Re: Chad Jackson acting like a fool in the annual Kickoff Gala.
At 1:35 in the show they start talking about it again (and of course Casale has to tie a negative Jackson comment into everything - they were doing e-mails):
Casale: "Fred, you know what a good leader is?"
Perillo: "Somebody who can read an e-mail?"
Casale: "Exactly about what we were talking about when Chad Jackson went out of control at a kickoff gala, a good leader is someone like Harrison or Bruschi who is going to come up to him the next day, slap him upside the head, and say "If I ever see that again it's going to be worse."
Perillo: "Lori, did you see any of that behavior we were talking about?
Lori: "Yeah."
Perillo: "Is there anything you can talk about without getting yourself in trouble, so you can kind of enlighten the rest of us that weren't there?
Lori: "Well it looks like they were trying to do like a little rookie stunt. The captains got up and were like "Oh, by the way, we're going to bring up the rookies." So they called up Maroney, they called up Jackson, and Jackson, uh, made the whole place go quiet."
Casale: "And I saw him come out of the elevator into the place and he was starting right from there, yelling, talking loud, it was really weird."
Perillo: "It's exceptionally strange in light of what he's done so far as a professional football player. It would be one thing if Laurence Maroney got up there and said "You know what, I'm going to try and have some fun with it" and maybe it backfired. He thought it was fun, you know, but the guy has played the whole preseason. Chad Jackson, you'd think, would do everything he could to disappear into the wall. He's been on the field for 3 practices, hasn't played one game, hasn't put the uniform on one time yet. You'd think he do everything he could to just hide in the crowd instead of calling attention to himself. It's a very strange decision."
Casale: "I'm glad Lori was here to say it so people like me and Tomase don't have an agenda against Chad Jackson or trying to smear his good name."
Perillo: "The next thread will be the cheerleaders have it out for the second round pick."
Casale: "But anybody that was at that place last night saw what went on last night, it wasn't just me."
Hart: "So it really went to akward silence?"
Lori: "Yeah, the whole place went quiet. But then Maroney jumped on the mic and was like "Oh, thank you for having us." He bailed out the whole thing."
Hart: "Maybe we shouldn't have treated Chad Jackson like a first round pick from the day he stepped inside this stadium."
Perillo: "We? You!"
Hart: "They had a press conference and photography shoot out on the field."
Perillo: "See how mad he got?"
Hart: "He's been treated like God since he got here instead of a lowly second round pick."
Perillo: "It was for our two special picks."
Hart: "Maybe he isn't so special."
Perillo: "In the 8 years I've been here that was the first time a second round pick was included."
Hart: "OK, I was wrong. He's a bust. Not a steal anymore, a bust."
Perillo: "Andy's admiration was pure talent."
Casale: "See that e-mailer who hates me, loves Paul? I'm not the only one who's jumped ship."
Hart: "I didn't know that he has rocks between his ears."
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