The National Football League is a neverending carousel of successes and failures. Every victory on one side is a defeat on another. Every job won is, elsewhere, a job lost. The cycle goes on and on, nonstop. It’s the inherent nature of competitive sports, and part of its beauty and charm.
It’s also part of the ugliness, the harsh reality at times. But the good thing is that, when it happens to you, there is always somebody to commiserate with. It’s rare to find a player who hasn’t experienced personal failure. Perhaps not simply rare, actually, but rather impossible.