NFL players are surprisingly humans too so if he saw that comment and didn’t like it…what’s it to you that he blocked you? And he didn’t have a injury plaqued career in college. He missed a few games his rookie year and a linemen fell into his knee, he lucky he didn’t tear an ACL with how it looked. Not sure why you think he shouldn’t feel some type of way when you made a silly ass comment. He surely seemed nimble when he ran the 40, or showed agility during run blocking. His weight only became an issue when he got out he was around 380 and when Lawson was beating his ass in camp. he handled plenty of good pass rushers his rookie year too. Should he potentially get his weight down? Yeah that would be great. He’s a physical specimen who hovered around 360 for most his career. If he’s serious about his craft, he will do the necessary adjustments to do that, and not because a guy like you tried to come at him.
Damn. A true meeting of warriors. Becton’s one of the lame professional athletes that gets worked up over every day dudes internet criticisms. And you’re one of the lame every day dudes who feels the needs to attack professional athletes personally on the internet.
There have been so many movies about sycophants whose obsession goes over the line. Finally, the perfect title.
Pointless to bring Becton back this year. Jets should just suck it up and honestly, put Fatboi on notice that he will have to earn the starting job if and when he gets back on the field. In hindsight, they should have made Zach do the same.
That could possibly be it, but when his girlfriend tweeted something along the lines of "proud you overcame your addiction" when he got drafted, not 100% sure that is the addiction. How many 20 year old girlfriends would tweet about an eating disorder when drafted and going to make millions off of it. Answers to questions like this need to be answered, because we all know that Belichek knows what his addiction is/was.
He also had a flagged drug test at the combine which apparently we didn’t seem to care too much about. Sounds like it was more likely to be drugs or alcohol. Both can coincide with struggling with weight as a byproduct of that addition unfortunately.
He should be competing with Fant at LT and or Moses at RT (who should be brought back) in 2022. After a bad offseason and now an injury that was surprisingly season-ending, he needs to earn a starting job. And especially so because the OL has been solid without him.
I did not know about the drug test, is that not a big red flag to anyone else? Pretty surprised we took him in light of that. Not that I care if he smokes weed or whatever but it says a lot about your discipline if you can't put it on hold for a few weeks for the biggest job interview of your life. Like they say, the combine drug test is an IQ test rather than a drug test.
The article was very vague as it says flagged, not failed so I don’t know. But as you and the other poster alluded to, Douglas and the girlfriend both alluded to an addiction. Shame on Douglas and the Jets brass for either letting that call get out there or Douglas even bringing that up on the call.
I'm less concerned about his weight or addiction than I am about his inability to stay on the field. Of course his weight or addiction may well be the reason he can't stay healthy.
These things are unpredictable. The medical staff probably used the average healing time and Becton's healing time is above average, unfortunately. Or maybe there are other things going on that we don't know about.
I hadn't heard about that comment/tweet. That IS a red flag IMO and changes my opinion of him if true. And if true it makes me consider the possibility that his struggles so far aren't really weight-based (although the weight issues could be magnified by a less than committed attitude that an active addiction could produce). If were up to me, I'd certainly trade him if I got a strong offer (along the lines of Adams trade). I just don't see him going on to have a mostly injury free career, and I'd rather move on from him now while he could probably bring a good return still.
https://arrowheadaddict.com/2020/04/18/mekhi-becton-failed-drug-test-draft-huge-break-kc-chiefs/ In the report/tweet he says players can't help but 'toke up' even knowing they will be tested at the combine, so for me this is a smoking weed issue, dumb as fuck but not the worst thing if he can be kept off it, if being the main word. Though this time is injury was caused by another player, it doesn't mean he has been rehabbing with 100% effort and easy to fall back to bad habits, this is only speculation, of course.
I made sure to stress "If true", because I don't know whether it is or isn't, nor if true, what the addiction is. But it's troubling. As to the pot thing, maybe I'm just an old fart, but I believe that smoking pot can be a chronic, if not outright addictive, behavior. Regardless, while it might be okay for regular adults to smoke pot wherever and whenever they want, paid professionals are another matter. You're being paid to perform at your highest ability, and smoking pot puts that in jeopardy at a minimum. If Becton's attitude is "No big deal", I'd get rid of him.
I am sure my views on athletes smoking pot are well documented on here lol but if you haven't read them then I agree with your statement 100%
