re: Netflix: The Killer Inside the Mind of Aaron Hernandez

I think they made a good point for how and why closeted homo's act. That made sense.

The CTE stuff, yeah he obviously had some brain issues, but this dumbass was doing stupid shite well before and as one of the guys on the documentary said, there's thousands of football players that have CTE and don't go around murdering people. That was Aaron's choice.

I think the gay stuff probably played a much bigger role in all of this, but even that would never excuse this dumbass murdering 3 guys and attempting to murder 3 more.

Aaron's mom came off pretty shitty that's for sure "i told you just give me a million dollars and i'll be set for life"

I think they did a good job of exploring how big time football players and programs get away with things at times, and are able to sweep them under the rug.
I think if you want to pinpoint the biggest reason he did what he did was b/c he was stupid enough to think he was bullet proof and could get away with it b/c he was a famous football player. He got away with little things at Florida, which led to him trying to shoot up someone that he completely got away with. They even had the Boston police detective talk about how he thought there was no way Hernandez would have been involved with the double shooting, and that case never went anywhere until the car was found. Had they done any investigation into Hernandez, they probably would have found that car a lot sooner.

Anyone else watch this and listen to them keep saying "no one has ever murdered someone and played a season in the NFL"
And think...uhhh...Ray Lewis

Its a decent Doc. I'd like to make it known though, that I don't agree with all the excuses his friends, etc were making for him. Guy was a murderer, plain and simple.

I didn't know about the Alexander Bradley situation. Wow.

Big Losers of the program:

1. Florida and Urban Meyer - AH fired a gun into room of people, the school and coach know, and i guess its cool because he didnt hit anybody. No action taken by school or coach.

2. New England Patriots - There solution to the AH problem was setting up a flophouse apartment for AH in NE. Im sure it was like the gay White House there. Craft's rub and tug circuit wasnt going to be enough.

3. CTE - The majority of people with brain injuries and cognitive problems dont murder people. The guy's problem was substance abuse and real psychological problems from sexual abuse as a child. People can work there way through those problems without killing others also. He had resources through NFL to deal with all these things but didnt use them.

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Exploring potential reasons and influence doesn’t mean it’s not his fault. Both things can be true

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Exactly. They were searching for a motive other than him just being a psychopath.

It seems like they focused way more on the idea that Hernandez allegedly being a closeted gay man had a bigger impact on his behavior than CTE. Maybe that’s correct, but it seems like, comparatively, they spent more time on the being gay stuff.

HOWEVER, I personally think his story was primarily due to the fact that he lost his father at a very impressionable time in his life (and had a bad mom), and ended up around bad people like his cousin.

Yeah I thought that it was interesting how the Patriots handled it. Hernandez explained to Belichick that he felt his life was in danger. He asked for a trade. Belichick bluntly told him no. The Patriots got him some shite apartment for him to hide out in and smoke weed. I know in the NFL you usually don’t just trade a player when they ask, and Hernandez didn’t deserve it, but Belichick probably feels some guilt.

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from ProFootball Talk.

unbelievable!

I cant believe they suggest this piece tries to defend what he did.

I look at it for what it is.

This is just another piece telling someone's story.

I’m pretty sure Hernandez didn’t confess to Belichick that he killed anyone or that he attempted to kill that guy. Just saying maybe Bill regrets not trading him.