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The Carolina Panthers are looking after their players’ mental health

In another move that is sure to have some people decrying how soft the league has become, the Carolina Panthers have hired Tish Guerin as one of the league’s first in-house mental health clinicians.

“We are often told as young men that it’s weak to cry,” Torrey Smith said “It’s weak to show emotion, and to just get over it. ... As men, it’s something where we don’t like to talk to people about our issues because we come off as insecure. Weak.

“And that’s actually the furthest thing from the truth.