{"id":78604,"date":"2015-11-03T21:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T05:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78604"},"modified":"2015-11-03T21:12:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T05:12:46","slug":"joseph-randle-another-talented-black-man-throwing-it-all-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78604","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Randle &#8211; Another Talented Black Man Throwing It All Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have we seen this type of self-destruction?<\/p>\n<p>He should be the leading runner for the Dallas Cowboys, earning millions of dollars a year, but he&#8217;s too much of an idiot to hold down that job. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/columnists\/kevin-sherrington\/20151103-sherrington-how-did-a-once-promising-career-go-so-bad-so-fast-for-ex-cowboys-rb-joseph-randle.ece\">REPORT<\/a>: Still, over the last 12 months, he was arrested for shoplifting cologne and underwear, then again four months later on marijuana and domestic violence charges. <\/p>\n<p>Just last week &#8212; a turbulent one at that as he suddenly disappeared from the Cowboys&#8217; plans &#8212; he called the cops to his place, thinking his girlfriend might be in trouble. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, that was just his record with the authorities. After the shoplifting arrest, a police video caught him replying to a possible suspension with the bon mot, &#8220;Dez didn&#8217;t miss no games for slapping his mama.&#8221; Also asked a female jail employee for a $100 massage. On top of that embarrassment, he got into it with Dez Bryant at practice over the line about Dez&#8217;s mother, only to be silenced by Jason Witten. <\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: With Randle, it was always something, little of it any good. <\/p>\n<p>The theft charge was dismissed and authorities decided not to pursue the domestic violence allegations, but Randle wasn&#8217;t so lucky with the NFL, which is about to fine or even suspend him. <\/p>\n<p>Only the Cowboys released him first, not 48 hours after Jerry Jones said he was concerned about Randle&#8217;s mental health. <\/p>\n<p>If Randle does, indeed, have some sort of mental illness, let&#8217;s hope first and foremost he gets the help he needs. Life won&#8217;t get any easier now that he&#8217;s out of the NFL, which is where he&#8217;s likely to remain with a suspension hanging over him. Unlike his former teammate, Greg Hardy, he can&#8217;t be assured someone else will take a chance on him. He doesn&#8217;t have the numbers to make him worth the risk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have we seen this type of self-destruction? He should be the leading runner for the Dallas Cowboys, earning millions of dollars a year, but he&#8217;s too much of an idiot to hold down that job. REPORT: Still, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78604\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-dallas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78605,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78604\/revisions\/78605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}