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Brady Quinn has become a bit of a spokesman for the Kansas City Chiefs as their starting quarterback. On Saturday night, there was one Chiefs player quoted in the local paper and that was Quinn, who seemed to say the right things in an impossible situation.
Yesterday I sat in the Chiefs press conference room listening to Quinn. We're the same age, born only 16 days apart. But his perspective seems so much more mature than that.
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"It was tough," Brady said. "I think it was an eerie feeling after a win because you don't think that you can win in this situation. The one thing people can hopefully try to take away, I guess, is the relationships they have with people. I know when it happened, I was sitting and, in my head, thinking what I could have done differently.
"When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
"We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that's fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half the time we are more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships that we have right in front of us.
"Hopefully people can learn from this and try to actually help if someone is battling something deeper on the inside than what they are revealing on a day-to-day basis."