To quote myself earlier:
you just said you are always like this and then immediately followed it up with "after", meaning you were not like this until a certain event passed
this was how I interpreted what he said. I was asking him to clarify. People can misintepret things all the time. For example, "Mike became a good friend of Mark's after he helped him repair his computer. Most people can assume that Mike helped Mark repair the computer. But it's also possible that Mark helped Mike fix the computer, making a sentence like: "Mike became a good friend of Mark after Mark helped Mike fix Mike's computer."
simply be more realistic about his team's chances objectively but have the same amount of 'confidence' that they will win it all, because they've shown great potential.
"Confidence" is a sliding scale as you mentioned. Being more "realisitic" is the same thing as having less confidence IMO. Saying "We're going to win cause we're the best!" versus "We might win", means that you have less confidence in yourself to win.
he said he's always been that way but he clearly had less of a reason to accept criticism BEFORE kick off, since there was literally no reason to when no teams had any results at that point. He rebuts your premise by just stating that he's always been as accepting to criticism, just that the criticism BEFORE kickoff had little to no basis or ground to stand on, like much of your argument, which is why after kickoff, with actual results and facts, he definitely accepts the criticism.
Yes, and this was what I was trying to understand. I am asking them for what they meant.
Try to be less pretentious lil bro
we don't need to put each other down, let's have a normal debate, yeah?
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