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Commentary: What to Do with Manny Wright

Good read. Its shame things turned out this way, but Saban knew the risks. Its no big deal. Evans is looking good, and Rod Wright has immense talent. I think we will still draft a DT next year though.
 
Good article. I think Saban realized that this project wasn't working out so well and got Wilkerson, Evans, and Rodrique as insurance. Hopefully Manny straightens things out. I think Mueller's just tabbing interest to see if there's a bonefide must-trade scenario. If there isn't any, they'll just store him away on the non-football injury list and hope he agrees to undergo therapy or such.

For some reason the only USC players I ever root for turn out horrible. There's Manny, Poole, and Chauncey Washington (who was our feature back in high school). Too bad it doesn't work on Trojans I don't like.
 
Good read, really sick of hearing about Manny. Hope Saban gets something for this kid, hope the kid makes something of his talent, elsewhere.
 
Well he could be used as a vender to lose some weight while the season is in play.
 
i rekon just cut the loss and cut the lard bag we dont him possibly disrupting the team/coaches in any way let him have a cry somewhere else!
 
I'm for option number 3, if he is available to be put on the non-injury list, than do that. It looks good on the team. He still has undeniable talent . . see where his head is at in a few months and if he wants to give it one more shot next year, than let him . . . by then if he hasn't straightened up, cut him loose . . I doubt u get a trade from him . . . especially comming from Miami, Saban has Vick looking like a Saint . . . brought Ricky back . . . if he can't figure whats wrong with a 2nd year DT, I'm pretty sure nobody else wants to find out either.
 
As much as I would like to cut him, I don’t think you should. There are two points to be made. The first one is that Manny has talent, and he showed that last season when he got his chances. The second is that he has a problem and a bad one at that. If you cut him now, it might just end up being a worse case scenario that Clarett (sp?). He is a human being that needs help, let’s not turn our back to him. He can help us out in the future and I think Saben knows that. The article pointed out a great position, if we cut him, what are we showing to other teams. That after our experience with Ricky, we don’t care about our players; we wont help them the next time they need help? Football players are humans and they have there problems, the only difference between us and them is that the media blows there stuff out of proportion sometimes.
 
Kdawg954 said:
I'm for option number 3, if he is available to be put on the non-injury list, than do that. It looks good on the team. He still has undeniable talent . . see where his head is at in a few months and if he wants to give it one more shot next year, than let him . . . by then if he hasn't straightened up, cut him loose . . I doubt u get a trade from him . . . especially comming from Miami, Saban has Vick looking like a Saint . . . brought Ricky back . . . if he can't figure whats wrong with a 2nd year DT, I'm pretty sure nobody else wants to find out either.
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IMO, non-injury football list is the only option. This is bigger than Manny. Players with problems have to know that the business end of football dictates that the team will make the decision vis a vis their futures, regardless of what problems they may have. If he wants to work his issues out and stay in football, he can either work them out in the framework that Nick Saban and the Fins front office provides or his agent can work out a compensation package that the Fins can agree with.

Other than that, he has no options. And thats for any player that is under contract with the Fins...or any team for that matter.
 
Put him on the non-football injury list and offer him all the help he needs. Then Manny has no excuses not to get his life straightened out. Exhaust all of our efforts and if he doesn't want the help or doesn't want to cooperate then cut him next year. It's that simple.
 
The way I see it, Manny has 2 big issues- Depression and maturity. They intertwine, but also work independently.

In order for him to help his depression, he'll need to mature as a person. Sometimes this takes a little tough love. I think Saban and Mueller called around judging interest in a trade knowing full well that a kid with maturity issues who cannot practice while on Depression medication would not attract a bite from anyone, and it didn't. And I think letting the media run with the story was Nick's way of saying "I can let you go elsewhere, but nobody's going to want you like this".

I beleive Nick wants Manny to succeed, not just on the football field but in life, but knows he must toughen up as a person in order to battle his demons. This is why he just hasn't flat-out released him yet.
 
PhinGeneral said:
The way I see it, Manny has 2 big issues- Depression and maturity. They intertwine, but also work independently.

In order for him to help his depression, he'll need to mature as a person. Sometimes this takes a little tough love. I think Saban and Mueller called around judging interest in a trade knowing full well that a kid with maturity issues who cannot practice while on Depression medication would not attract a bite from anyone, and it didn't. And I think letting the media run with the story was Nick's way of saying "I can let you go elsewhere, but nobody's going to want you like this".

I beleive Nick wants Manny to succeed, not just on the football field but in life, but knows he must toughen up as a person in order to battle his demons. This is why he just hasn't flat-out released him yet.
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My big question for him is why the hell does he miss Compton? Is he stupid?
 
Non-football injury list.
Hopefully he'll accept help, get healed, then either be the talent he was thought to be able to ...
He is only 22...
 
Yeah, I think stashing him on the non-football injury list is the best move. If his depression is as serious as it's been made out to be, he'd do alot better with all the treatment and counseling options made available to him by the team than with what he could do on his own. Depresssion is a really rough condition to deal with, and if Manny is willing to make an attempt at helping himself, I say we make every treatment option available to him that we can and show him that this team does care about its players, on and off the field.
 
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