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Please forgive me for yet another thread on Ricky Williams, but I couldn't believe the articles by Dave Neal and Greg Cote this morning in the Herald. They both basically seem to be excuse-making for a guy who has had way too many excuses made for him already.

Even if you accept the far-fetched idea that Ricky was somehow "forced" to medicate his social anxiety disorder with marijuana, I don't see how you forgive the guy for completely abandoning the team on the eve of the 2004 season. That move basically cost Wannstedt his job (thankfully so, but I digress).

I suppose sportswriters feel like they must be contrarians and jump to Ricky's defense.

I say he deserves all the scorn he has received and will receive from Fin-Nation.
 
I could care less if these sports writers want to make excuses for Ricky, his NFL career is over now. Anything they say / write in defense of Ricky at this stage is laughable. Ricky has blown every single chance he's ever been given, and you can't make excuses for him anymore in my opinion....

Bye-bye Ricky!!!!!....:bong2:

PHINZ RULE!!!!
 
Wannstedt lost his job because he was an idiot who based an entire team around a single player. He would have lost his job if Ricky had gotten hurt for the season too because then we'd see how useless he was without talent. Well, he was useless with talent too but that's another point.
As for "abandoning" his team. Hell, I quit my job the other day because it sucked and I know that made it harder for the people there until they find a replacement, but I'm not going to stay at a job I hate to keep other people happy. He has the right to leave whenever the hell he wants, it screwed our team up in 2004 (three years ago if you're keeping track at home) but that team would have sucked with Jim Brown at tailback, that had to have been the worse offensive line in football.
Go ahead, say I'm making excuses for the guy but the truth is that if he has problems, it's none of our business. I wish him the best, I hope he stays clean and lives a long and happy life, just like I wish on everyone else. The talent is undeniable and I will probably wonder what could have been, but at the end of the day Ricky needs to take care of Ricky and if that means being out of football then so be it.



Also, if nothing else, the team can move on without him. We have a decent backup to Ronnie Brown now, an offensive coach, and a team that (gasp!) doesn't revolve entirely around Ricky anymore. I liked him as much as anyone else, but at this point he's expendable.
 
popularwar said:
Wannstedt lost his job because he was an idiot who based an entire team around a single player. He would have lost his job if Ricky had gotten hurt for the season too because then we'd see how useless he was without talent. Well, he was useless with talent too but that's another point.
As for "abandoning" his team. Hell, I quit my job the other day because it sucked and I know that made it harder for the people there until they find a replacement, but I'm not going to stay at a job I hate to keep other people happy. He has the right to leave whenever the hell he wants, it screwed our team up in 2004 (three years ago if you're keeping track at home) but that team would have sucked with Jim Brown at tailback, that had to have been the worse offensive line in football.
Go ahead, say I'm making excuses for the guy but the truth is that if he has problems, it's none of our business. I wish him the best, I hope he stays clean and lives a long and happy life, just like I wish on everyone else. The talent is undeniable and I will probably wonder what could have been, but at the end of the day Ricky needs to take care of Ricky and if that means being out of football then so be it.



Also, if nothing else, the team can move on without him. We have a decent backup to Ronnie Brown now, an offensive coach, and a team that (gasp!) doesn't revolve entirely around Ricky anymore. I liked him as much as anyone else, but at this point he's expendable.
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Nicely put, popularwar
 
Ricky has a social anxiety disorder and that really sucks for him on a daily basis. I wish him nothing but good things.

I do think that the NFL needs to revamp the system. Just about once a week a player is pulled over with a DUI. They get a slap on the wrist and get to come back again and again. I think if the NFL is going to keep it's stand on Mary Jane they should include DUI's with it. The stats don't lie on DUI's......THEY KILL PEOPLE EVERY DAY!!! But that is okay b/c the NFL has HUGE CONTRACTS with the beer companies of the world. Hell they even sell it at the games!!!

I have no issue with the NFL being hard on illegal drugs. But I do have MAJOR issues with the NFL allowing it's players to be pulled over with a DUI and not get a 4 game vacation without pay!!!!

