Giants rookie quarterback arrested on way to practice

NY Post ^ | October 30, 2018 | 12:45pm | Lia Eustachewich

[shanover]

I never thought I would say that I just don’t care about the NFL anymore. That goes for the other big three with their PC culture and rules that are destroying sports.

[SuperLuminal]

When the Giants were a winning team, this arrest would never have happened... Even if he had driven over the curb making the turn and shmushing a couple of pedestrians...

[Hatteras]

"Maybe he missed the directions."

No, he was being an ashhole driver pulling the same stunt he thought he got away with the day before.

He's lucky I didn't pull him over. Jail would have been too easy. He'd be spittin' Chiclets. I would have given him the ol' wood shampoo (in syllables, even)

DON'T...YOU...EV...ER...PULL...THAT...CHIT...A...GAIN...YOU...NO...GOOD...SON...OF...A...

I'm sorry, Mumbles. I'm sorry, what did you say? Do I know who you are????

Of course I know who you are and I have a special gift for you, as I rear back and deliver a devastating Gillooly to the knee. Ooops, accident's happen. Sorry... I'll let you off with just a warning this time. Go Giants...

[Alberta's Child]

Go back and look at Coughlin's last few years with the Giants after their last Super Bowl victory. That's where the team's decline started ... when Coughlin allowed the players to walk all over the coaching staff. They became a lazy, undisciplined mess that you never would have seen in his earlier days.

And FYI ... he hasn't exactly set Jacksonville on fire since he joined their front office, either. Did he get his four players out of jail in London yet?

[oh8eleven]

They should put Saquan Barkley in the wildcat and let him run.
Not a bad idea but the way things are going, he won't live but a few more games.
Except for two or three catches by Odell Beckham, Barkley is their only offense.

[SamAdams76]

Details are in the article:

Lauletta was attempting to make a right turn from the wrong lane in order to get onto Route 495 East — but was instructed by a cop directing traffic to continue straight on, sources told the website.

Driving in the NYC area, I know that you have to be careful what lane you are in as exits come up fast. Too often people realize they are in wrong lane and try to cut over anyhow, causing accidents. It's better to just miss your exit as it's easy enough to safely reverse direction further down the road.

[oh8eleven]

Over the last five years this once-proud NFL franchise has managed to make the Cleveland Browns look like a well-managed organization. It’s astonishing.

I've been a Giants fan since birth - 65+ years ago. I couldn't agree more.

[oh8eleven]

What happened to the 4 NFL players arrested in London for trying to walk out on a $64,000 club bill. ???
The London chapter of BLM claimed making them pay was racist, so the club owner apologized and picked up the tab. /s

[conservative98]

They updated it since I posted.

[grania]

Too much money and a sense of entitlement have ruined that rough-around-the-edges element from the game. Instead of being grateful for wealth and fame, they're either making irrational demands or enabling those that do.

I don't get why they keep getting more chances with real bad behavior and drug violations. One should be enough. I get it that a good team sells tickets and the owner wants talent, but that's a false narrative. Look at the damage losers like Josh Gordon do to the rest of the team. Get a decent, hard working player such as Ted Ginn Jr and he's around longer then his more talented and more criminal HS and college classmates.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m still baffled at why they drafted Barkley in the first place. The RB position isn’t worth a high first round draft pick in the NFL these days. A good offensive line can make an average running back play like a star, and a bad offensive line will diminish even a Hall of Famer’s value to the team.

[Tallguy]

Depends on the type of runner. A pro runner runs to contact, keeps his feet moving and spins off the contact. This wears down defenders and a 3 yd rushing avg can jump when he breaks 1 late. All they need is a small seam. Makes the O-line look & play better since they learn never to give up on a play.

Most collegiate runners are looking for a hole and go down at the slightest contact. These guys don’t do well in the pros.

[dead]

Could be a full-of-himself football player or a full-of-himself cop. I’ve met both types.

[Alberta's Child]

Look back over the last 40 years in the NFL and notice: (1) how many championship teams had a good running game without a stud running back, and (2) the number of Hall of Fame runners who did nothing to help their team become a championship contender.

Barry Sanders is a perfect example, and Barkley has looked a lot like him through his first few games. Sanders could run for 150 yards on 20 carries in a game, but when you looked closely at his games you'll see that he was very ineffective despite all those yards. In his typical 150-yard game he'd have two long runs of 60 yards each, then just 30 yards on his other 18 carries. That's an awful recipe for an offense in the NFL, because the team can't run a ball-possession offense and usually faces situations of 2nd-and-9, 3rd-and-7+, etc.

[RedMonqey]

Too much money and a sense of entitlement have ruined that rough-around-the-edges element from the game. Instead of being grateful for wealth and fame,

This is very true of today's players and today's generation. They forget it's a team sport. In a time long ago I played baseball and football, both team sports. If a player got a little uppity, he got an attitude adjustment from a few willing players(I was one one time) while the coach and the remaining teammates looked the other way.

Of course nowadays the parents of the little brats would sue cause it would be on camera but we didn't have much problem players like the pros have nowadays. Which is a pity because it makes hollow the term "To be a sport, be a sport(Good Sportsmanship)

[Stingray51]

I have had several occasions over decades of driving where a cop was giving half-hearted traffic directions (such as just moving his fingers when indicating with an entire forearm would apparently have required too much energy). Between steroid use, cell phones (cops on traffic duty yammering into their phones while they are being paid to do a job) and a unionized entitlement mentality, situations like this can result. Especially in New Jersey. Now, I take the most cautious approach in situations like that and stay out of trouble but I can easily see this happening, especially with fast, inexperienced drivers on perilous roads.

[oh8eleven]

I’m still baffled at why they drafted Barkley in the first place.
You and me both .... and I'm also still PO'd!
They needed a new QB, had the #2 pick in the draft, and had at least three or four good QBs to pick from (I wanted Darnold). How often is that going to happen?
Now I'm thinking the QB at Oregon (Justin Herbert) may be the right guy for next year's pick.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not a fan of Coach Coughlin I see...

[Alberta's Child]

I was a fan when he was winning. He had a reputation as a hard-ass disciplinarian, and a lot of his players hated him even when they were winning championships. Notice how many of his players loved him when he was fired, though ... after he became such a likable head coach, and the team SUCKED.

Go back and see how he dealt with the pathetic antics of Odell Beckham Jr. before he was fired. The 2007 version of Tom Coughlin would have been embarrassed at the 2015 version of Tom Coughlin.

[rednesss]

So you would become a felonious thug? I hope to God that you are nowhere near a gun and any amount of Authoritah.