Marcedes Lewis Sidetracked By Distractions?
by Alfie Crow on Feb 2, 2012 12:01 PM EST
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PrintOne of the more disappointing seasons came from Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Marcedes Lewis. Lewis was coming off a Pro Bowl season in 2011 and signed a big new five-year $34 million deal during training camp. Lewis struggled with a calf injury early in the season, but could just never really seem to get it going. I don't think it was a fact of Lewis getting "fat and happy" as people like to say once a player hits a payday. Lewis always looked like he was going hard on every down and you could tell the drops really got to him. It seems there may have been some distractions that sidetracked Lewis, according to Jay Glazer who spoke with ESPN's Paul Kuharsky.
"We put him in the best position we could physically. You could see him in camp physically just crushing people," Glazer told Kuharsky. "Obviously having a young quarterback, those two guys just never got on the same page. They just never got in a rhythm there." As we all know, Lewis spent much of the offseason during the lockout training in mixed martial arts with Glazer. "A lot of times guys have stuff off the field that affects them," Glaze said. "We try to teach our guys that you've got to use that field or that cage as an oasis and nobody can touch you. But nobody knows what goes on. There are a lot of extenuating circumstances for guys."
Glazer also notes that Lewis plans to work with him again during the 2012 offseason, but hopefully Lewis can tune out the distractions and get back to the form he began showing during the 2011 NFL season.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!
But he’s SUCH a great blocker isn’t he? Yeah, that’s why we love him so much. BS.
I need my meds.
And I’ve always viewed him as a fantastic blocker. Not sure what you aren’t seeing, but I think he’s the perfect mix of blocker/receiver (not withstanding the drops during 2011).
I love how he alludes to an ‘off the field stuff that affected him’, but doesn’t go into what it was. For that matter, don’t we all have ‘outside work’ stuff going on in our heads? That’s no excuse for not getting your job done.
Now if it comes out that his entire family was being held hostage by Mexican druglords, I’ll take this back, but if it’s just a matter of what the special’s going to be a Waffle House this week – do your job.
It’s easy to just identify that he had a personal matter. That identifies it and then people hopefully understand and don’t have any further questions.
Keeping things vague leaves room for interpretation.
Personal matter
We all have “personal matters” in life. Barring death of a family member, we all have to deal with them and come to work.
I’m not big to rag on a player but when your job is to catch the ball, and you don’t catch it, then why have you on the team? Why’d u get a big pay day?
Personal matters aside, it would’ve been a better excuse to say “Shortened offseason, hold out, not being on the same page as my rookie QB…….” and then make the cliche vow to put in the work and get better this offseason.
Instead it comes off as “wah, I got personal issues….”
No one is saying these guys have to be emotionless machines, but don’t give fans the personal problem i dont wanna talk about it excuse.
And den?
OK, so his buddy Glazer is making the excuses for him. Either way the excuses are crap. Plain and simple dude has a job to do. Do it. You got paid for it, do it.
I don’t really care about the why something wasn’t. I want to hear how something will be. And Glazer would be better propping up his boy with remarks like that as opposed to what comes off as a lame excuse.
He did state the reality of the rookie QB, but no where in there does is say “Lewis could do this better” or “…more of this”.
Personally I dont think MMA training, barring injury, would or should affect Lewis on the field. What does is holding out, imo. He should own up to that being a factor… Or in this case, his buddy Glazer, should own up to it for him, since he’s playing spokesperson.
Just a note: Tread lightly here with insinuating things about players you guys don’t know anything about.
Twitter is good and twitter is bad.
Fact is what’s done is done. All we can do now is go forward.
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To be fair, you posted an article insinuating Marcedes had a bad year because he was distracted "by off the field issues".
So, thats going to lead people to comment on these hypothetical issues.
I blame you, Alfie.
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by JPQ! on Feb 2, 2012 1:21 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
you talking one of those moon colony folks?
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Quickly
Draw his blood we must find out! Then we must find the real Marcedes and pray to god he’s still alive!
I find it's easiest if we all use Alfie as the scapegoat for everything.
Him and his not so hidden agendas!!!
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I hope whatever the matter was can be resolved in a positive manner.
At the end of the day this is just football. Obviously something much more serious is going on in this man’s life than the game of football. So yeah, let’s chill out with the criticism of his 2011 season.
he does deserve criticism for his on field performance
But as Alfie said, very few if any of us know these guys outside of when they are on the field and out in the community representing the Jaguars.
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I'm not saying he doesn't.
I just don’t think NOW is the time to do it. Believe me, I was hella pissed when he dropped that short wide-open touchdown pass in the Houston game.
I dont mean to sound like a bad guy, but I don't really care about his personal issues.
He gets paid to produce on the field. I just want to see him every Sunday catching footballs. I don’t care if he visits Nemours or middle schools.
Everyone remember the scene in Goodfellas, when Paulie buys into the tiki bar/restaraunt?
business bad? f-k you, pay me.
you had a fire? f-k you, pay me.
struck by lightning? f-k you, pay me.
I don’t want to hear about Marcedes, except on gamedays. I stay out of his life, he stays out of mine.
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I gotta tell you, the way you made that grilled cheese sandwich the other day...
it left a lot to be desired. IF THE BOY WANTS HIS CRUSTS CUT, THEN DAMMIT, CUT THE CRUSTS OFF!!!
