Maurice Clarett

[Astonishment]

muma always says...

...stupid is as Maurice Clarett does.

[BallHawk]

OH OH I got one

maybe he was on his way to cinci to have a tryout with the bengals

zing!!!!!!!!!!

That's rich.

[Lare]

OH OH I got one

maybe he was on his way to cinci to have a tryout with the bengals

zing!!!!!!!!!!

Don't laugh, they may still sign him.

[Scott Campbell]

Clarrett made me feel better about Shermy taking BJ in the 3rd. But not much better.

[Rastak]

OH OH I got one

maybe he was on his way to cinci to have a tryout with the bengals

zing!!!!!!!!!!

That's rich.

That's outstanding! I like PFT.com saying the Marvin Lewis handed out "Innocent until proven guilty" t shirts to the team....LOL

[gbgary]

Re: Maurice Clarett

BUSTED WITH "ARSENAL OF WEAPONS"

what a wheels-off freak he's turned out to be.

[Guiness]

What was his contract again? Did he really get no signing bonus at all?

Can you imagine the conversation the RB coach and Shanahan must've had about the 3rd day of TC

-Uh, Mike, I think you better come over here and have a look at this. It's that Clarett kid. I think we better get him out of here.

When was the last time someone drafted that high didn't even make it through camp? D. Underwood made it to the season, didn't he?

[Rastak]

What was his contract again? Did he really get no signing bonus at all?

Can you imagine the conversation the RB coach and Shanahan must've had about the 3rd day of TC

-Uh, Mike, I think you better come over here and have a look at this. It's that Clarett kid. I think we better get him out of here.

When was the last time someone drafted that high didn't even make it through camp? D. Underwood made it to the season, didn't he?

Underwood made it through one freaking practice. He practiced showered and drove away. When the Vikings found him I don't know how coherent he was but they were lucky to get their signing bonus back.

[woodbuck27]

Maurice Clarett was a major story on the Sporting News up here - video police statements , his lawyer's statement the whole nine yards. He wasn't driving a white bronco.

Maurice Clarett looked really stressed out.

His lawyer is claiming, that he needed the guns against death threats from several people that will soon be identified. Four guns including an assault rifle were surprisingly discovered in his vehicle.

The police were fortunate, as he didn't roll over when they finally stopped him, after an about - 4 mile chase. He resisted several officers trying to cuff him and further still not even going to the ground when hit with a tazar gun. It took a few shots of mace to seduce him.

Wondering what his drug of choice was that night? He looked very wild.

He will tame down behind bars, because thats where he went of course and he'll be there for a very long time. Just one of the weapons charges carries up to a 20 year sentence.

Wow! How did it get that bad?

Oh ! The reporter said:

People are beginning to wonder if Maurice Clarett is psychologically disturbed? Dear Gaud.

[woodbuck27]

POSTED 11:47 a.m. EDT, August 10, 2006 (Fr. PFT)

MO-CLO "GET OUT OF JAIL" CARD COSTS $6.1 MILLION

If former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett had played a full four seasons in college, he might have been cashing a multi-million-dollar check right now.

Instead, it'll take a multi-million-dollar payment to make him a free man.

On Thursday, a judge set Clarett's bond on weapons charges at $5 million. On Wednesday, Clarett's bail as to unrelated charges of armed robbery was raised to $1.1 million.

"We feel he's a threat to the community," assistant Franklin County prosecutor Chris Brown said of Clarett, who was busted with multiple loaded guns and a hatchet, while wearing a bulletproof vest.

Clarett's attorney disagrees, presumably with a straight face. "We're very confident that there was no intent to harm anyone," said Nick Mango. (Surely, that isn't the dude's real name.)



(Mo-Clo's lawyer tries to put a spell on the judge.)

[woodbuck27]

POSTED 9:11 a.m. EDT, August 10, 2006 (Fr. PFT)

MO-CLO CRACKS UP



There's a great item this morning on ESPN.com from Tom Friend regarding the unraveling of Maurice Clarett's football career and, by all appearances, his life.

Clarett was busted Wednesday morning in an SUV with loaded guns, a hatchet, and an open bottle of vodka. He eluded police, smashed into a cruiser, was wearing a bulletproof vest, and was Tasered and maced.

