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I'd take lazy Randy Moss over Tebow if I was building a team. He could have been the best WR of all time if his work ethic was better but hes still a hall of famer. So yes you can be great without having the best work ethic
I would never want the real Randy Moss near any team I managed. On WIS, in fantasy football, on a video game, sure - because that Randy Moss doesn't have the real one's horrible attitude.
Moss played when he wanted to and was a disruptive oaf when he didn't want to play. As you said, he could have been the best of all time.
He is the single biggest reason the 07 Patriots were so dominant. It wasn't Tom Brady, the glory hog QB who gets all the credit. Clearly Brady has played there many seasons and while the team has often been good they were never THAT good.
You can have Randy Moss to build a team. Good luck when he decides he doesn't want to play - which will be much of the time if history is any judge.
I've coached a ton of "Randy Moss" type kids.......if you're goal is to win,  you'd be an idiot to not take a player with exceptional talent.....Have you ever coached a team shawn?  I would be surprised if anyone with coaching experience wouldn't take a player who was always the best player on the field.....
Players with exceptional talent don't help you win when they don't work hard, disrupt the chemistry of your team, and generally waste everyone's time with their antics.
Honestly, I'd rather lose with players who work hard than win with the best player on the field who is a constant source of disruption. Sometimes the cost of a victory simply isn't worth the price.
They most certainly do!  In fact, when kids don't practice hard but play well (and aren't jerks) they're called "gamers"....I would go  as far to say that kids who try there hardest in practice are few and far between.....and often trying hard isn't enough to overcome superior athletic ability.
You use the term kids, so I'm going to use that as well and work with the idea that we are discussion young people who both desire and need the influence of positive adults teaching life lessons.
Kids all practice hard if you teach them it is to be expected and offer the right incentives.
A kid who deliberately didn't practice hard wouldn't get a chance to play well for me. The "gamer" would find himself sitting on the bench until he decided to give a better effort.
When you do that, other kids respect it. They know even the "best" player can't get away with giving the coach a hard time or being lazy, so they don't do it either.
Again, part of what is wrong with America. Kids get the message they can slack off in practice and then be a "gamer" and that's okay, then they also think that's okay in other areas of life, and this is part of why the work ethic is abysmal.
Instead, if we teach kids they have to work to get what they want (in this example, practice hard to get to play) then they learn valuable life lessons which translate to other areas.
If kids who try the hardest in practice are "few and far between" then I would suggest the coach should give more incentives to try harder in practice.
Superior athletic ability is never an excuse to be lazy. I would not hesitate to bench the most athletic kid in the world if he thought that his athleticism was an excuse to be lazy. I'd rather him learn the lesson to work harder and be the best he can be, even if it is the difference between winning and losing in a game that is rather meaningless in the grand scheme of life.