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Context matters. As does tone in a person's voice and even if the words used were meant literally. Unfortunately for Miami Hurricanes talent Malek Young, rather than providing a kid with the benefit of the doubt, we are more likely to assume the worst.
Also, he didn't leave a lot of breathing room.
Malek Young told reporters after Thursday's practice that Duke quarterback Daniel Jones' propensity to take hits means it's incumbent on the Hurricanes to knock the sophomore QB out of the game.
“He loves to throw the football,” Young said, according to 247 Sports. “He takes hits. He don't like to slide, and what we're going to do is — the goal is to get him out of the game. Get him out of the game, and it's going to be a good game.”
That all does sound inherently awful. At the same time, we are viewing this as humans outside of the sport. To the people in it, living and breathing the violence being played for our entertainment, that is just smart football.
No. No. I am not advocating for Malek Young to target any player. Nor am I saying doing so is fine and dandy. What I would argue, however, is that we keep pretending football is something other than a sport with designed violence played by people who have jobs to commit the most extreme acts of it.
So, yeah… let's kill this kid for having a mindset football breeds. He bangs heads all day at practice, in games, and over numerous years, but he is wrong for believing he is meant to be violent in a violent sport.