Friend writes that he received (** a bizarre phone call from Clarett) hours before the incident. More compelling, in our view, is Friend's chronicle of Clarett's pre-draft training and his experiences with the Broncos in 2005.

After reading the full article, we're now officially amazed that the Broncos burned a third-round pick on Clarett, given the information that surely was available with only a modest investment of time and/or effort. In late 2004, Clarett was living large (figuratively and, at 256 pounds, literally) in L.A. and then in Phoenix. His training routine was a joke. Friend reports that Clarett decided to pursue steroids to help get him into shape (although it's unclear whether Clarett ever used them).

Friend also reports on rumors that we'd heard last year regarding Clarett's brief time with the Broncos, which rumors we coincidentally mentioned on a PFT PodCast recorded from late Wednesday into early Thursday morning.

Specifically, we'd heard that Clarett consistently had been swigging Grey Goose from a water bottle in the team's facility. We wouldn't use it at the time without someone going on the record given the potentially explosive nature of the revelation, which would have been made at a time when Clarett had yet to implode. (Eventually, Jason Cole -- then of the Miami Herald -- reported that Clarett had been found in the training room with alcohol.)

As Friend reports: "He would take that water bottle everywhere, including the Bronco weight room, and the team started getting suspicious when, before minicamp practices, he'd grab the bottle and say, 'I gotta get my Goose on.' It wasn't a joke; the Bronco players were convinced he was chugging Grey Goose."

We'd even heard that quote -- "I gotta get my Goose on."

Friend also reports on other facts from Clarett's cup of Irish coffee with the Broncos, including allegations of inappropriate sexual statements made at a hotel (we'd heard that one, too) and an effort to get the team's trainer fired (we hadn't heard that one).

At the time, we also heard that a veteran running back on the team had approached Clarett and offered to help him get acclimated to the NFL, and Clarett basically told him to f--k off.

The one issue that Friend's otherwise excellent piece doesn't address specifically is Clarett's objective in driving on Interstate 70 at 3:00 a.m. with loaded guns and a bulletproof vest. Friend suggests that the rap industry folks who had bankrolled Mo-Clo's 2004-05 West Coast tour might have been coming after him for money. But there are published reports that Clarett's arrest ( *** came near the home of a witness ) scheduled to testify against him next week in a trial resulting from charges that he robbed a guy at gunpoint on New Year's Day.

Also, Clarett's bond on the new charges has been raised to $1.1 million. And that means he won't be "getting his Goose on" anytime soon.

Then again, maybe he will. But, in prison, that phrase has a slightly different meaning.

** Link:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?id=2545078

*** Link:

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=55429

[woodbuck27]

HAWK REFLECTS ON COLLEGE TEAMMATE'S TROUBLES

By CHRIS JENKINS
Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. - A.J. Hawk and Maurice Clarett were two freshmen brimming with talent when they arrived at Ohio State in 2002. A few months later, they were national champions. Today, Hawk is on his way to becoming the next big star for the Green Bay Packers. Clarett is in jail. After hearing reports of a police chase, loaded guns and pepper spray, Hawk can only shake his head at the way a former teammate squandered his talent. After watching Clarett dominate college football for the Buckeyes, could Hawk ever have imagined that things would turn out like this?

"No," Hawk said.

"Anyone that had been there his freshman year in that stadium, I mean, he was everything. To everybody. From game one. People chanted his name the whole time, and he had a great year."

Clarett was the toast of college football after scoring a touchdown in the second overtime of the Fiesta Bowl against Miami to clinch the 2002 national championship for Ohio State. Since then, his life has become a mess.

"He was a great running back - great vision, size, speed, everything," Hawk said.

"It's unfortunate when something like that happens to someone, that many instances that he had off the field that caused all these problems for him."

Clarett was arrested early Wednesday morning after police tried to pull him over for driving erratically. Police say they eventually stopped Clarett's SUV by spiking his tires, then tried to subdue him with a stun gun - but it didn't work because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, so they used pepper spray. He allegedly had four loaded guns in the SUV. Clarett was charged with carrying a concealed weapon on Thursday, and bond was set at $5 million.