Not sure if it was due to lack of sleep, problems at home, or just typical New York “don’t give a damn” but you need to straighten up and fly right, chief.
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it was a joke
a nod to your awful grilled cheese sandwich making. The word is out dude. Word is out.
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I made one on the panini press for my kids last week
capicola and tomato. With some homemade alphabet soup with a dash of hot sauce, they got over pneumonia pretty quick.
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Mmm...capicola and tomato panini sounds delicious!
I will try that for my son…and myself.
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any time I can incorporate tomato or artichoke into a meal, I'm good
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Wonder what Lewis thinks about Glazer airing personal issues
Section 442, RIP
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by unhipcat on Feb 2, 2012 12:48 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Babymama Drama
He was on TMZ a couple weeks ago. They saw him leaving court after settling on child support. That really can have a impact on your performance especially when your making millions and have to dish out thousands of dollars a month.
I like Marcedes...but he is a good example of why the contract situation in the NFL grinds my gears:
As a FA, he cashed in on a nice season with a big payday. He didn’t want to be franchised, he wanted a long term deal. So we gave it to him. His numbers in first year of that deal were not worth the money we paid. Obviously, we have to honor the contract, thats business – the player underperformed? Oh, well. Too bad for the team. I wonder how Marcedes (or the NFLPA) would react if we asked to renegotiate his deal, based on last years numbers?
However, when a player has a great season and feels he is being underpaid, he demands a new renegotiated contract. Honoring the contract is thrown out the window.
I understand the average NFL career is short, and contracts are not guaranteed, but those the risks you take being a football player.
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You answered your own question.
Teams ask players all the time to renegotiate their contracts because they know they can cut them before the season and not pay a dime.
This is why most ask for the ludicrous signing bonus. It’s truly the only guaranteed money in the contract.
and those are the risks a team takes.
That’s why rookie wages used to infuriate me. You’re paying a kid for what he did at a far inferior level. I made the point yesterday that Tim Tebow as the 25th pick makes as much if not more than Blaine Gabbert the 10th pick a year later. Hell, Sam Bradford is making more than double what Cam Newton is making.
It’s a game of risk. I’m sure the Jags would have loved nothing more than for Aaron Kampman to outplay his contract. Didn’t happen. I will never begrudge a player for his contract. Not even Mike Thomas.
It’s the owner’s fault for signing off on it.
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by Joe Fisher on Feb 2, 2012 1:45 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
He was extremely disappointing.
Hopefully he makes up for it this year. If he plays to his full potential he’ll add an exciting, game-changing element to the game – and he’ll be mentioned in the national media in sentences that contain things like “great,” unstoppable," and “pro-bowl.”
Throw the ball, score points.
The dude from Delocated in the ad on the site...
looks like the McPoyles when they take the gang hostage on Sunny.
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HA. that's exactly what I was thinking
guys looks just like McPoyles
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Did you notice one of the McPoyles is on some show called Breakout Kings?
I have never seen it, but I keep seeing a commercial for it and there is a McPoyle in it.
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I have not seen the show
But i know which one you’re talking about, they play commercials for it all the time.
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sbnation
must be raking in the cash with all these delocated ads..
Boom
by Matthew Grossberg on Feb 2, 2012 2:12 PM EST reply actions
Still had a bad year
No matter what, it was still a bad year… it doesn’t change the fact. But I am empathetic towards personal issues, they are human beings. Hope everything is alright with Lewis & he can bounce back this year.
Clearly he was distracted this season...
by Clam Dip on Feb 2, 2012 3:37 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
He's not allowed to play football.
Can you imagine the fines Goodell would give for killing a player with a roundhouse kick that shatters a helmet and crushes a skull?
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They should allow kickers to kick
But only the kickers. They would have the option of kicking the shit out of any opposing player in reach when they’re on the field. Drop kick, spin kick…whatever they can muster. Just not the jewels.
Beware the kickers.
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When I read it,
it just seems like Glazer is trying to deflect any blame that might be put on his MMA training in the offseason by tossing a vague theory out there. Glazer is just defending himself against the obvious conclusion, right or wrong, that people might come to about Lewis’ poor season. I would bet, in his own mind, he has at least considered the possibility that his influence on Lewis was a net-negative one. After all, when have you ever heard an MMA fighter praised for having “soft hands”?
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." Winston Churchill
What's the purpose of posting this article
that throws out Glazer’s vague contention that Lewis had “personal problems” and then cautioning readers and commenters not to speculate about what those “personal problems” might be? Unless one is in the know (and anyone who is and puts it out there for public dissection seems severely lacking in personal ethics, in my opinion), there’s nothing to do but speculate.
Section 442, RIP
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by unhipcat on Feb 2, 2012 4:48 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Marcedes has been in the middle of a custody/paternity
thing going back to before the season. He was seen on news blogs in court in LA (Same day/court house as T.O and Chuck Liddell). T.O had to Cadillac by having two baby momma’s in court at the same time. Lewis is fighting to get custody of his daughter, which shows character in my book. It does look like he has reached a resolve and hopefully he can put that behind him and move on.
Thanks for sharing, jay
Section 442, RIP
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by unhipcat on Feb 2, 2012 6:13 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
A Bunch of Baloney Man
Complete B S because he was able to spend alot of that BIG MONEY without being distracted right …….complete non-sense ……and complete jabronie action if you ask me !
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