Tragic/funny Reche Caldwell article

Wasn't real smart off the field...

Wonder how his life changes if he catches those two passes in the AFC championship game.

BadMoFo said:

Wonder how his life changes if he catches those two passes in the AFC championship game.

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Can't fix stupid. Probably still in jail for something else.

From the sound of it, maybe he should quit dwelling on it. He seems to place some blame on his current state for the fact that he is still reminded of it. Sounds to me like he places blame on it rather than where it should be...on himself. Take some friggin' accountability for yourself Reche, man' up and move on.

fair catch fryar said:

From the sound of it, maybe he should quit dwelling on it. He seems to place some blame on his current state for the fact that he is still reminded of it. Sounds to me like he places blame on it rather than where it should be...on himself. Take some friggin' accountability for yourself Reche, man' up and move on.

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That's about the journalist, not Reche.

"I'm not gonna blame football or concussions like everybody else for my mistakes," Reche said. "I don't blame my education or my hometown or my family. I have a great family. I had a great childhood. I grew up in a great place. This is about losing my way, being around bad people and making bad choices, and that's all on me."

BadMoFo said:

Wonder how his life changes if he catches those two passes in the AFC championship game.

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Different outcome 100% guaranteed. He lost alot of that game. His job in New England, his reputation and his NFL career.

Instead he would have been the guy who helped the Patriots beat Indy and then beat the Bears.

Shockt327 said:

That's about the journalist, not Reche.

"I'm not gonna blame football or concussions like everybody else for my mistakes," Reche said. "I don't blame my education or my hometown or my family. I have a great family. I had a great childhood. I grew up in a great place. This is about losing my way, being around bad people and making bad choices, and that's all on me."

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Sometimes people who aren't bad simply lose their way and in finding a purpose or way to get through the day, do bad things.

Hopefully he figures it out and gets on the straight and narrow and becomes a good citizen with a purpose.

New England Pride said:

Different outcome 100% guaranteed. He lost alot of that game. His job in New England, his reputation and his NFL career.

Instead he would have been the guy who helped the Patriots beat Indy and then beat the Bears.

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There are 100s of fmr players who kicked ass in big games who ultimately became train wrecks in life.

His issues surfacing were more attributed by his lack of self control than a couple of dropped passes.

Shockt327 said:

That's about the journalist, not Reche.

"I'm not gonna blame football or concussions like everybody else for my mistakes," Reche said. "I don't blame my education or my hometown or my family. I have a great family. I had a great childhood. I grew up in a great place. This is about losing my way, being around bad people and making bad choices, and that's all on me."

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Shockingly, it's an ESPN article. Of the two, Andre seems to place the blame more at the feet of how Reche was treated by Pats fans and others more than Reche does.

Pretty interesting read, if only for the fact that he's such an off-the-beaten-path character to highlight. Caught me by surprise.

There are definitely some strange inferences to be made, given the close proximity of mentioning how he "heard every word" fans said about him after 06 and the mention of how he casually decided to order up some drugs one day, as if to just dip his toe into the water.

Shockt327 said:

That's about the journalist, not Reche.

"I'm not gonna blame football or concussions like everybody else for my mistakes," Reche said. "I don't blame my education or my hometown or my family. I have a great family. I had a great childhood. I grew up in a great place. This is about losing my way, being around bad people and making bad choices, and that's all on me."

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I'm basing it off of what his brother Andre was quoted as saying, albeit by the journalist.

But Andre is convinced that what happened in Indy tortured and then transformed Reche. "The way the game kicked him to the curb like an unwanted stepchild hurt him mentally and haunted him," Andre says. "Reche got a little bit of a selfish attitude out of it, like, 'Forget everybody else, I'm gonna start worrying about me.'"

WAsn't really funny..sad really. And if those catches really had that much of an influence on his life..even more sad. Some players just take it really hard when they let a team and fan base down..hell look at Welker with that drop in the SB that would have won it...mentally that has to be just devastating

To be fair, those drops he committed in the AFC Championship game were criminal....

I'll see myself out.

BadMoFo said:

Wonder how his life changes if he catches those two passes in the AFC championship game.

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If he doesn't catch Brady's late game bomb at SD they don't get to the afc title game

FCB02062 said:

If he doesn't catch Brady's late game bomb at SD they don't get to the afc title game

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Maybe, but that's not what I posted.

FCB02062 said:

If he doesn't catch Brady's late game bomb at SD they don't get to the afc title game

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That's true and he beat the Chargers' best corner, Quentin Jammer. Not 10 minutes later, 6 year-old Philip Rivers was shrieking at Ellis Hobbs, calling him the worst corner in football. I'm guessing the irony of this is wasted on Mr. Rivers to this day.

A minor correction - the article says the Caldwell scored the game winning TD against SD. Not so. He caught a 49 yard pass and was tackled at the 17 yard line. Game was tied 21-21 at the time. Gostkowski kicked the game winner. 24-21 final after missed Charger FG attempt.
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Zeus said:

That's true and he beat the Chargers' best corner, Quentin Jammer. Not 10 minutes later, 6 year-old Philip Rivers was shrieking at Ellis Hobbs, calling him the worst corner in football. I'm guessing the irony of this is wasted on Mr. Rivers to this day.

A minor correction - the article says the Caldwell scored the game winning TD against SD. Not so. He caught a 49 yard pass and was tackled at the 17 yard line. Game was tied 21-21 at the time. Gostkowski kicked the game winner. 24-21 final after missed Charger FG attempt.
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Wow, consider me shocked that there would be factual inaccuracies in an ESPN piece.

Will never forget those bug-eyes.

Apparently neither will anyone else, given that they're brought up in the third paragraph of that article.

Brady_to_Moss said:

WAsn't really funny..sad really. And if those catches really had that much of an influence on his life..even more sad. Some players just take it really hard when they let a team and fan base down..hell look at Welker with that drop in the SB that would have won it...mentally that has to be just devastating

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I found the part about his reaction to the flash bomb and his general stupidity a little amusing but, yeah you're right it is really sad. Reche seems like a genuine good guy who made a couple of big mistakes. Big props to him for taking responsibility for his actions. I don't hold anything against him (If we're being real the refs were more responsible...dude got mugged on 3rd down in the endzone on the final drive what the ****?).

Zeus said:

A minor correction - the article says the Caldwell scored the game winning TD against SD. Not so. He caught a 49 yard pass and was tackled at the 17 yard line. Game was tied 21-21 at the time. Gostkowski kicked the game winner. 24-21 final after missed Charger FG attempt.

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If I remember correctly he wasn't tackled, he stepped out of bounds. Failed to regain his balance after the catch, otherwise he could've scored. Perhaps he even should've scored since there was enough space to regain the balance. Good thing that Ghost made the FG and Kaeding missed a game-tying 54-yarder. Otherwise between Caldwell's missed TD and the soft D at the end allowing the Chargers to pick up like 40 yards in a minute without timeouts would've looked really bad.

I love how BSPN just HAS to tie him to the Patriots when he played on 4 other NFL teams. Just another reason not to visit/watch/read anything they put out.