MD5eahawks":hbsa8p6b said:
Popeyejones":hbsa8p6b said:
It didn't seem like he was trying to fight him though. He wanted to jaw with him, and he did. If he wanted to tee off on him he would have, but he didn't, he started jawing at him and then waited for them to be pulled apart.
FWIW I read putting his helmet on beforehand as pretty smart, not a sign of intent that he for some reason didn't act on.
Absolute pure speculation. You are making excuses for his actions. Fact is, no one knows exactly what he was "thinking". But from his actions we can tell what he was expecting. Sure, it was smart to put the helmet on but only if he expected physical contact. That itself is intent.
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"Your are making excuses for his actions": In order to make this argument, did you purposefully or "accidentally" deleted out the first sentence of my post, which read "Donald was absolutely wrong to confront him after the game. No argument there."?
That's crap, man. Don't quote my post while deleting out the only part of it that makes your baseless accusation obviously incorrect.
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Absolute pure speculation.: This is correct. I am 100% speculating that if he went out there planning on getting in a fist fight or wrestling match with Britt that he would have, well, like, gotten in a fist fight or wrestling match with Britt.
If we are going to try to divine his intent, we should do so by his actions. That leaves us two options:
(1) He went out there planning on teeing off on Britt, but for unexplained reasons did not.
(2) He went out there planning on jawing with Britt, and then did what he was planning on doing.
We don't know which one of those is true. You have no argument from me there. So, while I am speculating, I'm also relying on the data point we do have -- his ACTIONS -- to try to figure out his intent. It is, I believe, for obvious reasons, better than assigning intent that contradicts actions.