If I had a choice of driving on a road with a Million stoners or just one DRUNK. That is an easy choice for me to make.....Looks like it will be a traffic jam of hungry laid back people.
 
you have to assume that cam and randy knew about this before it became public, hence the reason for the drafting of lorenzo booker in the third round.
 
Ricky was likable, I like the guy as a player and as a person.

Yes failing a drug test has let Miami down and I am pissed but I dont hate him for it.

My personal view on marijuana might have something to do with htat.

I myself dont smoke but I know plenty who do and although I dont always agree with their drug use I dont hate them for that.

I drink and I've been late for work because I was out all night drinking, everyone has their vices.

I think we will still see Ricky scoring TD's in the NFL one day....too bad it probably wont be for Miami again.

Ricky is goofy. He's obviously untrustworthy. But here's why he always was easy to root for: He was likable. It's as simple as that. You couldn't talk to Ricky and not like him. That separates him from the chorus of bitter and angry druggies who have littered the sports world.

Even if you tried otherwise -- and I did -- he was fun to be around. After a game, he'd describe how the Jets' Marvin Jones pulled him down by his dreadlocks. In a football-only locker room, he'd say how he'd been a better fit in the 1960s, when athletes spoke freely on social issues.

Even in the circus of his previous reinstatement, when he showed up barefoot behind a podium after Saban's first practice, his agent Leigh Steinberg spoke the words that most people thought: "Even if you want to, you can't stay mad at Ricky."

There's no need to be mad today. Truth is, if you're talking football, you'd feel pretty good as a Dolphins fan. Your general manager, Randy Mueller, was the only one to diagnose Ricky's football risk properly going back to their New Orleans days, when Mueller traded him to the Dolphins for a treasure chest of draft picks.

This new Dolphins regime hadn't called him, publicly courted him or so much as given a quote that winked in his direction. It hadn't just Ricky-proofed itself with the drafting of rookie running back Lorenzo Booker.

It gave every indication that when he was reinstated by the NFL they'd have nothing to do with him beyond shipping him elsewhere. You were reminded why Friday.
-Dave Hyde
Sun Sentinal
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popularwar said:
Wannstedt lost his job because he was an idiot who based an entire team around a single player. He would have lost his job if Ricky had gotten hurt for the season too because then we'd see how useless he was without talent. Well, he was useless with talent too but that's another point.
As for "abandoning" his team. Hell, I quit my job the other day because it sucked and I know that made it harder for the people there until they find a replacement, but I'm not going to stay at a job I hate to keep other people happy. He has the right to leave whenever the hell he wants, it screwed our team up in 2004 (three years ago if you're keeping track at home) but that team would have sucked with Jim Brown at tailback, that had to have been the worse offensive line in football.
Go ahead, say I'm making excuses for the guy but the truth is that if he has problems, it's none of our business. I wish him the best, I hope he stays clean and lives a long and happy life, just like I wish on everyone else. The talent is undeniable and I will probably wonder what could have been, but at the end of the day Ricky needs to take care of Ricky and if that means being out of football then so be it.



Also, if nothing else, the team can move on without him. We have a decent backup to Ronnie Brown now, an offensive coach, and a team that (gasp!) doesn't revolve entirely around Ricky anymore. I liked him as much as anyone else, but at this point he's expendable.
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Good post.

Now the Dolphins need to do what is best for the team and cut Ricky immediately. The drama associated with him is no longer worth the prospect of a seventh round pick in some future draft should he actually lay off of the drugs long enough to be reinstated. His cap number would be reduced to zero should we cut him, so far as I know. What do we have to gain by keeping him on our roster. I blame Wanny for a LOT of personnel blunders but this one really was beyond his control. Ricky performed brilliantly for two seasons, just long enough to cost us dearly in the draft, then completely imploded. It is time to write this disaster off and move on. The South Florida media coddles him because he is a non-stop story that has train-wreck potential each and every day. Once he is gone, we can focus on what is important...10,000 threads about whether we should have taken Quinn, whether Ginn's cleats will need heat sheilds from the space shuttle to keep from melting, and whether Cam & Mueller are the second coming of Shula or something more akin to Laurel & Hardy. The point is, Ricky's time in Miami needs to end today.
 
This is only a case of the people who know Ricky personally giving him their support. I think that's admirable, whether I agree with them or not.
 
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