Last year comedian Kevin Hart visited the Florida State football team and before leaving imparted some advice to quarterback Jameis Winston. “You need to stop doing dumb s—t.”
Winston, seemingly able to overcome every strike against him, was drafted No. 1 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last Thursday, in spite of being draped in a Count Dracula cape of red flags.
To celebrate his lofty draft position, Winston put this photo out on Instagram.
No, Kevin Hart, Jameis Winston has not stopped doing dumb s—t. He’s just getting started and now, after signing his four-year, $25.35 million contract Friday, he’s got plenty of money to make it just as stupid as possible.
One of Winston’s many college foibles was getting busted for shoplifting crab legs. Winston explained himself for that a few weeks ago, basically falling on his sword to keep Florida State from getting in trouble because he had a “hook up” at Publix, supplying him with free food. I believe him.
The rape allegation is tougher to even talk about, but I will say this: The man’s been exonerated twice, once by the State of Florida and the second time by Florida State University. Winston is being sued by his accuser in civil court, so for now at least, that will just have to speak for itself.
The Bucs knew all this going in, so they obviously felt like Winston’s past misdeeds, or accusations of misdeeds, are behind him. He’s a grown man ready to be a professional. That’s why seeing that photo of Winston smiling with a plate full of crab legs had to make Tampa Bay head coach Lovie Smith slam his computer monitor to the ground. The Buccaneers asked Winston to take the photo down and he did.
As with everything involving Winston, it didn’t end there. There’s always an excuse waiting around the corner for every stupid thing he does and former Bucs quarterback Shaun King stepped in to save the day Friday.
If people only knew how STUPID they sound killing this kid over that picture smdh
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015
I was seated at the table right next to jameis at the mike alstott charity auction, when captain keith asked jameis to help him auction off
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015
This huge king crab he had flown in for the event. Captain keith is from the deadliest catch show. I wasnt sure how jameis was gonna
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015
Handle the request, but it didnt faze the young man at all he simply said ok sure, we r here to help the alstott foundation right.
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015
That same captain keith in a gesture of thanks sent jameis and his family 25lbs of king crabs legs for his draft event last night.
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015
Thats the backstory behind last nights picture for those of you who need to seriously have some self evaluation done
— shaun king (@realshaunking) May 1, 2015
The problem with that explanation is, I don’t give a damn how he got the crab legs. Nobody has to tell me Jameis Winston loves crab legs. That’s been made abundantly clear. He can’t get enough of them. Winston goes to sleep at night counting succulent crab legs daintily hopping over streams of melted butter while chewing on his pillow. The fact that somebody sent him crab legs is not news to me, nor does it matter. If he’s Rookie of the Year, he’ll be the new spokesman for Campbell’s New Chunky Soup Crab Bisque.
Jameis Winston’s love for cooked and buttered crustaceans is not up for debate. We get it.
What no one should be able to get is why Winston, after everything that’s happened, after everything he’s been accused of, guilty or not, would put this photo up mocking all of that.
This isn’t the first time Winston failed at intentional comedy. He was suspended for half a game last year for jumping on a lunch table and screaming “F—k her right in the p—y!” because Florida State evidentially offers Youtube surfing as a credit course.
Jameis Winston can not be funny on purpose, but his eventual Armageddon asteroid-sized flame out in Tampa Bay is certainly going to be good for a laugh.
Zac Stacy trade will yield dividends for the Jets
When the St. Louis Rams drafted Todd Gurley out of Georgia with the No. 10 pick, back-up running back Zac Stacy saw the writing on the wall.
Stacy was a fifth-round pick in 2013 and a good one, nearly rushing for 1,000 yards his rookie season before getting beaten out by Tre Mason a month into last season. Stacy’s days with the Rams were numbered anyway, as a team would have tried to trade for him during camp or even during the season, but the Gurley move made Stacy and his agent go ahead and force a move now.
https://twitter.com/ZSTACY_/status/594660177942597632
With the trade, the Jets get a starting-caliber NFL back for a seventh round pick, an easy call to make. Stacy joins a crowded backfield of Chris Ivory, Stevan Ridley, Bilal Powell and the guy who he beat out to be the Rams starter in 2013, Daryl Richardson. Stacy will beat all these running backs out too. It’s no secret why new Jets head coach Todd Bowles wanted to make the move. He’s coached against Stacy before.
