Posted on 04/17/2015 11:08:03 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
BOSTON (CBS) — Everybody knows that Aaron Hernandez caused trouble during his time at Florida. It was Hernandez’s behavior — failing a drug test, whispers of gang affiliation, some covered-up scuffles, etc. — that led to the first-round talent dropping to the fourth round.
Even still, nobody in the NFL could have known what Hernandez — now a convicted murderer — was truly capable of doing. In fact, he apparently even had his college head coach convinced that his troubles were behind him.
The MMQB’s Greg Bedard wrote a story in which he details a conversation he had with Floyd Reese, who was the Patriots’ senior football adviser during the time the team drafted Hernandez. Reese said that Urban Meyer, Florida’s head coach at the time, believed that despite the issues, Hernandez would mature and behave in the NFL.
“We knew he had some issues prior. Urban Meyer and Bill [Belichick] were very, very close, and I think Urban convinced Bill that, you know, that these things weren’t going to be an issue,” Reese told Bedard. “Of course, after that [rookie contract], after he signed [his $40 million contract extension], things kind of went awry.”
That is, obviously, putting things lightly, as Hernandez has already been sentenced to life in prison and is still set to stand trial for a double murder he’s accused of committing in Boston in July 2012.
Reese told Bedard that what might have worked against Hernandez the most was to be employed close to his hometown of Bristol, Conn.
“There were a lot of times where he would leave Foxboro and drive back to Hartford so he could be with his guys,” Reese said.
And ultimately, though the Patriots couldn’t have known that Hernandez’s crimes and misdeeds would be severe as they turned out to be, he admitted that the red flags were present before the team drafted him.
“When he was at Florida, he had some issues there too,” Reese told Bedard. “There were some things that went on. We all knew about it. It was just from our standpoint, we were getting a first-round talent in the fourth round under a contract that was going to keep him in line or it wasn’t going to cost us a penny.”
That’s why we now call him “Urban Liar.”
College program recruiting ability is enhanced by their players being picked up by the NFL, so I’m not buying that a coach wouldn’t promote a problem child to the NFL.
So, should I drop him from my fantasy team? Or will they let him out on Sunday’s so he can play?
Jamison Winston is a “problem” player too....yet he’ll get his multi million dollar contract because you know, that girl that accuses him just can’t be trusted...but Jamison can!!!!
I wonder if we will ever learn how many people he murdered while he was a student at Florida.
Nope.
I think what worked against Hernandez the most is that he is a spoiled, overindulged, murderous thug a$$hole who has never before in his entire life been held responsible for his actions.
I'm glad the arrest was off-season. ;-)
When we first moved to Wisconsin, my husband was invited to an event where a candidate for Attorney General spoke. Big topic of the day was: where should a new prison be located? The AG candidate started his speech by quipping that they "should build it in Green Bay so the Packers could walk to work".
Brought the house down. I don't know how the candidate fared. This was 30 years ago.
...and, like any other NFL team, we'd sign a contract with satan himself as long as he had "first round talent" and he "pinky-swore" he'd behave...
Hernandez is the 40 million dollar moron. All he had to do was show up to work and play football for a few years and he would have been set for life. Thug murderers make far less.
Gator4LifeWithoutParole
Urban Traitor!!!
Even Tebow couldn’t straighten him out.
Nice to see the Pats trying to avoid any responsibility, per usual.
CNN did a story on Herschel Walker & multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder). Apparently as awesome as Hershel was on the football field he had other personalities develop internally in order to cope with other issues in his life. Search: “Herschel Walker: What Is Dissociative Identity Disorder?” Point I’m making? That Aaron Hernandez could easily present himself with a pleasant personality to Coach Meyer and his team mates and hide the angry personalities that he knew needed to be hidden from those that only needed to see the nice Aaron. Mental illness is something that can affect any of us as either an unwary victim of it or as an active purveyor of the illness as it reveals its true character.
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