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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nate should have told Ted how he felt. Instead, he bottled it up and had a tantrum. It’s all understandable given his background, but that doesn’t mean Ted did anything wrong.

Some earlier PP acted like Nate was an abuser who couldn’t turn things around. I disagree with that. It’s not like Nate has a long history of being a bully. He tried out the bully personality a few times after Rebecca told him to make himself big, but I think he’s realizing that isn’t who he wants to be. Nate just has to figure out how to be the nice guy that he is without being a doormat. That can be a hard balance to strike. Leadership isn’t natural for everyone.

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Agree Ted didn't do anything wrong but also don't really think Nate did either. I don't even agree he had a "tantrum" except maybe a small private one (when he tore up that sign in Ted's office). But his confrontation with Ted wasn't a tantrum -- he was expressing his feelings honestly and directly. Sure, he was doing it emotionally and with anger, but that's how he felt, that's normal. He didn't even bottle his emotions up for that long -- this was what, over the course of a few months? I think he had a bad few months personally and professionally and in the end he wound up yelling at his boss for what he viewed as overlooking him.

Nate's decision to go to ManU is treated as this big betrayal but viewing it that way is more dramatic than what he actually did. After some strategic success at Richmond and after feeling pushed aside with Roy's hiring, he was offered a job that was a huge step up, on a very successful and well funded team, and he took it. That's.... normal. Again, it can even be viewed as healthy. He could have left in a more graceful way, and he has said some rude/competitive things about Ted publicly afterwards, both of which were childish. But he didn't actually DO anything to him. He did not owe it to Ted to turn down that offer out of loyalty, especially when he was unsure of what the future held for him at Richmond -- he was basically the third (of three) assistant coaches. Turning down that offer would have been dumb, frankly.

Jaime did much worse things in season 1. Heck, Rebecca's treatment of Ted in Season 1 is worse -- it was essentially a long con where she was using him and setting him up to publicly fail. Nate's been a bit petty, that's all.[/quote]

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