shula_guy
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Some of you are crazy lol.
Look, I don't feel bad for the guy . . . he joined a hated rival and I wanted them to lose last night . . . feeling sympathy for him was lost when he put on that green and white uniform. However, I don't hate JT . . . some of these "burn in hell" comments are just overboard. There would be much more hate towards him if the Fins actually offered him a contract and he declined us to play with the Jets, that is not the case, and I can't knock a man for not begging and pleading with the Fins to offer him a contract and actually going to another team who did offer him a contract, even if it is the Jets.
Trying to discredit his solid play with the Dolphins because he is a Jet now is just comical, JT was a great player for this team for years . . . a face of this defense and former DPOY . . . he is getting older now, and he wanted to win a ring . . . meaning he wanted to still play. Nobody knows if Miami offered him a contract would he have stayed but clearly he wanted to continue playing and the Jets offered him a deal and he took it.
Now I'm not sure if his motives were to say FU to the Dolphins, or further his acting career, or whatever . . . but to trash this man like he is being trashed in this thread is a bit much.
Lets be fair about this:
It was JT and Porter who started problems on the flight home from London
It was JT who refused to attend the minnicamps as was requested of him
It was Parcells who resigned him after he went to the Redskins
They did offer him a new contract at the end of the season and JT declined it to test the waters of FA
By the time he realized his services were not in demand as much as he hoped and he wanted to resign the team had already decided to go in another direction and his roster spot was filled with another player.
JT was under the missconception that the Miami community thought the sun rose and sunk on his every whim. I have no ill will toward him but as far as I am concerned when he left and how he left burned his bridges. He is a Jet player now and anything good he did as a Dolphin player is overshadowed by his behavior over the past 3-4 years.
I feel sorry for his poor wife who lives in the Miami community and has to live with the embarassment he brought to his family. He is a quitter, a liar, a cheater, and an egomaniac. That is his legacy.