Malcolm Kelly interview on Lavar and Dukes

[justice98]

Why does Lavar always go after the ex-Redskins?? Trying to get dirt?

If I were doing a radio show, I would too.

[I_Bleed_B&G]

He is going to come out and say that his name isn't really spelled Malcolm but is in fact Malcomb

[MartinC]

In Malcolm's case, I think the team believes his sore foot will be good enough to obtain another job in a week or less, where-in an injury settlement might cost more than just holding onto him until he says "I'm good".

Normally, I believe a team reaches an injury settlement and THEN waives the player.

Right. I don't think there is a conflict in what we are saying but posters who are saying we held him out of practice so we would not be liable for injury are wrong IMO. What you said in your post and what Iw as saying is essentially we cant just waive Kelly and wave bye bye because he is injured. We either have to agre an injury settlement and then waive him or waive him injured and if he clears waivers add him to our IR until he is fit or we agree a settlement.

Either way it would have been to the Redskins advantage to have Kelly declared healthy and practice because at that point we could then have just waived him with no cost.

[RedskinsNation]

Either A) Malcomb Kelly was injured and couldnt get on the field.

or B) Malcomb Kelly sucked and couldnt get on the field.

Of course hes going to try and bash the coach, owner, players or whoever.

I think life will go on after this guy. Im just pissed because i remember scouting reports of him before the draft said they wouldnt touch him at all due to how bad his knee was and how it was being held together by strings. Yet Vinny drafted him with high hopes...

[jflow78]

Right. I don't think there is a conflict in what we are saying but posters who are saying we held him out of practice so we would not be liable for injury are wrong IMO. What you said in your post and what Iw as saying is essentially we cant just waive Kelly and wave bye bye because he is injured. We either have to agre an injury settlement and then waive him or waive him injured and if he clears waivers add him to our IR until he is fit or we agree a settlement.

Either way it would have been to the Redskins advantage to have Kelly declared healthy and practice because at that point we could then have just waived him with no cost.

Absolutley, I wasn't trying to say there was a BIG conflict, just a minor detail that says the team doesn't have to give him a settlement yet. More for the people saying he'd already been paid an injury settlement than for you.

I think that's exactly what the Skins are doing, waiting until he's healthy (or claimed off of waivers) and then they'll just cut him. In that case no settlement needed. So, we agree.

---------- Post added August-31st-2011 at 09:34 AM ----------

Man, some of ya'll are real sweethearts. People get hit with uncontrollable, unwanted health or medical issues all the time... even professional athletes. His body hasn't been durable enough. That's all. Some of you make it sound as though he's asked for this. Now if it comes out that he self-inflicted a Nancy Kerrigan, I'll change my tune. But that seems pretty damn silly.

A close friend of mine was fairly recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis... Guess I should berate her and constantly point out how completely useless she is? Oh, you fell down the stairs again? Idiot. Jeez, what a ****ing stupid ***** for having it.

Yes, that's exactly what you should do. Studies have shown that sometimes the best medicine is mocking and hazing people into health.

Over-reaction much?

[lovetoaster]

Perhaps. I think he's mostly just trying to be edgy. If he were always negative about the Skins, I'd say he has an axe to grind, but I think he's simply trying to establish an on-air identity.

I think his on-air identity is a negative guy with an axe to grind.

[DieHard86]

What incentive did Shanahan have in not using a tall, young wide receiver?

MK is suggesting the trainers gave the coach bad info? who cares? Either you get on the field or you don't. Good luck to MK, but if you are always hurt, you don't get to be on an NFL team.

[Alvin_Walton40]

Lavar just couldn't keep from going all grassy knoll again. I don't blame MK for feeling bitter but saying that in a couple of days that some kinda of truth would come out....come on man.

[justice98]

What incentive did Shanahan have in not using a tall, young wide receiver?

MK is suggesting the trainers gave the coach bad info? who cares? Either you get on the field or you don't. Good luck to MK, but if you are always hurt, you don't get to be on an NFL team.

Screw the trainers, if you can play, drag the coach out there and show 'em you'll be fine. Not like he was dealing with a concussion. Or get a second opinion.

[MartinC]

Screw the trainers, if you can play, drag the coach out there and show 'em you'll be fine. Not like he was dealing with a concussion. Or get a second opinion.

