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I remember watching Seau play and bringing in video for the high school linebackers that I coached on how to play the position right.

The guy was intense and understood the position well, and excelled at what he did. While suicide itself is a bleak and desparate act its not a lonely act, its not an act that takes place in a vacuum, so if your the type that mutters a little prayer when things like this happen, then make sure that you put his family into those prayers.

I'm really as a football fan hoping that this isn't another statistic on the emerging story about concussions and brain injuries in football. I guess we'll know in a couple of weeks after they autopsy his body. And in a way I hope that it is a concussion based injury, both so that it can call more attention to a major problem in the sporting world, and so that his children and the rest of the family can understand that it wasn't them that caused him to do this, that it was caused by something beyond anyone's control except Juniors.

We can sit here and say, he should have gotten help, or he should have reached out, but depression fueled by a damaged brain is a pretty powerful thing, any one who has struggled with depression or brain injury whether concussion related or any other type of injury can tell you about the bleak hopelessness and the day after day feeling that your own body is conspiring against you.

I'm not here to call Junior Seau selfish for doing this, a guy that goes out of his way to forget or hurt the ones he loves with one last desparate act to gain sympathy is selfish. The old "Wait until they live without me" or their lives are "Better off without me" type of suicides can be classed as self serving.

This probably isn't one of those cases.

I hope that Seau's high profile within the football community moves more levers and turns more wheels so that concussion or long term injury based situations happen less and less in the future.

RIP Junior.