Following Former Patriots
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N'Keal looking like he will make his non-Pats debut in Gillette:
View: https://twitter.com/RealAlexBarth/status/1577740758169313280?s=20&t=gRc5oAaGK4hzO0_Qk9FjQw
View: https://twitter.com/RealAlexBarth/status/1577740758169313280?s=20&t=gRc5oAaGK4hzO0_Qk9FjQw
This sort of bums me out because even if it validates Bill's decision not to re-sign JC, it's been a good story. Hopefully he can get healthy and regain some of his previous ball-hawking proclivity.
I put the over/under at 2 years until JC is back playing for the Patriots and making a difference.
I was thinking something like this. I expected him to succeed in LA and was bummed when he left, but maybe he becomes a boomerang story. At least he got his bag first.
Going back to the first post in this thread, it looks like Gaffney as a baseball player didn't work out
https://www.milb.com/player/tyler-gaffney-621421
The way my brother described it: "significant non contact knee injury that had him leave the game in an aircast."
Sounds like he is finished for the year.
Sounds like he is finished for the year.
I feel like some of this has to be scheme and coaching right?
Like, the Chargers Defense seems like it has a ton of talent but it also seems like some odd scheming.
Using the highlights from the game he got benched in, that Dulchich busted coverage probably is his fault but that either seems to me that he was supposed to be zone and followed his guy as man or that the intention was to line up JC Jackson on the tight eend instead of the WR, instead letting him run free to the safety. On the Hamler catch, clearly Jackson is way behind but why is Derwin James also that far behind on the receiver (unless his role was to play mid field and then he had to scramble back when JCJ lost coverage)? Staley puts these both on JCJ so I'm assuming he knows the play call but it feels weird that the players were in these spots. Or that the Chargers paid this much money for a CB like JCJ to have him play zone against tight ends.
I dunno, I feel like the Chargers are a zone defense from the little I've seen under Stalry and they paid a ton of money to a man who made his bones as a man CB. Might be more of a talent mismatch than Jackson suddenly becoming a terrible CB. Hope he recovers and either figures it out or pulls an old KVN and comes back.
Like, the Chargers Defense seems like it has a ton of talent but it also seems like some odd scheming.
Using the highlights from the game he got benched in, that Dulchich busted coverage probably is his fault but that either seems to me that he was supposed to be zone and followed his guy as man or that the intention was to line up JC Jackson on the tight eend instead of the WR, instead letting him run free to the safety. On the Hamler catch, clearly Jackson is way behind but why is Derwin James also that far behind on the receiver (unless his role was to play mid field and then he had to scramble back when JCJ lost coverage)? Staley puts these both on JCJ so I'm assuming he knows the play call but it feels weird that the players were in these spots. Or that the Chargers paid this much money for a CB like JCJ to have him play zone against tight ends.
I dunno, I feel like the Chargers are a zone defense from the little I've seen under Stalry and they paid a ton of money to a man who made his bones as a man CB. Might be more of a talent mismatch than Jackson suddenly becoming a terrible CB. Hope he recovers and either figures it out or pulls an old KVN and comes back.
The injury is an example why NFL free agents should always chase the money when they can. Careers turn on a single play.
Feel horrible for him but I’m glad for the timing for him. You really can’t begrudge dudes for taking the money and this is an absolutely textbook example.
Story on Sam Gash's battle with cancer
https://www.nfl.com/news/former-nfl-player-sam-gash-focusing-on-positives-after-going-through-multiple-ba
https://www.nfl.com/news/former-nfl-player-sam-gash-focusing-on-positives-after-going-through-multiple-ba
I know mugshots aren't glamor shots, but Jesus he looks terrible. Thats a worrying picture.
First thing I thought of was this (second thing was how the hell was he not ruled down?):
View: https://youtu.be/Pot9Gkmg5Eg
Yeah, and he's only 34 years old. In another world he's still playing ball.
Additional reports say there was an incident at a nightclub.
"Edel-nut"
https://www.tiktok.com/@newheightshow/video/7257519986728537386?_r=1&_t=8e87PRLm4ap
Jules' Moss impression is off the charts.
https://www.tiktok.com/@newheightshow/video/7257519986728537386?_r=1&_t=8e87PRLm4ap
Jules' Moss impression is off the charts.
Race video:
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/former-patriots-running-back-stevan-ridley-shares-video-race-that-left-kevin-hart-wheelchair/BUGWWHK3URFZZB7TIYIGX2U5O4/
I'll give Hart credit, he was much closer than I imagined even considering it was only 40y.
