Clarett's Continued Fall

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I don’t think I’ve seen a young guy fall so far from so high so fast as Maurice Clarett. (Did you guys know he was only 22 years old?)

Today he was arrested with automatic weapons in his SUV, while wearing a bullet proof vest. Reports state that he also violently resisted, and that when the cops attempted to taser him, it failed because of the vest.

As a side note, Coach Shanahan of the Broncos said that he never seen in his entire career veterans and Pros rally around and support a young kid, trying to help him succeed, like they did Clarett that during his brief stint with the team.

What a waste.

Here is a chronology of his Rise and Fall:

Thoughts?
Mufasa

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What a douchebag… this is worse than Ricky Williams, and that basketball player who got into a drunk driving accident and tried to buy the guy out.

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Talent and endless opportunities placed in front of him to succeed and he throws it all away.

Mind boggling.

He should be charged with felony dumbfuckery on top of all that other stuff.

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there is something more to this story that we aren’t hearing. i know what he did was absurd but who wears a bullet proof vest and has 4 weapons in a car? something doesn’t seem right.

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[quote]Ryan0660 wrote:
there is something more to this story that we aren’t hearing. i know what he did was absurd but who wears a bullet proof vest and has 4 weapons in a car? something doesn’t seem right.[/quote]

That too, he was ready to start a lot of shit, it appears.

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[quote]Ryan0660 wrote:
there is something more to this story that we aren’t hearing. i know what he did was absurd but who wears a bullet proof vest and has 4 weapons in a car? something doesn’t seem right.[/quote]

Freelance pharmaceutical distributors, or “entrepreneurs” need to have that kind of protection when seeing their clients.

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Todd Marinovich, anyone?

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[quote]Ryan0660 wrote:
there is something more to this story that we aren’t hearing. i know what he did was absurd but who wears a bullet proof vest and has 4 weapons in a car? something doesn’t seem right.[/quote]

Yeah it is Clarett’s head that isn’t right. Pretty simple. He was obviously expecting some excitement.

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[quote]Ryan0660 wrote:
there is something more to this story that we aren’t hearing. i know what he did was absurd but who wears a bullet proof vest and has 4 weapons in a car? something doesn’t seem right.[/quote]

I have had more than four weapons in my car. No vest though.

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good fball player = nothing.

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Yeah, truly a magnificent fall from grace.

From what I hear, he had been receiving death threats from varying sources, which would probably explain the vest and guns in his car.

Something’s just not right in his head. I’ve seen a lot of football players see success and suddenly think they’re untouchable, but he takes it to a different level.

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Fall from grace? More like a return to his roots…

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[quote]nickels wrote:
Fall from grace? More like a return to his roots…[/quote]

Youngstown-Warren is about as rough as it gets. It’s sad to see someone with such supreme talent, with all the potential to rise out of it to something better fall back into it. I just wish they could screw someone elses head onto his body. Most people would kill to have the opportunities he had.

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[quote]Donut62 wrote:

Youngstown-Warren is about as rough as it gets. [/quote]

A writer from ESPN tells about ties to the rap community and the death threats here:

Being from Youngstown originally, and still having plenty of ties there… I don’t see it a all that rough. However, I won’t be moving back there… ever.

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[quote]nickels wrote:
Fall from grace? More like a return to his roots…[/quote]

BINGO!

Just because he’s (was) tallented at carrying an inflated pig skin on a chalked 100 yard grassy knoll does not preclude intelligence.

Our American culture is so “star struck” we tend to forget most people in the spotlight are not part of the ethical/moral or intelligent population.

Bud

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[quote]Bud911 wrote:
nickels wrote:
Fall from grace? More like a return to his roots…

BINGO!

Just because he’s (was) tallented at carrying an inflated pig skin on a chalked 100 yard grassy knoll does not preclude intelligence.

Our American culture is so “star struck” we tend to forget most people in the spotlight are not part of the ethical/moral or intelligent population.

Bud

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I never correlated “grace” with “intelligence”.

He found early success in a potentially extremely lucrative career.

I would think that the lure of greed alone would be able to keep someone on track. Apparently not.

Then again, some could argue that greed is what got him into his whole downward slide to begin with…

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[quote]LA wrote:

Being from Youngstown originally, and still having plenty of ties there… I don’t see it a all that rough. However, I won’t be moving back there… ever.[/quote]

It has certainly improved since the days of “Bombtown” and “Murdertown” USA. It’s been one of the most improved cities for crime over the past 5 years, but still averaged close to 1 violent crime for every 100 people in 2004 and is in the top 10 “Most Dangerous Cities” by population. It all depends on where you go, just like any metropolitan area.

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[quote]Bud911 wrote:
nickels wrote:
Fall from grace? More like a return to his roots…

BINGO!

Just because he’s (was) tallented at carrying an inflated pig skin on a chalked 100 yard grassy knoll does not preclude intelligence.

Our American culture is so “star struck” we tend to forget most people in the spotlight are not part of the ethical/moral or intelligent population.

Bud

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I understand that not everyone grew up the same. I know that some people have more guidance early on and are shown alternative ways to deal with certain problems based on their surroundings. Because of that, I have a difficult time with those who relate this kind of behavior directly with a “lack of intelligence”.

He was wearing a bullet proof vest, had some weapons on him, and he had been receiving death threats. Let me ask you, how would you have dealt with this and why you would make those decisions?

[quote]So it all makes sense, all the contriteness, all the thank-yous, all the quasi-goodbyes. If someone was coming after Maurice Clarett, that meant someone was coming after his baby girl. And if someone was coming after his baby girl, he was going to do anything he could to stop it.

If that meant carrying four guns and wearing a bulletproof vest, so be it. Maybe, Tuesday night, he knew it was over. Maybe that’s why he told me, “I’m a young man going through stress. I’m a person who was scheduled to make millions and didn’t make 'em.”

The more I think about it, maybe he’d decided Tuesday night was the night to tell everyone how he felt, his last chance for a confessional.

And now maybe he’s in the safest, best place for him.

The slammer.

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Here’s the deal, the way I was raised, I would have more than likely avoided that whole situation. Money is not my driving force in life even though I would like to be “comfortable”.

This guys sounds like someone who had very little guidance growing up. How else do you find yourself in a situation like that? Does this mean he was just blatantly stupid, or does it mean no one ever showed him the ‘right way’ when it counted?

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I’m not defending his actions, but I’ve got to wonder where he would be today if they had let him go in the draft that first year.