love the way so many of Nate’s critiques and roasts of the team in 1x07 call out arcs those characters go through

he calls out Sam for being indecisive and then so much of Sam’s story in s2 is about deciding to make a choice, first to stand up to DubaiAir, then to stay at Richmond

he tells Isaac he’s too concerned with looking tough and that there’s a way to be intimidating without being physical and Isaac goes from being a bully who physically harasses Nate to a captain with full control of the team without yelling or pushing people around (thinking of how Roy as a captain yelled to get people to listen, but how Isaac just has to look at them and say nothing), but also later almost ruins his entire career by physically going after a fan when angry. and ALSO someone who struggles to tell his best friend he loves him, probably because he doesn’t want to seem soft, but also makes the effort to make sure he knows it anyways

and then lastly, the one that most obviously relates to more than just football - he tells Roy that while his anger made him a star athlete, if he keeps it all to himself it’s going to ruin him, and we see Roy constantly struggle to handle his anger, even all the way through s3, only finally making an effort to do something about it in the finale

“you see things no one else does” indeed