Ricky Williams, SMH........


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Fiyah

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I think this dude needs some serious help......

Williams rejects deal that would have allowed him back in 2005

By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer
December 2, 2004
MIAMI (AP) -- Ricky Williams rejected a deal that would have allowed him to serve a four-game drug suspension this season and return to the NFL next year.

``Ricky indicated to me that he is no longer interested in resuming his career at this time,'' Williams' lawyer, David Cornwell, said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Thursday.

The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner needed to let the league know by Thursday so he could be moved from the retired list to the suspended list by the deadline. He would have served the suspension for the Miami Dolphins' final four games, starting Dec. 12 at Denver.


``David Cornwell informed our office that Ricky Williams has declined to accept the terms of his reinstatement,'' NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.

Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene wouldn't comment, saying the matter is between Williams and the NFL.

Williams, 27, stunned his team by retiring shortly before Miami opened training camp in July. The Dolphins filed a lawsuit in federal court against the running back, seeking the $8.6 million an arbitrator ruled he owes the team for breaching his contract. Williams is fighting the decision.

He is now enrolled in a 17-month course at the California College of Ayurveda in Grass Valley, Calif., studying holistic medicine.

The talks to allow Williams back into the league involved a promise to return to the field next season and to re-enter the NFL drug program immediately, including being tested on a regular basis.

``The NFL sought assurances that Ricky is indeed committed to playing,'' Cornwell said.

Williams gave up the $5 million he would have earned this season, which would have been his sixth in the NFL, amid reports he faced suspension for substance abuse.

He rushed for 3,225 yards in two seasons with the Dolphins, including a league-leading 1,853 yards in 2002. Miami acquired him from New Orleans after the 2001 season.

But without Williams, the Dolphins have gone into a tailspin. They're 2-9 and will finish with a losing record for the first time since 1988.

Williams has social-anxiety disorder and was a spokesman for an anti-depressant. He said marijuana helped him after he stopped using the anti-depressant.


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He still has to pay the Dolphins back 8+ million dollars for his signing bonus. He could have finished the season on suspension for 4 games and returned next season and only had to give back the money for the games he missed this season. If he trys to come back next season he will still have to sit out those 4 games, why not sit them out this year since he wasn't going to play anyway and start fresh next year.

SMH.......
 
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Williams has social-anxiety disorder and was a spokesman for an anti-depressant. He said marijuana helped him after he stopped using the anti-depressant.
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Olde Hornet said:
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He said marijuana helped him after he stopped using the anti-depressant.
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Yeah, it helped him lose his ********* mind.......
 
Do your thang Rick.

I guess he has a plan work out........................I guess.

But honestly I think he has some mental instabilities he needs to work out. Maybe the weed kept him from snapping.

I've "HEARD" that chronic makes you real laid back and chill.......and hungry.
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Heard about it my arse. You know you smoke it chump. :devil2: Want some KFC? :emlaugh:

If being suspended for 4 games, and enrolling into the NFL Drug Treatment Program is all he has to do, then aside from his SAD, something is seriously wrong with him.

On another note though, I read that the government is actually considering, or in the process of letting people that are Bi-polar, or clinically depressed get prescription marijuana. So maybe Ricky is just waiting until it passes legislation. Or he's waiting until he finishes his holistic medicine course, and really learn how to beat the marijuana testing. You can do some schit with holistic medicine, and with it being all natural, Ricky might be on to something.

In any case quitting a 5 million dollar per year job, plus another 3-5 million in endorsements is str8 crazy to give up for weed. Being a former weed smoker myself, I know it's some good stuff, but to give up that kind of bread just to smoke it........... :shame: ........?????

P-Funk All-Stars send help.

NICE
 
If he decides to come back.......

An NFL GM would have to be as fugged up in the head as Ricky to take a chance on that dude.
 
PNeck019 said:
If he decides to come back.......

An NFL GM would have to be as fugged up in the head as Ricky to take a chance on that dude.
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it'll happen - he will be picked up
 
Obviously, the brother does not want to play football any no-longer. He is tired of everybody included people on this board and his agent telling what he should do because they want him to play so the can gain some benefit whether it is financial or the pleasure of viewing him play.
 
Jafus (Thinker) said:
Obviously, the brother does not want to play football any no-longer. He is tired of everybody included people on this board and his agent telling what he should do because they want him to play so the can gain some benefit whether it is financial or the pleasure of viewing him play.
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co-sign

Run Ricky run.
 
Jafus, if he is tired then he shouldn't have petitioned to get back into the NFL. Honestly, I don't think the brother knows what he wants to do. I think he wakes up some mornings wishing he was still playing, and then there are the days I think he truly does not want to play anymore.

It would be best for him, and the NFL if he just keeps his mouth shut, until he really knows what he wants to do. If the people that are close to him keep urging him to play, whether it be lawyers, agents, family, are whomever, he should just tell them he's done with it, and leave it at that.

It makes no sense (at least in my mind), to keep opening a door for something you honestly don't want do, all it does is keep the negativity coming at you. I look at Barry Sanders, Jim Brown, and Robert Smith, they all walked away similiar to the way Ricky did, and they left it at that. Sure he's his own man, but at the same token make a decision, and leave it that.

NICE
 
Unless there's a bigger picture that Ricky knows about, this guy needs some serious help.
 
D-Nice,

Jafus, if he is tired then he shouldn't have petitioned to get back into the NFL. Honestly, I don't think the brother knows what he wants to do. I think he wakes up some mornings wishing he was still playing, and then there are the days I think he truly does not want to play anymore.
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If you followed the story. The facts actually remains that Ricky did not petition to get back into the NFL. His agent did the paper work without his consent, thinking that once he cleared all the hurdles, that his agent would get him to reconsider and do what made his agent happy by making money and not what makes Ricky, happy.

Again, like many people on this page. They want Ricky to play because they believe should play. It does have anything to do what Ricky would like to do. Which again is obvious that no-longer want to play football.
 
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