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Here's a story from the New Orleans Times-Picayune with a couple of more details about third-round safety Chad Jones' car accident that very nearly cost him his left leg.
I'm sure more details are going to come out over the next few days and weeks, including the results of the toxicology tests that were done when Jones got to the hospital. The good news is that the blood seems to be flowing well throughout his leg, and he's awake and alert. Under the circumstances, can't ask for much better than that.
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Tragic.
ReplyDeleteAlmost 31 years to the day when Troy Archer was killed (June 22 1979) in a car accident in Bergen County.
Time flies, but tragedies never stop, do they?
Almost time for USA vs Ghana kick off.
Whatever, looks like a Michael Johnson has a job and Jerry has shored up the position with rolle and grant. Jones didn't have any courtesy for the citizens of LA. or us Giants fans and since it looks like he will live I AM DONE GIVING ANY SYMPATHY TO THIS JACK ASS!!!!
ReplyDeleteDude, what's your problem with Jones? Unless toxicology proves otherwise, he just got in a car accident. What do you mean when you say you are "done giving any sympathy to this jack ass?"
ReplyDeleteGeez, Wayne, that's harsh even for you. I haven't read anything to suggest that drugs or alcohol were involved. None of the reports that I have read have even indicated excessive speed.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading this blog since the beginning but this the first time that I have been moved to comment. I hope Jones has a full recovery although I doubt that he will ever recover enough to play football again.
--Rob
Yeah, he was with his workout buddies at 6 in the morning. Or maybe they were going to feed the homeless breakfast as they do every Friday morning. He was up to no good and now the Giants are out a 3rd round pick because he didn't listen to Coach Coughlin's words of advice on minicamp go away day.
ReplyDeleteHixon and now Jones...looks like a bad start to the coming season. Hope this isn't a continued trend for the G-Men!
ReplyDeleteWayno - You don't have to run down to the nearest church and light a candle for the kid, but you don't have to be abusive, either. 1) The Tox reports aren't back yet, but everyone involved said he wasn't drinking 2) A young single man who just signed a big contract. Yeah, how shocking that he was out late. I NEVER had anything like that to celebrate and when I was his age, I not only closed bars, I stayed there after hours. That's part of being young. If you were virginal saint in your early twenties, feel free to cast stones, otherwise shut it. 3) The Giants are out a third round pick? Like the guy planned it. "Hey guys! I just signed my contract! Who wants to get in a horrific auto crash with me so I can f**k over the Giants?"! C'mon! Like the guy wouldn't trade his signing bonus and first year's pay to go back in time and NOT get hurt! Young men (and a hell of a lot of old ones, too!), often make some bad choices. Should he have been home studying his playbook? Yeah, ideally. In an ideal world, grown men would have the common sense to have a "kill switch" on deep sea oil rigs. They do in Europe, but here it's "anti-business". Mistakes are made by all of us a trillion times every day. Most are, thankfully, inconsequential. However, there are those that haunt individuals and/or organizations and/or countries for years. Jones made a mistake. It was not deliberate and, ultimately, no one has lost more because it than him. I'm not saying let's hold a candlelight vigil, but there's no need to be so angry. I can guarantee Jones feels much worse about than you do.
ReplyDeleteDude, thats spectacularly harsh. firstly, he was up driving a 6:15am means he was automatically up to no good. what the hell dude? there are many, many legitimate reasons why he could be up at that hour. for starters, its not exactly the middle of the night. plenty (and i do mean plenty) of people are up way earlier than that. if it was 3am yeah, maybe you'd have a point. but 6am, for a kid who has probably spent the last few years waking up at 6am and earlier to get some gym time in before college, thats nothing man.
ReplyDeleteeither way, right now, you don't have a fucking clue what happened, nobody does except Jones and his buddies, so quit being a douche and pretending you know everything until the facts come out.
Fair enough points, but a 3RD ROUND PICK!!!!! THAT D WAS ATROCIUS LAST YEAR. 6:15 am is late, really late to be driving and it is not early if u read between the lines. And by the way Jones could care less about wayno2424 or dweez and has done nothing for the Giants so why do u care?
ReplyDeletewayno - I'll be honest, I'm not losing sleep over it. However, that doesn't mean you can't be a bit empathetic. Yeah, losing a third rounder hurts. But we all know the Giants have drafted guys in every round that have been total busts and it's not like the guy did it on purpose. He's somebody's kid. If you can't feel any sympathy for him, at least, feel a little for his folks. As I said before, no one is calling for a candle light vigil. I'm more concerned about you. That kind of anger eats you up from the inside out. If a football player getting into a car crash gets you that upset, you need, for your own sake, to step back and get some perspective. He didn't do it to screw you or the Giants. Hopefully, and I mean this sincerely, everybody you love is ok. After that, all the other stuff is kind of irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteUncrowded street, early morning. One should not "lose control" of their vehicle and crash it into a pole. I have little tolerance for this kind of dangerous driving.
ReplyDeleteThat Chad Jones is a live and well and that no one was killed is the most important thing.
That his toxicology report comes back clean is the second.
That he learns from whatever happened here and never repeats the mistake is third.
Just ignore Wayno, he's obviously a troll.
ReplyDeleteActually he's not. He's an angry fan who lost his seat to the PSL fiasco and hasn't completed the 5-step mourning process of loss. He's still on "anger".
ReplyDeleteI'm not looking forward to "depressed".
Wayno... no alcohol... whaddya got now?
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