(01-05-2022, 08:53 AM)RicoTx Wrote:

(01-05-2022, 07:18 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I never fully understood why he stopped playing. Whether it was alcoholism, lost desire to play or some other factor. It all still seems like a mysterious episode that never achieved full closure with me. He just…disappeared.

Rumor was he was going to be suspended if he played.  Probably wasn't ever verified since he retired, but that was the rumor that was running rampant...and probably true.

I don't know if he 'disappeared'.  Wasn't it pretty shortly after he retired that he go busted on the north side with an enormous amount of coke?

I never heard about the coke. The last story I recollect of him in Jacksonville was when he put his truck into the ditch somewhere after he had been absent from the team. He wasn't under the influence.

But still, it adds to the mystery of why a guy of his talent with the potential to earn some life changing money didn't just serve out the suspension and then return to playing. Instead, he just gave up.

Edit: We're talking about different people. I was alluding to James Justin Blackmon.

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