Monday, April 28, 2008
The Oakland Raiders show why they are the Oakland Raiders
The NFL held the first two rounds of it’s draft Saturday and the Oakland Raiders chose with the fourth overall pick Arkansas star running back Darren McFadden.
Dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb.
I think this was a stupid move not just because running backs in the first round usually don’t pan out, but because this guy is just a huge messy “off the field trouble” waiting to happen.
This is the guy you let someone else draft on the first day.
It’s just not worth taking a chance. Mini Muhammad, his mother is a recovering crack addict. He has 11 brothers and sisters. One gang banging brother is a Crip, another is a Blood. He missed Arkansas’ 2006 season opener against the USC Trojans with a broken toe he suffered in a bar fight. Who brakes their toe in a bar fight? He was also involved in another bar fight earlier this year. This time it was at a piano bar. What where they fighting over? If Barry Manilow truly wrote the songs that makes the young girls girl? Then there’s the paternity suite being leveled against him by one Little Rock woman along with the statement from McFadden that he has two other children on the way.
For those keep score at home, that’s two bar fights and three baby mamas.
This is not the NFL from 10 years ago. Character is now important. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell isn’t screwing around when it comes to players committing infractions off the field. What are the chances he’s going to get into another piano bar fight? He’s about to get paid an awful lot of money and the likelihood that he’s going to screw up seem too high to me.
