OT: Titus Young arrested for third time
Not good. He needs help.
are bad mmmkay.
but yet the Lions still drafted this dope with a 2nd round pick
Who's your favorite team?
Mayhew is clueless...and a bad GM, lets face it it is true.
Pacman and by most accounts Jeff Fisher is a good coach and evaluator of talent. You take risks and this is what happens. It should be interesting to see where the Cardinals are at in a few years time with Honey Badger.
The Lions will sign him again.
This could turn ugly, he needs help before he ends up getting himself killed or doing something that puts him in prison for a long time.
"Could"??? Isn't it already ugly? Arrested for third time in a week, this time for burglary, assaulting a police officer, and resisting arrest - I'm surprised they didn't taser him.
I'm pretty sure he means ugly like Titus killing someone or even getting himself killed.
All this is starting to make me wonder how many incidents were covered up at Boise?
Being stuck in Idaho may have helped him stay out of trouble.
Maybe, there's also a good chance they hide things well at Blue Mountain State I mean Boise State
I don't get it...
My theory regarding guys who implode when they get into the NFL after relatively incident-free college years is a combination of suddenly having a bunch of money in their pockets + the sudden freedom from the structure & discipline inherent with most college programs. Let's face it, the NFL coaches don't have the time or inclination to solve personal problems of their players. They assume they're adults and going to act like them. I'm not sure that theory totally explains Titus Young's crime spree and bizarre behavior. You'd have thought this would have shown up sometime at BSU and that the Lions would have checked it out. Wait, strike that last part /dumb
you make some good points, but some are just bad seeds from the start
I agree, and I also get a sense that college coaches focus on their stars more. At Detroit, Young was a decent player but not one you'd treat as a top dog. That can mess with guys if they were a stud at smaller schools for years.
Jim Schwartz doesn't seem like he has the personality of a mentor, either.... to correct a troubled young man.
This poor guy needs some help.
Come on, guys. He's just misunderstood.
The Yahoo! story (HERE) has a few quotes from his former high school coach who is (quite correctly) worried and said (also correctly) that football was simply out of the question and it has to be about getting his life in order. The sentence that Yahoo! ended their piece with expresses this very well:
"Young needs a lot of help (or some time away from general society), and he needs it very, very soon. Stories like this don't generally get better -- they tend to end in tragedy."
Is sadder? His 3rd arrest or a 2nd rd WR pick being caught on foot by the fuzz
/lock thread.
Go Lions!
Well it won't be long before he's back on the street and the next time we'll hear about him is that he's back in jail on murder charges, or that he got himself killed.
This kid needs some serious help, and I hope he can find it because if he doesn't I think he'll be dead or serving a lifetime jail sentence within 2-3 years.
The next time we see him might be on Locked Up-San Quentin on MSNBC.
Young definitely has problems upstairs. He may be one of those guys who ends up in prison for a long time, or dead. Let's hope he does not hurt any innocent people along the way.
He blew his NFL money already?
He is definitely making his momma proud on Mother's Day...
He seriously needs to get some help, this goes beyond sports. He is going to end up hurting someone else, in jail or worse. I am praying that he finds the support he needs to get his life back on track. He has all the talent to make a lot of money, but he is a head case
Amazing the Lions were actually able to keep this guy relatively trouble free while he was a member of the team.
I'm sure some bleeding hearts out there will neg me, but lock this clown up for life. 3 strikes you're out. bye bye drain on society.
It's not bleeding hearts so much as it's a dumbass policy. It's not like dude is running guns and drugs for the cartels.
If he spends a long time in prison he'll be a drain on society that way, too. Free room and board adds up.
Glad you're not a policy maker.
yes, it's awful of me to expect people to not get arrested 3 times in a week. this guy is scum, will always be scum, and shouldnt be walking the streets. has his crimes been real serious? no, but as most in law enforcement will tell you this is a pattern to much worse. staying out of trouble isnt hard, if you cant stay out of trouble then you should not be free to commit crime after crime. cali has it right, 3 felonies you get life.
Hey, that's an insult to people with mental illnesses /s
Titus is going to tell all his homies in jail he is still better than CJ
At doing illegal things and getting arrested he sure is better then CJ lmao sorry had too lol
Shades of Boubacar Cissoko.
Just what I was thinking.
but I haven't seen any confirming details anywhere.
Don't give him the excuse of mental illness. It's a guy who always thought he deserved everything and when people would not give it to him he would just take it, even if he was not supposed to be there. See lining up in the wrong spot. It's not a mental illness, it's spoiled and now he is going to learn a very hard life lesson. This time he won't just be told to go home.
I'm pretty sure he does have mental issues. That doesn't justify anything, but it doesn't make it any less true as to it being the reason why he does these inexplicable things.
Not trying to be a jerk, I am seriously asking. People do similar things all the time, they just usually are not covered by ESPN. He is not mentally ill, he is immature and thinks the world owes him. Having coached, I see this attitude all to often. Some we can help teach, but some just don't get it. But it certainly is not mental illness.
I'm almost certain if you dig deep enough that you will find he is actually diasgnosed with a mental illness in which he takes pills for. (which surprisingly he has been know to not take them from time to time- s/) Now, no, I do not habe any proof to support me so i'm not claiming to be right for sure but I was listening to 97.1 the ticket and somebody on there said he does.
How else are you going to make logical sense out of anything that he does? And this is just stuff that we're HEARING about. Who knows what goes on in his life that doesn't get reported/ seen by the media.
What gave it away?
Let's hope he gets help before winds up the subject of an ESPN 30 for 30 story.
Late
Go study your series 7 kid
If the arrests don't deter nfl teams, I'm sure the fact that police officers chased and caught him on foot will (without the need for a taser). Maybe he just has football speed.
Sometimes a criminal is just that....
The biggest problem with society today, is everyone makes excuses for bad behavior.