Quote:Seems pretty argumentative but i'll play along..... I honestly don't have any idea if he had to or not. It is all speculation on my behalf. I'll say this though; there are tons of professional athletes that have made millions more than Blackmon ever will and are currently bankrupt and eating at soup kitchens. Blackmon has proven to me that he has very poor decision making skills.

 

As a guy who is playing under a new rookie contract, signed a contract that stated he would have to pay back some of his guaranteed money if he got in trouble, ended up getting in trouble, got suspended indefinitely, got a possion charge while suspended indefinitely, and hasn't seen a game check since November 1, 2013 I'm going to take a wild guess that he needed to sell his house to make sure he had some money to not end up completely broke.

 

Maybe he decided to sell it on his own but Justin doesn't strike me as the guy who is quite knowledgeable of the current real estate market trends. He can't make the simple decision to do drugs at his home or get a buddy to drive him home after a night or heavy drinking so I highly doubt he would make the calculated assumption of knowing the CMA, DTI or FMV of real estate. 

 

I could be very wrong about this. I'm just stating my opinion with no inside knowledge. Nothing more nothing less. 

of course there are others who are broke and in financial trouble. there are also who have gone on to having more money than they possibly dreamed of...My point is you have no earthly idea if he HAD to sell his house or if he sold it because he chose to...Believe it or not, he could very well have said, "I'm not using this house right now so why should I pay taxes on it when I'm not even living in the same state? I can always buy another house any time I need to."  People read too much into things...I remember when Wayne still owned the team and put one of his houses up for sale and some on this board jumped on the "Jags are moving to LA" because the Weavers put their house up for sale...

 

It's been said countless times by Dave Caldwell, Gus, and Mr Khan in and out of the Jags webpage, that the NFL DOES NOT ALLOW the status of players suspended for drugs who are serving time in rehab or participating in treatment programs to become public...People can't seem to grasp what that means, although it's pretty easy to understand...

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