Get off my lawn!
Mar 16, 2008 2007 Draft, Beer, Grumpy Old Men, I really dig my readers, Jacoby Jones is slighty less unheralded, Jacoby Jones' beer bong
According to various sources (most notably, reader Eric who alerted us to the “rumor” at 11:30am), Jacoby Jones was arrested early this morning for driving while intoxicated.
Of course, the team has no comment until the facts come out. Which means that Gary and Co. will issue a “we’re really disappointed in Jacoby, but he has told us that he’s sorry” statement in a day or two. And that’s fine, I suppose; I mean, if this is the worst thing that our players do all offseason, we’ve gotten off light by today’s NFL standards. And, yes, JJ is only 23 and this is the type of stupid, youthful thing that 23-year-olds do frequently in the real world. I get that.
All that said, however, I would think that a punt returner/4th receiver who had a great preseason and a forgettable regular season (and who already lost half of his special teams duties to the Special Teams Ninja) would do his best to avoid doing anything stupid. I mean, we all love Jacoby (some of us to alarming degrees), but we don’t love him in the same, wouldn’t-trade-him-for-anyone way that we love DeJesus, Mario, and Andre. No, our love for Jones is of the “wow…this kid might just be something someday” variety. That’s not a hard love to forget if it goes unrequited for very long.
No, I am not saying that I am done with Jacoby. He’s not Travis Johnson or anything; I don’t hate him with the hot burning intensity of a thousand suns. I still want to believe the hype and I want him to wind up being great. More importantly, though, I want him to want to be great and to act like he wants to be great. Shape up, kid.
God, I feel old.
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March 16th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
But occifer, I was only weaving because I was practicing my routes as I drove back to my crib [hic]!
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March 16th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Well said, Matt. He should be better than this.
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March 16th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
@Tim: I couldn’t agree more.
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:59 am
They asked an old cowboy one time, what he did with the money he made in his life and he said “I spent it all on whiskey and women, the rest of it, well I just wasted.” Why is it this all makes me smile..?
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March 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Not to minimize “our” guys “transgression but, LenWhale White has screwed the pooch:
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=88235
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
As much as I’d love to say that I’ve never had “a few too many and then gotten in a car”… I can’t.
So I can’t be too harsh to the preseason PK ninja. Then again, I’m not an NFL player who should know he’s a target for these kind of headlines.
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
@grungedave: Yeah, that’s my point, I guess. I don’t think he’s a horrible person for doing it, but I wonder how bright he is, given his situation and the signing of Andre II.
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March 17th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
His lawyer (and as we know, most are full of…well, stuff) says:
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6057418&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Guess it must be true???(j/k)
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March 18th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
for rich or for poor….in good times & bad…
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I still love JJ. Although it’s not like I asked him to have my babies in the pre-season {glances toward BFD}
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March 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Hey, that’s only because I had the cajones to pop the question first.
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Personally, I’m hoping that he was at least drinking royal pints (20 oz) in order to build up his upper body strength.