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Some (including one who works here) have suggested that Texans quarterback Brock Osweiler eventually will regret his decision not to join his former team at the White House to celebrate once again their Super Bowl championship from four months ago. Others (including me) believe Osweiler shouldn’t regret it.

It’s ultimately a personal decision, which for Osweiler is surely more personal than the desire to remain with his new team, focusing on learning a new offense and eventually winning a new Super Bowl trophy. Beyond the work ethic he’s trying to demonstrate in Houston, Osweiler surely has lingering hard feelings about the fact that he was benched after going 5-2 as a starter and beating the previously-unbeaten Patriots in prime-time.

Consider Osweiler’s comments from Monday, during which he explained that he stayed in Houston to participate in an OTA session with his new teammates.

“That’s what my answer was last week,” Osweiler said. “I stand by that answer. My answer hasn’t changed. I believe that every single practice, every single rep, every single meeting that I can get in this new offense is the most important thing for myself and my teammates right now. So yes, I stand by what I said last week.”

His that’s-my-story-and-I’m-sticking-to-it explanations suggests that, at some level, Osweiler believes (correctly or not) that the decision to bench him late in the regular season was more about placating Peyton Manning, whose anger over not being put back in the lineup culminated in a one-fingered salute to coach Gary Kubiak during a filmed workout before Manning was put back on the field.

Could the Broncos have won the Super Bowl with Osweiler? Probably. Could they have gotten there with him? Maybe not. Regardless, any NFL quarterback who aspires to be remotely successful in any setting has to believe that he could have and would have taken the Broncos to the Super Bowl and won it. To be properly motivated in his new surroundings, Osweiler needs to leave that chip on his shoulder — especially since he’ll be playing the Broncos in Denver this season.

Osweiler doesn’t need to make any apologies for his decision, or to enhance it by admitting that he’s still miffed by the fact that the Broncos treated him like Deputy Dawg in deference to the Sheriff. Think of it this way: Would the laser-focused Manning have swapped a navel-gazing celebration for work on a work day? Would Tom Brady?

Last year, Brady bailed on the team’s first White House trip in 10 years by claiming he didn’t have enough advance notice. (He reportedly was working out on his own at the team facility while the rest of the Patriots went to D.C.) While some (including me) questioned whether he opted not to attend because he was miffed about a moment of snark from a White House spokesperson regarding Brady’s performance in his initial #Deflategate press conference, no one questioned Brady’s sanity for choosing work over play.

Osweiler’s decision reflects the mentality that we’ve come to expect from ultra-obsessive franchise quarterback, who live, sleep, eat, breathe football. Why is anyone surprised that he’s behaving in the way that other franchise quarterbacks would?