re: Ed Werder says Saints out of Desean Sweepstakes

I get what everyone is saying and I said in the other thread I believe he's just a wannabe hanging out with the real thing.

But it isn't media fabrication. He has a guy signed on his label that was arrested(but acquitted) on murder. The other guy that was with him(the "rapper", not Jackson) was convicted of it.

He was also closely connected with another guy arrested for murder.

So it's a little more than just hanging with some questionable people. He is hanging with the real deal, though he himself doesn't seem to be involved in the dirt.

So it's not some loose associations with criminals. These are really bad people that are some of his closest friends, not people from a distant past or relatives.

My post wasn't pointed to you in anyway. I agree with what you said and I think it applies to Jackson as well, only in his case he is still drinking with those people.

This is all moot since he's not leaving the DC Metro area without a contract.

Of course a lot of athletes grow up in the "hood". You don't hear about 90% of them doing bad stuff or broadcasting it once they make it big, though.

The thing w DJax is, he either has no one around him to tell him to cut out the blatant gang shite, or if he does, he's totally ignoring that person.

And don't pull the "you people probably don't know the hoof" stuff. You went to Jesuit and probably grew up in mid city or Gentilly

I totally get all that Soph, but his HS (?) coach said he didn't start hanging around those people until after his dad died.

So this wasn't a case where he was friends with them from a young age. He purposely sought out those types later in life.

Like I said, he's just some wannabe good kid that decided he wanted to be a "bad" boy.

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Of course a lot of athletes grow up in the "hood". You don't hear about 90% of them doing bad stuff or broadcasting it once they make it big, though.

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You didn't hear about this stuff regarding DJax until last week.

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And don't pull the "you people probably don't know the hoof" stuff. You went to Jesuit and probably grew up in mid city or Gentilly

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I grew up in the East, brah.

But in all seriousness I have done a lot of work mentoring kids from the hood and their mentality is totally different. I haf to explain why I wasn't a thug, for example.

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Same player without the gang headaches.

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Yeah a lot of people bought all of that gang stuff hook, line and sinker.

Funny how his gang affiliations weren't a problem when he was making relative chump change.

All they had to say was we're cutting him because we don't want to pay him all of that money. They drug his name in the mud to make sure there wasn't any fan backlash. No one would ever blame a team for cutting ties with a gangbanger.

Thank god