Quote:It is also too bad he wasn't around long enough to get a best friend on the team, or a committed best friend from home to keep the dealers and users away. "Personal Demons" gets used too much, its the PC term, but he is young and apparently loves to get high and he may be the type that has to get kicked out of the NFL and lose EVERYTHING before rehab takes.

 

I have known plenty of young alcoholics, every single one of them were Cocaine addicts first, the alcohol was used to bring them down so they could do more blow. It's always reported as Alcohol rehab by any spokesman or PR speaker, but I would be surprised if he wasn't doing the regular routine of coke and JD.

 

Sometimes it takes losing absolutely everything before the addict realizes what the world already knows.

It's a shame, but the team is taking the right approach, if he comes back great, but nobody is holding their breath.

If this is the first time in rehab, assuming he is in a rehab facility, to me that is not a good sign his head is in the right place. If this is a serious effort, as soon as the 2nd suspension was in effect he should have been inpatient rehab.

 

Waiting a year to go in detox and rehab has got to be a red flag, and an indicator he hasn't hit rock bottom yet, at least in Blackmon's mixed up brain. His chance for success and a new life are drastically reduced if getting suspended indefinitely did not wake him up immediately and permanently and admit his problem then and there.

He should have been in and out of rehab in-patient long ago, doing followups now, and getting into football shape.