Geno Smith's broken jaw just more stupid Jet tricks

[First Fag President]

The only good news out of the Jets locker room, if there is any
good news when a scrub throws a punch that breaks the jaw of the
starting quarterback, is this: At least the pro football players
are punching out each other now, and not their girlfriends.

But because this is the Jets, and because bad things seem to
happen to them no matter who is in charge, all the way back to
Joe Namath’s knees, this did feel like an awful lot of history
behind the punch that IK Enemkpali threw at Geno Smith, the shot
heard ’round the world in pro football on Tuesday. The only
thing that would have made it better is if Rex Ryan were still
the coach, because then everybody would have covered this like a
prison break.

Here is how the new Jets head coach, Todd Bowles, described what
happened between Enemkpali and Smith:

“Something very childish that sixth-graders could have talked
about and it had no reason to happen.”

It did happen, though, and it happened with a couple of Bowles’
players, neither one of them a pro football star and one of
them, the slugger Enemkpali, off the team and perhaps out of the
National Football League not long after he connected on Smith
with what Bowles described as a “sucker punch.” Never has the
expression seemed more appropriate.

You figured right away that the beef was about a woman or money.
It is reportedly about money. Enemkpali organized a charity
event in Texas. He invited Smith, who didn’t attend. So it could
turn out that Enemkpali, who played only 40 snaps for the Jets
last season, threw his career away over $600 for plane tickets
and limo fees that Smith wouldn’t pay back. And who knows what
happens to Smith if his replacement, Ryan Fitzpatrick, does
enough to prop up a fine, talented Jets defense in Smith’s
absence. Maybe Smith is out of a job, too.

So this turns out to be a season dominated by slow thinkers for
the Jets before the first preseason game is even played. Sheldon
Richardson, who was supposed to be a part of that fine defense,
gets himself suspended for four games after being found in
violation of the league’s drug policy, reportedly for smoking
marijuana.

Then Richardson gets picked up in Missouri for driving a car 143
miles an hour, with an automatic weapon in that car and, oh by
the way, a 12-year-old child and the smell of more weed in the
car.

Now this happens in the locker room. Enemkpali, out of Louisiana
Tech, where he once had pepper spray and a stun gun used on him
because of a bar fight with an off-duty cop, somehow manages to
hit his own quarterback harder than he hit anybody on the other
team for the Jets last season.

When news about all that made its way out of the locker room and
out into the world, before anybody even knew the details of why
it happened, this really did feel like a lot of punches Jets
fans have taken over recent years; felt like that famous Butt
Fumble from Mark Sanchez against the Patriots and Sanchez losing
a season because of a hit he took in the fourth quarter of a
preseason game playing behind second- and third-stringers; and
theTebow circus coming to town; and Brett Favre’s sexting; and
all the various slapstick with Rex. Rex was the one who was
supposed to be coaching the “Sons of Anarchy.”

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smith-broken-jaw-sutpid-jet-tricks-article-1.2322615