Please, more detailed descriptions of this Hard Knocks train wreck for those of us ethnicly disadvantaged and therefore too cheap to pay for HBO.
Some of the highlights:
- Joe McKnight struggling mightily in practice. Him talking back to the RB coach. Santonio Holmes trying to school him, but him not getting it (BTW, I think the whole interaction was staged for the cameras to show Holmes as a leader, but that is my personal opinion). Bart Scott has a good line about him coming from USC and how he had to take a pay cut to come to the Jets from SC. Way too early to tell, but the guy is shaping up to be a bust.
- Sanchez seems really imature. When his QB coach is trying to give him advise in the meeting room, Sanchez just ignores him and fiddles with the zipper on his bag and never looks up. Later he calls to order pizza for the him and the coaching staff and haggles over 59 cent bread sticks. He mocks one of the LBs walk (out of ear or eyeshot of the player) as the defense walks to the other endzone to do drills (funny, but I doubt Brady would ever do that with a player). This guy seems to need a more disciplined structure than the Jets will give him if he is ever going to be elite or close to it. He definitely takes advantage of the laid back atmosphere of the Jets' camp.
- Tomlinson gets some good pub on jumping over the pile into the endzone in practice. Ryan brags in a meeting that how he was right on him and the world was wrong (the pompous side of the guy that I hate more than anything that he gets from his dad).
- Vernon Gholston is ball washed so badly that I don't think even his mother believes the BS. Ryan so wants the guy to succeed that he overhypes every little thing he does in practice.
- Kyle Wilson gets a positive piece on him and shows him making some plays.
- Ryan and the coaching staff look extremely upset/nervous about their depth based on the second half of the Giants game. All of them say separately that it is scary how bad they played especially from guys who will actually get decent playing time on offense or defense this season. Ryan really rips into the back ups in the post game speech.
- The punter buys shake weights (those very sexual moving weight that you shake back and forth) for the entire team. They all play with them during prepractice warm ups making some sexual inuendos. I could never see this happening in Foxboro. Not only would Belichick not allow it, but I think some of the leaders (Wilfork, Brady, etc.) would kill the guy who bought them and brought them to the field.
Overall, this episode focused more on the negatives about the team than the positives. This is a TV show so it is hard to tell how they edited it, but this was the episode where they show a lot of struggles.
As for the Cromartie thing, he tries to list his kids' names and struggles and 5 of his 8 kids are three or about to be 3.
