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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.How’d you get that? The article frames him as a young man who got in around the wrong crowds, made mistakes, worked hard, and now has his life back on track.Pretty good is a weird framing be considering that the article illuminates the fact that he is a thug POS.
He's not a #1 cover corner. But some team will be dumb enough to pay him like one. It won't be New England. So at least it will make it easier for me to see him leave because I don't want to have to root for trash. That's the only good thing that came out of this article for me.
But that's the NFL in a nutshell. Great things happening to bad people.
Seriously? Many NFL players aren't saints. He seemed like someone who had a tough upbringing who could have easily gone the wrong way. Instead he worked hard and responded to the discipline of BB and team. I read that article and felt good that he was able to overcome his background and youthful mistakes to become the Patriots #1 cornerback in 2021. He has said that he wants to return to the Pats, I hope that he and the team can work it out.Pretty good is a weird framing be considering that the article illuminates the fact that he is a thug POS.
He's not a #1 cover corner. But some team will be dumb enough to pay him like one. It won't be New England. So at least it will make it easier for me to see him leave because I don't want to have to root for trash. That's the only good thing that came out of this article for me.
But that's the NFL in a nutshell. Great things happening to bad people.
All the more justification I think (in Bill's) mind to not give him top dollar and let him walk.It's absolutely incredible that BB can somehow routinely find diamonds out of UDFA cornerbacks. JC Jackson, Malcolm Butler, Jon Jones. JC has earned every penny he gets later, he's an elite ball hawk who is also solid against the run.
BB's aces out of UDFA CB's really makes up for so many high-draft-pick busts at CB.
Pretty good is a weird framing be considering that the article illuminates the fact that he is a thug POS.
He's not a #1 cover corner. But some team will be dumb enough to pay him like one. It won't be New England. So at least it will make it easier for me to see him leave because I don't want to have to root for trash. That's the only good thing that came out of this article for me.
But that's the NFL in a nutshell. Great things happening to bad people.
Former Immokalee High School and University of Florida football standout Jerald "J.C." Jackson was found not guilty of four felonies Friday, charges that led to his departure from the Gators earlier this year.
Jurors in Gainesville deliberated for about two hours before acquitting Jackson, a 2014 graduate, on three counts of home invasion robbery and one count of burglary. Jackson faced up to life in prison if convicted on all counts.
Gainesville police and prosecutors accused the 19-year-old of helping to carry out a robbery of three men at an apartment in April. The victims said Jackson entered the apartment, left, returned with two other men, then left just before the holdup. About $375 cash and two video game systems were taken at gunpoint.
But Christopher Brown, Jackson's lawyer, argued that Jackson left the robbery scene with no knowledge that a robbery was about to occur. Jackson didn't testify in his defense.
"It surely shows a bad choice in company and that he wasn't using his head, but he didn't have a weapon and there was no evidence he ever obtained any stolen goods," Brown said. "It looks bad, but this isn't proof that he was part of a plan and assisted in the robbery."
I’m not sure who you’re responding to, but let’s clarify something. No one in the posts previous to the one I am responding to said what he did was okay. The story clearly frames him as being someone who has turned their life around. What team he is on doesn’t matter. If he goes out tomorrow and pulls some dirty ****, I’ve been around here long enough to know that most people on this board wouldn’t give the dude a pass. People make mistakes in life. Some learn from it and turn their lives around and have a positive impact on the world. Some don’t.Youth has nothing to do with it. Everyone knows well before they reach teenhood that robbing people at gunpoint is wrong. He's just a dirtbag. But I fully expected this type of response. If he's on another team, Tyreke Hill, for example people call him out for what he is. If he is on your team a large part of the fanbase will make excuses, rationalize and justify. It's one of the more gross aspects of NFL fandom. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I just don't like the guy knowing what I know now. People are obviously free to disagree.
Youth has nothing to do with it. Everyone knows well before they reach teenhood that robbing people at gunpoint is wrong. He's just a dirtbag. But I fully expected this type of response. If he's on another team, Tyreke Hill, for example people call him out for what he is. If he is on your team a large part of the fanbase will make excuses, rationalize and justify. It's one of the more gross aspects of NFL fandom. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I just don't like the guy knowing what I know now. People are obviously free to disagree.
Not gonna disagree about him being overhyped. Would like to see him stay, but not anywhere near the top level $$$ he'll get elsewhere. That being said, he's no saint and made more than a few pizz-poor decisions as a young, black man from sheer poverty. Now, unless you can claim to have a similar pedigree and know of the real-life struggles I would like to hear them because other than that you have no right to pass judgment on a man just from reading a phucking article on Yahoo sports. The kid is where he is because he got a few breaks from a system that doesn't normally do that for someone like him and now he's making the most of it....I say good for him and I hope he pays it forward by trying to be the role model that many kids where he came from could use.Pretty good is a weird framing be considering that the article illuminates the fact that he is a thug POS.
He's not a #1 cover corner. But some team will be dumb enough to pay him like one. It won't be New England. So at least it will make it easier for me to see him leave because I don't want to have to root for trash. That's the only good thing that came out of this article for me.
But that's the NFL in a nutshell. Great things happening to bad people.
Tag is at least $17.4M. He’s getting at least that from a one year tag deal from Bill or on the open market. He’s already made the Pro Bowl. If he makes All Pro, someone could pay him a contract that is close or exceeds Ramsey.What will the price be, 17-19M?
They’d get a 3rd round come pick unless they sign a guy with comparable contract.I’d also hate to see him go and the team get nothing in return either.
It’s really weird how he can’t draft DB’s, but finds these UDFA gems.BB's aces out of UDFA CB's really makes up for so many high-draft-pick busts at CB.
Tag is at least $17.4M. He’s getting at least that from a one year tag deal from Bill or on the open market. He’s already made the Pro Bowl. If he makes All Pro, someone could pay him a contract that is close or exceeds Ramsey.
They’d get a 3rd round come pick unless they sign a guy with comparable contract.
It’s really weird how he can’t draft DB’s, but finds these UDFA gems.
If he leaves after this year, doesn’t last years signings offset that comp pick?Tag is at least $17.4M. He’s getting at least that from a one year tag deal from Bill or on the open market. He’s already made the Pro Bowl. If he makes All Pro, someone could pay him a contract that is close or exceeds Ramsey.
They’d get a 3rd round come pick unless they sign a guy with comparable contract.
It’s really weird how he can’t draft DB’s, but finds these UDFA gems.