Colt Lyerla in Packer Rookie Orientation

[Willard]

What are you talking about? Character is still very important to the Packers and its the reason we are able to take a chance on a kid like Lyerla with our strong locker room. Its also not BS when your team rarely has to worry about off the field drama.

I'll agree with you that MM, TT, Murphy and Harlan before him believe in bringing in high character players. They probably understand the pride the community has for its team (unsurpassed in theleague) and don't want to bring embarrassment to the fan base. But what this guy did is hard to understand or overlook for me. And I am not talking about the blow. There is no deeper pain in the human condition than losing a child. Nothing compares. And for this punk to piss all over those parents in CT makes methink there is something seriously wrong with him. Several other teams must feel the same way. The Pack decided to give him a chance. He will be surrounded by potential role models and maybe he turns it all around with the help of those other packer people. My problem is I don't give 2 shits if this punk doesn't make it especially if he never acknowledges what he has said and why he decided to be such an asshole.

Anyway, not trying to be a downer. I am usually not very serious when I post but this story struck a nerve.

[bobblehead]

If it was one Tweet (or say four in a row) I would agree. But he spent an hour arguing with someone on his feed and was also Retweeting those who supported him. That's not just a brain fart or Tweet gone wrong.

He wanted* you to seriously consider that the Sandy Hook shooting was arranged by the Federal Government and that the parents of the dead children are lying in support.

http://dailyemerald.com/2013/03/21/uo-football-player-colt-lyerla-tweets-controversial-conspiracy-theory-about-sandy-hook-shooting/

His stay with the Packers, if there is one, won't end well.

* EDIT: changed to past tense. Perhaps he has changed his mind.

So dumb people can't be great football players? Carl Everett once disputed that man landed on the moon and he played 13 years and hit 200HR. I think some kid buying into a conspiracy theory is forgivable. In a good light it shows that he engages in outside the box thinking.

edit: I almost forgot...Everett didn't believe dinosaurs ever walked the earth either.

[bobblehead]

After watching him blast thru tacklers if he were black and had dreads he would resemble Lacy!

So what you are saying is that he doesn't resemble lacy in the least other than ability to break tackles.

[bobblehead]

Our High School cheerleaders used to chant: "Ooo sah sah sah, Ooo sah sah sah, Hit 'em in the head with a big kielbasa."

YOu went to high school in Pulaski?

[Joemailman]

Serious question: Does taking cocaine contribute to people having irrational and/or paranoid thoughts that mind end up on Twitter? If so, is there a chance he turns things around if he stays off the cocaine?

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the one problem i have with bringing the guy in, and it has nothing to do with money. i see some folks saying"well we aren't paying him anything so there's no loss if he acts up and we have to cut him".

the problem i have is that if/when he goes full on aaron hernandez, it will most likely be in the city of green bay, and the headlines around the country will read "green bay packer colt lyerla has (insert hi-anus crime/act)"

[red]

Serious question: Does taking cocaine contribute to people having irrational and/or paranoid thoughts that mind end up on Twitter? If so, is there a chance he turns things around if he stays off the cocaine?

thats a big IF

[Mazzin]

The stuff he said about the parents being "fakes" is certainly over the line. Although on the other hand there are a TON of questions surrounding the events of the shooting, and I would certainly not put it past our government to do something like this to get greater gun control in the country. I mean look at 9/11 its SUPER obvious that it wasn't terrorist, way to may questions, like why would building 7 COLLAPSE in on itself when it didn't even get hit. The government will do some fucked up stuff to have greater control of its people...So I get WHAT he is saying, but have no clue why you would put it like that. Either way the kid looks like a beast on the field, I'm quite smitten over us signing him. Hell, I say we give him cocaine on game day, how do you think he was so hard to tackle

[QBME]

[QUOTE=Joemailman;786686]Serious question: Does taking cocaine contribute to people having irrational and/or paranoid thoughts that mind end up on Twitter? If so, is there a chance he turns things around if he stays off the cocaine?[/QUOTE

Absolutely. Cocaine is not physically addicting. It's an alkaloide, not an opiate. It's strictly a psychosis drug, leading to eurohia, eventually leading to paranoia. Give him an environment of tough love and he will excell.

He will turn out to be one of TTs brilliant moves.

[pbmax]

So dumb people can't be great football players? Carl Everett once disputed that man landed on the moon and he played 13 years and hit 200HR. I think some kid buying into a conspiracy theory is forgivable. In a good light it shows that he engages in outside the box thinking.

edit: I almost forgot...Everett didn't believe dinosaurs ever walked the earth either.

Not at all. But dumb players with drug issues who leave the team for unexplained reasons after making a public spectacle of themselves don't tend to last very long.

[pbmax]

[pittstang5]

This is going to be interesting. Classic, "Is the reward worth the risk."

At this point, we just don't know where this kid's head is. Is he a new man? Is he just bullshitting? Who the fuck knows? However, I will say this, he's got one hell of an agent for TT to even think about bringing his ass in here for a tryout.

However, you can't bullshit a bullshitter. If he's signed, IMO, it's a not a question of "IF" this kid will fuck up, but "WHEN" this kid fuck up. The odds are not in his favor. If he's turned it around, I'll be happy I'm wrong. The kids got too much talent to just piss it away.

[Rutnstrut]

If it was one Tweet (or say four in a row) I would agree. But he spent an hour arguing with someone on his feed and was also Retweeting those who supported him. That's not just a brain fart or Tweet gone wrong.

He wanted* you to seriously consider that the Sandy Hook shooting was arranged by the Federal Government and that the parents of the dead children are lying in support.

http://dailyemerald.com/2013/03/21/uo-football-player-colt-lyerla-tweets-controversial-conspiracy-theory-about-sandy-hook-shooting/

His stay with the Packers, if there is one, won't end well.

* EDIT: changed to past tense. Perhaps he has changed his mind.

Why do you say it won't end well? All the cookie cutter "perfect" behavior players don't always end well either. Aren't you one that always touts trust in TT and stubby, they know more than we do?

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Why do you say it won't end well? All the cookie cutter "perfect" behavior players don't always end well either. Aren't you one that always touts trust in TT and stubby, they know more than we do?

he didn't have 1 or 2 little incidents that got him booted from the team which then forced him to look at himself in the mirror

he's had a string of incidents then quit the team after they disciplined him for some of those incidents. then insted of using that as a wake up (even though he quit), he got busted for having coke. then instead of saying "ok, my career is in jeopardy, i need to clean things up", he takes to twitter and says some of the most insensitive things since hitler was quoted as saying that jews put off a nice glow and aroma

there is something really not right with the kid, and he acts like he's entitled to the world. imo, it is a question of when not if with him

just gotta hope he doesn't take out a whole neighborhood in green bay when he snaps and climbs up a clock tower

[mraynrand]

he didn't have 1 or 2 little incidents that got him booted from the team which then forced him to look at himself in the mirror

he's had a string of incidents then quit the team after they disciplined him for some of those incidents. then insted of using that as a wake up (even though he quit), he got busted for having coke. then instead of saying "ok, my career is in jeopardy, i need to clean things up", he takes to twitter and says some of the most insensitive things since hitler was quoted as saying that jews put off a nice glow and aroma

there is something really not right with the kid, and he acts like he's entitled to the world. imo, it is a question of when not if with him

just gotta hope he doesn't take out a whole neighborhood in green bay when he snaps and climbs up a clock tower

I think Hitler was more insensitive.