On NFL Network, the great Kris Jenkins is going to talk to Warren Sapp about stuff on the DL and stuff. Be sure to watch them. 10 AM NFL Network.
I was talking with my father about this the other day. Most people would never expect it, but Warren Sapp is one of the better analysts on TV.
Oh crap, I really want to see this, but don't have NFL network. If someone can find a link to this online, please share? The reason I want to see this, above and beyond all other reasons, is of course that Jenkins once said this about Sapp:
Sapp was mouthy but damn he was good and I agree he is smart and makes sense. Oddly enough he never to my knowledge incurred a 15 yard personal foul in his entire career so he wasn't a dirty player either.
he chop blocked mark tauscher i think it was which ended his season immediately. mark wasn't even part of the play.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/30/jenkins-weight-got-to-420-pounds/ Jets nose tackle Kris Jenkins is a defensive player of the year candidate and a big reason the team is leading the AFC East. But after a series of injuries when he played in Carolina, Jenkins got so out of shape that he would have been a better fit in sumo than in football. In an interview with Warren Sapp today on NFL Network’s NFL GameDay Morning, Jenkins revealed that he has weighed as much as 420 pounds. Jenkins played just four games in 2004 and just one in 2005, and he said that he let himself get into terrible shape while he was hurt. “I got up to like 420,” Jenkins said. “Yeah, I was in Miami every chance I got to travel, out there to party and all that, you know Miami will do that to you.” Jenkins, who is currently listed at 349 pounds, also addressed his comments in 2005, when he said he hated Sapp. Jenkins now says the quotes were taken out of context and that he never really hated Sapp.
Are you talking about that Chad Clifton incident, or is this something different altogether? I remember Sapp took a cheap shot at Clifton while he was just standing around watching the interception getting run back. His season also ended upon that cheap hit. After the game, Sapp and Mike Sherman got in a shouting match as they walked off the field about what happened on that play. It was from that incident the league altered the "unnecessary roughness" rule to protect players from having this happen again.
yea that was it. i knew it was one of those two. but yeah, i dont know if he had many cheap hits like that but i definitely remember that one.
right, it wasn't a chop block at all. It was a blindside hit running full speed, intending to hurt a player who was 40 yards away from the play and just slowly jogging ... and then celebrating his "feat," jumping up and down excitedly and shouting and smilling while half a dozen medical staff clustered around a lifeless body on the field, waiting for the stretcher to come onto the field to take Clifton to the hospital for a week, and out of football for over a year. That is what is was. ADDED: p.s. it seems the jerk is STILL laughing about what he did!
I don't think that is true. I may be able to confirm it one way or the other when I get a chance. Re: Quack I don't like Sapp at all. He tries to be too funny. Deion Sanders is one of my favorite studio analysts. I thought he was awful on CBS a few years ago. He's so much better on NFL Network for whatever reason.
Yeah, I saw that. Sapp was annoying for the entire show and his comments about the Clifton incident were the topper.
Here's more background on what Clifton went through -- and how utterly remorseless Sapp was about it. Like I said earlier this week when this interview was announced, I already liked Jenkins, but my affection for him quadrupled instantly when I was reminded he was the guy who made that statement about Sapp. There is no football player I despise as much as Warren Sapp. Anyway, about Clifton's injury: You have to realize that this was a road game, Clifton was in a Tampa hospital. For four days. With an injury that many were speculating was career ending, possibly afftecting Clifton's ability to even just walk. And not even a call.
