For the first time in 8 long days, the veil of secrecy imposed by police when talking and investigating this Aaron Hernandez murder case has been lifted. For the first time in 8 long days of unsure confusion and conflicting reports, the truth has been reviled: Aaron Hernandez has been charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd and is now being investigated in a brutal triple shooting last July. He has been linked to a law suit in Miami and according to Sports Illustrated pointed a gun at someone in Providence. He has a long history of violence and what’s more; Hernandez is not legally allowed to carry a firearm. Whopie. So long story short, at this point in time Aaron Hernandez might very well be a psychopath. Just let that sink in.
Nevertheless, while Hernandez' gun violence problems do showcase a pattern: a slightly lesser but still negative pattern regarding the drafting habits of Bob Kraft himself.
Long regarded as the best owner in sports, Robert Kraft has long been the owner of the pats as after his inaugural 1994 season, Kraft picked his team up from the ashes and would eventually lead them to three Super Bowls in less than 5 years. Nevertheless while Kraft's style has paid its dividends it does come with a price tag and at times that price tag can verge on illegal activity. Now while I am not accusing this multi billionaire NFL owner of criminal actions what I am doing is reporting on the shady side of several players whom Hernandez has worked hard to draft.
Aqib Talib. July, 2008, after being drafted as a rookie, he and fellow rookie Cory Boyd seemingly got involved in an altercation and eventually began throwing punches at one another. 1 year later, Talib was brought back into court on terms of assaulting a taxi driver and then resisting prosecution yet even after 2 years after when Talib was charged on terms of shooting an assault rifle at his sister’s boyfriend, the Patriots payed big money to bring him into their acclaimed football team. And then there's Moss.
September 24th 2002, Miniapolis Minnisota, Randy Moss runs over a traffic officer simply for getting in his way. Yet perhaps a lasting aspect of Moss' troubled time in the NFL was his lasting struggles with Marijuana as he failed multiple drug test from college all the way up to his final days with the Patriots.
So with that in mind and now as more and more comes out about the violent ways of Aaron Hernandez you begin to wonder. Are the Patriots putting to much faith in skillful players? Yes. Is Robert Kraft's belief that he can change troubled players for the better naive, arrogant or even pathetic? Loosely: yes.
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