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gogeta4 said:
I always though jeff thomas was bi polar undiagnosed.
He quit the same way on his high school team and i think its the mood swings.

He still had some untapped talent there and would have killed in dawsons scheme
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Yea he seemed like someone who would be depressed type sh, he just has those eyes that hes bored all the time no matter what he is doing. IDK
 
DMoney said:
I think we glorify players like this too much because of highlights. He quit on his team in the middle of the season. I don't want to judge him personally because he had a rough upbringing and I'm not in his shoes, but his career was a tremendous disappointment.

Mike Harley had a much better career for us because of his work ethic and maturity. That's the type of guy we should be celebrating.

The goal, of course, is to have an Andre Johnson with Hall of Fame talent and Hall of Fame work ethic. But the successful receivers here (Hurns, Osborn, Restrepo, Berrios, Harley, Hankerson, Dorsett) always have it between the ears.
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Don’t wanna judge him personally but at the same time say he’s a quitter. And yea maybe he did but give him a bit of slack. The guy had a really hard upbringing and personal life. He has a lot of personal issues. A lot of people in his situation have come up a lot shorter and done worse with no real role models to look up to. Knowing many from that part of St. Louis, lots don’t get out alive or without being incarcerated. You talk about some people from a place of such privilege man.
 
Canezhill21 said:
Don’t wanna judge him personally but at the same time say he’s a quitter. And yea maybe he did but give him a bit of slack. The guy had a really hard upbringing and personal life. He has a lot of personal issues. A lot of people in his situation have come up a lot shorter and done worse with no real role models to look up to. Knowing many from that part of St. Louis, lots don’t get out alive or without being incarcerated. You talk about some people from a place of such privilege man.
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I thought DMoney's assessment was rather fair. He balanced harsh reality of his character with regards to team. Specifically, quitting on more than one team. That's an issue but in fairness DMoney clearly acknowledged JT had a hard life growing up and should be given some slack. Nothing wrong with what he said especially since it's true and had nothing to do with DMoney's background, which you brought up out of nowhere.
 
MedleyCane said:
I thought DMoney's assessment was rather fair. He balanced harsh reality of his character with regards to team. Specifically, quitting on more than one team. That's an issue but in fairness DMoney clearly acknowledged JT had a hard life growing up and should be given some slack. Nothing wrong with what he said especially since it's true and had nothing to do with DMoney's background, which you brought up out of nowhere.
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Maybe you right. But sometimes it’s cool to see things and not mention anything negative about people or even say anything at all and let that slide. Especially when it comes to people with real issues mentally and emotionally. People that have shown to have difficulties regulating their own emotions. Some that have real mental health issues and need possible further help instead of people dogging them for no reason on a message board. That’s just me though.
 
Canezhill21 said:
Don’t wanna judge him personally but at the same time say he’s a quitter. And yea maybe he did but give him a bit of slack. The guy had a really hard upbringing and personal life. He has a lot of personal issues. A lot of people in his situation have come up a lot shorter and done worse with no real role models to look up to. Knowing many from that part of St. Louis, lots don’t get out alive or without being incarcerated. You talk about some people from a place of such privilege man.
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He’s not the not the only person in cfb or profesional sports to have gone through tough times.
Do you know where and how Michael Irvin grew up? What about Antonio brown? Dude was homeless in high school and went through a whole bunch of sht squatting in empty houses.
What about Demaryius Thomas? Both his mom and grandma arrested on drug charges when he was 11. His grandma got mandatory life and his mom got 20. They never saw him play live until they got their sentences commuted and he was in the nfl.
Stories like Jeff Thomas are very common.
What about James Williams? His Mom got shot ten times by his father while he watched.

Dude was given a chance that very few get and he wasted it.
He was surrounded by role models and people that made it with similar circumstances. Let’s not act like his situation was unique. Sad, very sad unfortunately, but not unique.
 
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pacusmc said:
He’s not the not the only person in cfb or profesional sports to have gone through tough times.
Do you know where and how Michael Irvin grew up? What about Antonio brown? Dude was homeless in high school and went through a whole bunch of sht squatting in empty houses.
What about Demaryius Thomas? Both his mom and grandma arrested on drug charges when he was 11. His grandma got mandatory life and his mom got 20. They never saw him play live until they got their sentences commuted and he was in the nfl.
Stories like Jeff Thomas are very common.
What about James Williams? His Mom got shot ten times by his father while he watched.

Dude was given a chance that very few get and he wasted it.
He was surrounded by role models and people that made it with similar circumstances. Let’s not act like his situation was unique. Sad, very sad unfortunately, but not unique.
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Just because others have overcome doesn’t mean you can’t have sympathy for the ones that don’t. The ones that’s do overcome are far out numbered by the ones that don’t. My b for having sympathy for them. We place all players into a vacuum and expect all to be the same. I been around bruh and many like him. It’s hard. Sometimes life gets you and sometimes they need a little bit of grace.
 
Playing for manny and enos will make you crazy. He was as talented as any reciever we’ve had here since 2001 him ahmmon and Stacey coley are the most talented guys we’ve had. Along with Hankerson, Berrios and Dorsett probably next. I think Tommy streeter and Travis Benjamin deserves some love for that 2nd team spot as well if we leaving out Dre and the dudes before him.
 
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they did a documentary on JT's high school, '89 Blocks' (or something like that). It really foreshadowed what was to come with him at Miami

I'll never forget the scene when he... (ahem), stepped away from football, and his high school coach said to the rest of the team, "Hey, if you guys want him back to win state, fine. But I'm done with this guy. But it's your call."

I was like... sheesh!!
 
I understand that JT was a head case, but wasn’t it documented that Harley was also very ****y and made fun of Restrepo for going as hard as he did in practice? I forgot where I heard it, but I recall, Harley was not always going 100% in practice and gave new guys like Restrepo a hard time. I just recall watching AA practice clips of Harley and not seeing the same drive in practice clips here.

Harley broke records here, but I always believed he had another gear that he never achieved here.
 
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Richards was a better receiver than him, I can’t get over the muffed punt and he had a chance to make it and dropped the TD against the gators. Now his potential was through the roof, and he had more of that than any receiver here in the past 10 seasons. He was even better than Trader coming out of HS.
 
HEELSMOKE said:
The discussion came up the in live about Jeff Thomas .
Personally he’s one of all time favorite recent canes of all time along with Jaquan and Pinckney

I would say he’s was most talented WR in the last 10+ years
My arguement for this

He was our Best Punt Return in the last 10 years
He was the best Deep Ball Receiver in that span
Despite his height he was probably best 50/50 ball receiver in 10 years
Alll while having Nkosi Perry and Jarren Williams as his QB ,the worst QBs of the last 10 years
On top of the Ron Dugans has turned out to be the worse WR coach we every hired .

He was awesome to watch
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Most objectively wrong porst I've seen on this board in a minute.

Berrios was a better PR in that period.
AR and Restrepo better deep WRs.
AR, Osborn, and Rambo better 50/50 WRs.
Garcia and Williams worse QBs.
Gattis easily the worst WR corch.

And overall, the Coleys Harleys, and Restrepos of the world have been clearly better. Plus, Thomas was a ****** teammate who quit on the U.

Basically everything you said was either wrong, dumb, and/or drug-induced. Sober up before you porst again.
 
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