I think what MK is suggesting is he was saying his foot hurt and he could not go but all the MRIs and Xrays were negative and the training staff were saying we cant see anything wrong. I'm guessing there was some questioning of Kelly by the coaches saying "you sure you can't go" or words to the effect.

All guess work of course.

[lovetoaster]

Listening to the interview it sounded more like Malcolm was talking more things that fans don't know about his injuries, and the extent of them. He did seem to have good things to say about Shanahan and the current FO, granted he implied that he was rushed back from injury. Which if he tries to do will be a major blight on his reputation in my eyes, especially considering the fact that he was the one who rushed himself back from injury last year (he admitted as much and Shanny expressed frustration with him telling the team trainers that he was okay when he wasn't). He claimed he was 100% and ready to go towards the middle of last season, so considering he had about 9 months to recuperate, I don't see how he could be any further rushed. So again, unless he's blaming himself for rushing back, he's a bold-faced liar and excuse maker.

Chad Pukes and Lavar sound like they are just trying to stir **** up, where there is nothing to stir. No surprisingly.

I don't think he's going to say anything controversial, that's just Lavar and Duke trying to get ratings. He's probably going to say how he's felt this whole time and how hard it's been for him, that the media doesn't understand that side of it. He's been bashed non-stop for his injury issues and there's no reason to believe he did it to himself. Both Zorn and Mike have stated he was as hard a worker as any guy on the team, and wanted to be a Redskin. That's why Mike kept him on the team last year even after the mistake he made by practicing and re-aggravating his injury. Sometimes we fans need to understand these guys are humans, they're not just football players that exist solely for our entertainment.

His body couldn't handle the rigours of the NFL. That's not his fault, he tried. Let's stop murdering his character for it and insulting his manhood.

I am going to go ahead and highlight these two posts as they are more than likely the two most accurate that I have read in this thread. There are a lot of people that are jumping to a lot of conclusions...

[SkinsTight]

I don't know how anyone can sit there and listen to Lavar, beside his opiniated point of view he is rather incoheren. It seems to me his bucket of vocabulary is as rich as my 4 year old daughter coloring book. This is Lavar favorite line "It is what it is,man". I don't hate the man but REALLY he should get another day time job.

[Kindred]

I am going to go ahead and highlight these two posts as they are more than likely the two most accurate that I have read in this thread. There are a lot of people that are jumping to a lot of conclusions...

Thanks for highlighting those posts. I think those are fair assessments and we should tone things down around here given that we dont know all the details.

[Chanhillbilly]

Here is the official transcript of the conversation:

Dukes - Uh you were shafted by the team and the Shanahans suck really bad right?
Lavar - Hmmmm
Malcolm - Yeah they shafted me, you don't know the half of it. I'm not Mr. Glass.
Lavar - Hmmm
Dukes - So what your saying is, they have no idea what they are doing then right? After all Mr. Glass was the anti-super hero
Lavar - I too was shafted by them them. I could still play, I was in shape, I wasn't totally injured. I hope you initialed page 16 of your contract, that is where they got me.
Dukes - This is the worst organization ever isn't it.
Malcolm - uhh, yeah I guess.
Dukes - Do you think I look like a lesbian?
Lavar - Hmmmmm.
Malcolm - Yeah, you know what? You do look like a lesbian, not one of those hot cinemax after dark ones, more like the ones that wear flannel and hang out with Chazz Bono or Rosie O'Donnnel.
Lavar - Hmmmm.
Dukes - Great, so to sum up our conversation, Synder does have goat horns, we are the best sports radio duo ever, the redskins are a dysfunctional organization that has no clue what they are doing and they have wrecked your career despite your being Mr. Glass.
Lavar - Hmmmm.
Malcolm - Yup.
Dukes - Thank Malcolm best of luck to you and where ever you may land, just be careful not to roll and ankle or spike yourself when you do land.

[Jahbird]

I don't know how anyone can sit there and listen to Lavar, beside his opiniated point of view he is rather incoheren. It seems to me his bucket of vocabulary is as rich as my 4 year old daughter coloring book. This is Lavar favorite line "It is what it is,man". I don't hate the man but REALLY he should get another day time job.

There is so much wrong with your grammar here that you might want to check yourself commenting on LaVar's difficulties with the language.