Dolphins WR Jakeem Grant’s mom shreds him for dropped pass vs. Patriots

[DKphin]

One of the great things about moms is they love everything you do. Pretty much anything you do is met with unconditional approval and a hug.
Jakeem Grant’s mom isn’t that kind of mom. She’s harder on him than any of the Dolphins’ coaches.
To understand Grant and how he made to the NFL despite being 5-foot-7 with cleats on, you have to hear him explain what it was like growing up with Sylvia Whittaker as his mother.
Mother and father, actually, as Grant puts it. Whittaker had to fill both roles for him, and her style was bad cop, bad cop. He told a story in training camp that illustrated how she pushes him. When he was returning kickoffs at age 8, she would sprint down the sideline parallel with him and snap at him if he couldn’t outrun her.
“If I beat you to the end zone, you’re not running fast enough,” she’d say.
“I definitely benefited from it, though,” Grant said. “It worked on me, but I hated it. She didn’t want nothing but great things from me.

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[Beach Bum]

LOL! I love that part were he says his mom plays bad cop, bad cop. She's really pushing him. Regarding his drops, I think he will eventually get there. He's improving. We just need to be patient.

 

[DKphin]

Your mom is notoriously hard on you. How badly did she rip into you about dropping that ball at the end?

“Oh yeah, she definitely crushed me on that one. She’s like, ‘Good game, but let’s talk about this dropped touchdown that you had.’ Ah, I just took my eye off it. That’s it. She’s always my biggest critic. When it comes to my mom, she doesn’t want me to drop one ball. It doesn’t matter what ball it is or if she’s the only one who thinks I could catch it or if it’s badly thrown or something, she always thinks I should catch it. It doesn’t matter to her.”

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[finmann]

lol....If I was Jakeem I won't drop another damn ball in my life.

 

[ebozzz]

LOL! I love that part were he says his mom plays bad cop, bad cop. She's really pushing him. Regarding his drops, I think he will eventually get there. He's improving. We just need to be patient.

I'd much rather have a player with better size that has his natural abilities and if we ever get that he's likely to become expendable. Until then though, I hope that he does keep improving. That drop he had was terrible but I LOVE the adjustment he made on the catch for the TD.

This part of the interview right here.... :D

I’ve gotta ask Gase in the press conference now: Did Jakeem Grant’s mother call you about the drop?

“Man, he threatens it, too. He threatens me by saying, ‘If you’re not doing what I ask you, I will call your mom.’ Come on, Coach. We’ve gotta go there?”

You’re joking. Gase says that?

“Yeah.”

 

[FSU Truth]

This is a great interview.

I like seeing these things about these players...humanizes them considerably. Most of the time we think of them as just guys to win games...pieces to the team we are a fan of. We forget that they are just young men trying to achieve their dream. We bash them, they get attacked on social media, but in the end, they are mostly are doing their best. IT is easy to insult and judge when we ourselves rarely have our own work evaluated at the same level these guys do.

Wish the best for the kid.

 

[t_sblack99z28]

I wonder if she would adopt Parker?

 

[beanh8er]

It was good until the last part and then you can tell Jakeem wanted to get out of there

 

[SCall13]

He's dropped a few passes, but there is no doubt having him on the field makes opposing coaches and defenses cringe. Especially since Drake is out there full time now.

 

[ReppinThe941]

This is a great interview.

I like seeing these things about these players...humanizes them considerably. Most of the time we think of them as just guys to win games...pieces to the team we are a fan of. We forget that they are just young men trying to achieve their dream. We bash them, they get attacked on social media, but in the end, they are mostly are doing their best. IT is easy to insult and judge when we ourselves rarely have our own work evaluated at the same level these guys do.

Wish the best for the kid.

I agree to a certain extent that some fans do a very poor job of humanizing these athletes...

But in the same breath, I refuse to feel sappy or have the same compassion you seem to share for them...

Being a professional athlete is 100% a privilege and an honor...

These young men are not trying to "achieve" their dreams, they are living their dreams...

As with any position in the public eye, you are open to ridicule and public criticism....

Politicians, Athletes, Actors, ETC..

Just look at all of these recent sexual assault allegations....

People in the public eye, that make an inordinate amount of cheddar, deserve to be much more closely monitored and scrutinized...

Do you think Chris forester was "mostly doing his best"?

Do you think Gronk trying to end White's career was unworthy of the social media backlash?

Do you think Russell Wilson throwing an INT on the 1 yard line to lose the super bowl should be chalked up to "Just another day at the office"...

Ill answer those questions for you - No.

The Kenny Stills drop against Seattle and Jakeems drop against the Pats should bother both of them significantly...

They make incredible amounts of $ to run and catch a football, if they can't do that well enough, then they should hear about it accordingly...

I will happily trade Jakeem jobs, the pay bump from $60K to $540K would be well worth the extra public attention and scrutiny...



I would keep my nose clean and work as hard as I possibly could...

This is a time when we need to be taking back more control from all of these flawed people that live in the public spectrum....

Not lending them more excuses....

 

[RalphX19X]

EXPect big game from Grant this week. He finally broke through now keep it up.

 

[FSU Truth]

I agree to a certain extent that some fans do a very poor job of humanizing these athletes...

But in the same breath, I refuse

I would quote the whole post, but the need to give each sentence its own line is nauseating.

I don't think I excused them, but when you hear about fans going to their social media...it is uncalled for. It is funny how fans take the sport much more seriously then most of the professionals do. I don't mean that as a simple: "the players don't care", but under the idea that they have a better grasp and perspective that a bad game or losing a game has. They fully understand they are getting paid millions to play a game. As a result, bad games only effect that team, each player knows it, the coaches know it, but fans look at it as a personal insult.

 

[maralieus]

Kind of a weird interview, but entertaining anyways. Felt like the interviewer was trying to be a counselor or something. I'm not sure Grant loved him taking shots at his mothers attitude. Grant seems like a really cool guy though, so no biggie it seems.

 

[ReppinThe941]

I would quote the whole post, but the need to give each sentence its own line is nauseating.

I don't think I excused them, but when you hear about fans going to their social media...it is uncalled for. It is funny how fans take the sport much more seriously then most of the professionals do. I don't mean that as a simple: "the players don't care", but under the idea that they have a better grasp and perspective that a bad game or losing a game has. They fully understand they are getting paid millions to play a game. As a result, bad games only effect that team, each player knows it, the coaches know it, but fans look at it as a personal insult.

I find built in excuses for multi-million dollar athletes to play poorly and act a fool even more nauseating....

The players make their living because of the ticket sales, merchandise sales, television contracts etc...

IE - players cash those checks because of the fans...

Bottom line - If you are a fan that supports a team, you can freely act / react in whichever manner you deem appropriate...

No matter how much it irks the FSU Truths of the world....

 

[Sofla328]

I'd much rather have a player with better size that has his natural abilities and if we ever get that he's likely to become expendable. Until then though, I hope that he does keep improving. That drop he had was terrible but I LOVE the adjustment he made on the catch for the TD.

I'm not sure there is a person on the planet that has Jakeem's natural ability AND great size.