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/former-patriots-running-back-stevan-ridley-shares-video-race-that-left-kevin-hart-wheelchair/BUGWWHK3URFZZB7TIYIGX2U5O4/
I'll give Hart credit, he was much closer than I imagined even considering it was only 40y.
I'm kind of over Belichick's grumpy snorting act but this is pretty cool: View: https://twitter.com/PSchrags/status/1695469972326068591
Former Patriot Sergio Brown's mother found dead in a creek and he's missing:
https://news.yahoo.com/former-nfl-player-sergio-brown-191312026.html
Hope he's not involved and not dead. Odd story.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-nfl-player-sergio-brown-191312026.html
Hope he's not involved and not dead. Odd story.
I'm not sure I even remember him as a Pat but that's the guy Gronk threw out of the club.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxWtDZARuIU/?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==
Not looking great for Sergio, who calls his mom’s death “fake news.”
Not looking great for Sergio, who calls his mom’s death “fake news.”
Didn’t see Chandler Jones mentioned in here yet. Besides the stuff below, he brought up Larry Fitzgerald and his daughter in a weird and confusing post. He’s really flying off the handle, it would seem.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12531447/amp/Raiders-Chandler-Jones-goes-disturbing-rant-accuse-team-owner-Mark-Davis-protecting-identity-man.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12531447/amp/Raiders-Chandler-Jones-goes-disturbing-rant-accuse-team-owner-Mark-Davis-protecting-identity-man.html
JC Jackson a healthy inactive today for the Chargers. Bill really does know how to avoid bad second contracts…
Aaaaaand you're righter than anyone knew at the time. Warrant out for his arrest:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38491500/warrant-chargers-jc-jackson-600-fine-class
I'm one who would've signed him to the contract the Chargers gave him. As usual, In Bill We Trust.
Wow, over $600 and a few hours of time. His legal issues are certainly minor in comparison to what a lot of talented NFL players get away with, but definitely a red flag and a reason to think twice about giving him an $80 million contract.
And now he has been arrested
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38520812/raiders-de-chandler-jones-arrested-las-vegas
Domestic Violence restraining order violation
Man, I hope the guy can get some help. He's pretty young, hope he doesn't have some CTE-related issue. 
I hope he gets help too, before he causes irreparable harm to himself or anyone else. Can you imagine trying to section 12 (or whatever it is called in other states) him involuntarily? Not a dr but this seems like severe mental illness, and I carry the concern sometimes CTE keeps the league from addressing mental health issues more openly as everything gets labeled concussion.Man, I hope the guy can get some help. He's pretty young, hope he doesn't have some CTE-related issue.
Like, of course these heroic juggernaut human beings couldn’t have mental health problems, it must be related to on Field play and head injury. Again, not a doctor but I wondered the same about Seau as well. Also schizophrenia is often diagnosed first in males in mid 20s. Maybe that’s triggered by CTE as well, i just wish the conversation was broader.
Former BC and Patriots’ RB Mike Cloud is disabled due to head injuries he suffered playing football. This federal appeals court decision, which rejected Cloud’s claim for enhanced disability benefits from the NFL, paints a damning picture of how the league handles former players’ disability claims.
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/22/22-10710-CV0.pdf
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/22/22-10710-CV0.pdf
This is really the NFL administration in a nutshell. Get criticized for an obvious error but, amazingly, suffer no consequences.
I was just watching the highlights of the 2003 regular season game against Indianapolis. Cloud scored at least one TD and was a really nice player on that team.
that's an awful story.
Weird that I remember him on BC and not on the Pats, when I am a Pats fan but not a BC fan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not all that surprising. Cloud was a star at BC, but just a cog in Foxborough. I had forgotten he was on the 2003 team.
On a lighter former Pats note, N’Keal Harry will be active for the Vikings tomorrow.
https://x.com/Vikings/status/1710746818974208340?s=20
And he has been arrested in connection to his mother's death. Had "traveled" to Mexico, was deported and arrested when he arrived back in the US.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/us/sergio-brown-nfl-mother-death/index.html
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40428825/ex-raiders-de-chandler-jones-pleads-no-contest-avoid-jail
suspended sentence for C. Jones.
Danny Amendola is a contestant on this season’s Dancing with the Stars
https://www.wcvb.com/article/former-new-england-patriots-wide-receiver-danny-amendola-dancing-with-the-stars/62054258
https://www.wcvb.com/article/former-new-england-patriots-wide-receiver-danny-amendola-dancing-with-the-stars/62054258