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does anybody has any news on this guy

i mistakenly posted that he signed with the eagles becauseof something i saw online about a link at nfl countdown, but it was not posted anywhere else..i am waiting to find ouut myself if we dont sign him i hope he goes to an nfc team we dont face in case he turns into the monster that people think he can

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I'd really like us to give him a shot because there's almost no risk but I think some are going a little overboard.

All that stuff he can do doesn't have a whole lot to do with actual football. He's got a lot of tools but he hasn't done much to show that he can play at an NFL level or has the desire to really work at it. Two good games against vastly inferior competition doesn't mean much.

There's a reason why he was undrafted and a reason why teams aren't fighting to the death to try and sign this guy.

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He ended up with the Saints.

http://www.neworleanssaints.com/playerbio.cfm?playerid=462

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=40459175

http://www.saintsrevolution.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11860

Talk of smoking grass and such on his myspace page should go over real well with Payton. 10 Vbucks says this guy doesn't make it out of minicamp....

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He ended up with the Saints.

http://www.neworleanssaints.com/playerbio.cfm?playerid=462

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=40459175

http://www.saintsrevolution.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11860

Talk of smoking grass and such on his myspace page should go over real well with Payton. 10 Vbucks says this guy doesn't make it out of minicamp....

Thanks for finding that...hope he pans out just to prove everyone wrong but his myspace page is enough to make you loook elsewhere if you are a gm...not a good look in the roger goodell era lol

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why anyone would have a myspace page unless they were a porn star is beyond me.

the only reason i do is to keep up with friends/family that are no longer close by. why people put such strange things on them though, is beyond me.

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Who I'd like to meet:

< I am a TRE SIDE nigga whats up to the whole TRE SIDE yall know who you are I am about to make some **** happen NFL bond you bitch ass niggas any nigga that think different SUCK A FAT DICK...

I am glad we let this moron go somewhere else...

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I am glad we let this moron go somewhere else...

i'm 100% positive the jets research player's myspace pages. could anyone see the herminator doing that?

"A my what page? my place? ya, i got a house with lia. got a pool too. i call it my place. oh you said my space? my space what? is that like outer space but inside me? i just had a physical, all those 6am workouts doing my space real good."

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Posted today at PFT:

WALTER THOMAS TREADS TOWARD TURD TERRITORY

Much has been written over the past week or so about Walter Thomas, a 370-pound defensive tackle who run the 40 in 4.9 seconds and do a backflip. (But not while running the 40 in 4.9 seasons.)

But much has also been ignored (or, more accurately, glossed over), especially in the post-Pacman era.

Thomas has a pending charge of conspiracy to commit robbery. In Mississippi, that's a felony. Per the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the indictment is still on file but no court date has been set.

The incident, which a league source tells us involved ski masks in the parking lot of a Sonic restaurant, got him kicked off of a junior college team for which he was playing because he had flunked out of Oklahoma State.

By the way, flunking out of Oklahoma State is pretty hard to do, given that Dexter Manley maintained academic eligibility there -- and couldn't read.

Then there's the apparent Walter Thomas MySpace page, which is troubling to the point of amusing. As a couple of readers have pointed out to us, one of the messages posted on the page reads as follows: "I heard you entered the draft. Is that right? Well its a good thing I got you to sign a whole bunch of sh-t so I can say 'yea, I used to get high with him and eat 5 cheeseburgers every wednesday!'"

So what the hell are the Saints thinking?

"It's a look-see," Saints coach Sean Payton told the T-P. "Normally, a player who's only played in two junior college football games would never come close to having an opportunity. To say he's got an uphill battle would be correct. Because of some of those characteristics, though, you take a look at him in a rookie camp and see where he's at."

As to the pending criminal charges, G.M. Mickey Loomis said: "We're aware of the incident and talked to a lot of people about it. What we understand is that it's going to get resolved. We're just going to give him a look and see for ourselves."

The message, then, is that character only counts when a team doesn't want a guy, and when the team is looking for a reason not to take him. If the team is intrigued, the team is more inclined to look the other way.

And that's the attitude that most teams seem to be applying. If the organization decides that they like the guy as a player, the team will talk its way around the character issues. If the organization decides that it doesn't like the guy as a player, then it's easy to point to the character issues as one of the reasons for taking a pass.

We predict that NFL franchises will continue to approach character issues in this manner until the Commish smacks one of them hard for harboring a guy whom they should have known had the potential to cause embarrassment to the team and the league by getting busted. Only then will teams attempt to make real assessments about whether a guy is going to be a problem, and not come up with lame-ass excuses like Sean Salisbury's explanation of safety Brandon Meriweather's history of head stomping and gun shooting. On Saturday, Salisbury called the Meriweather events "both one-time incidents."

Finally, the fact that the Saints signed Thomas while a felony charge was pending against him earns the franchise six points in the Turd Watch game.

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