This doesn’t sound like a particularly good look for Georgia, either.
“There was a battle in our building on whether we were going to take DeAndre or not,” a source privy to the Giants’ draft thinking told The Post, “because the story was he had to have his a– kicked every day to work hard at Georgia — to even go to practice. We knew that and we still drafted him, and from Day 1 it was like taking a guy in the first round that you had to teach nearly everything to.”
On the other hand, even with that, Kirby Smart still managed to kick DeAndre Baker’s ass all the way to a Thorpe Award. Coaching!
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I really struggle to wrap my head around why a team would draft a guy like that in the first round. I guess there must be stories of similar types who matured after being drafted.
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I asked Chip and Seth on twitter if either of them heard a whiff of this coming out of B-M re: Baker, but couldn’t write about it because they couldn’t get it verified. They haven’t answered, but I have to wonder.
If they didn’t hear anything about Baker, that means Kirby has shit on lockdown inside B-M more than any of us have ever realized. Especially considering Baker willingly came back for his Senior year when he was already a low first round or high second round pick after the 2017 season.
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It appears the Giants have already mastered the art of social distancing.
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If true it’s crazy that they were able to keep his inclinations under wraps and get his rear in the weight room and practice field every day. Many a Dawg has run afoul of the ACC police for innocuous stuff.
I hope the story turns out to be completely different than what we know but it doesn’t sound good.
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Apparently both he and Dunbar have sworn affidavits and video evidence showing they did nothing illegal, that their lawyers handed over to the police.
I’m gonna guess if those are true and they are never charged, they both will sue the fuck out of this police department and county for plastering their warrants all over twitter like a bunch of assholes.
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Looks like the victims accepted the bribe. Probably return the valuables plus an extra 10K. Good lawyers can really come in handy.
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Or they actually never did anything in the first place. 🤷🏻♂️
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Possible, but I wouldn’t bet any money on it.
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“Kirby Smart still managed to kick DeAndre Baker’s ass all the way to a Thorpe Award. Coaching!”
But think what MuLLLen could have done with him!
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CYA talj
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Loved Baker as a Dawg….but NFL bust & now NFL thug!
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Sounds like the “witnesses” are recanting their story.
Remember folks, we have a little thing called Innocent before PROVEN guilty for a good reason.
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I find it hard to believe D. Bake guilty of the cgarge considering that I don’t recall him getting into any trouble while he was at UGA. I hope he didn’t do it but if he did, he has qualified himself for being the biggest dummy of the century.
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*charge
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Quinton Dunbar is a Gator, and you know how they are, so I’m gonna have to assume the whole thing was his idea.
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I wish just Tua had thrown at Baker….
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Having trouble staying awake in meetings? WTF! In the military, there was a simple solution for that. Anyone caught nodding off during a briefing had to stand up for the remainder of the meeting. That will keep your ass awake. I speak from personal experience.
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Really? Stand-up? That must be an Air Force or Navy or Army thing.
In the Marine Corps, if you began nodding-off, the person behind you was charged with slapping you upside the back of your head. LOL.
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Guilty as charged – Army. We did have some guys who were more uhm… creative in their punishments. None of which you could get away with outside the military. I figure simply standing up would work and you could get away with it in today’s kinder, gentler world.
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Had an instructor in flight school that would throw a desk from the front of the classroom to the back – got you attention. Had another that would set fire to any little corner of any paper protruding from under your head / arm – that worked too.
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Sounds like Baker got his money then kicked his drive out of gear.
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