that goes to whether he will or should make the team, it doesn't go to the question of his attitude and work ethic the way this McGinn piece does. Now I'm not as tune to the local press (I refuse to pay for internet news, and I am boycotting Packernews after they asked me for demographic information for the umpteenth time), so I might have missed it. But work-ethic-wise, all I've heard to this point was that he was working hard and diligently to rehab and get in shape and meet the challenge, etc.
The major "evidence" McGinn presents, at least in this article, is one picture. And, IMO, that picture doesn't speak the thousand words that McGinn and the rest of you seem to think it does.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)