The thought DID cross HYATT™'s mind, but HOW are you going to pry #2 backup to a brittle Carson Palmer, Drew Stanton, loose from AZ before they'd offer Logan Thomas up? (Who looked a LOT better in preseason against KC tonight, incidentally.)
HYATT™ has purposely avoided weighing in on the whole Deflate Face issue, because in the immediate aftermath a lot of conflicting reports always come out and it takes a while to rip through who ACTUALLY knew what.
So far as HYATT™ can determine at this point, these things appear to be true;
1.) Mr. Smith promised to appear at a charity event for IK, and backed out at the last minute - leaving IK's event short-handed.
This is a serious matter, since people show up and donate large sums of money to see what they were promised & when they don't get it, feel somewhat cheated. That has a long lasting impact on IK's charity's ability to raise funds down the road.
The $600 amount is immaterial, especially in a world of half-millionaires.
We must all understand that this was all about "respect" and not about the actual money or amount thereof, when rookies can get stuck with a restaurant tab for THOUSANDS of dollars and have to swallow it as part of the job & to earn their own respect.
2.) Mr Smith claims the death of a "friend of a friend" or some such, was his rationale for not showing up for IK's charity event.
So far nobody has proven that death actually happened, though I suppose that is just a technical oversight at this point.
In any event, Brett Favre played OAK the day after his own FATHER passed away, when he had every reason to go back to Kiln to support his mother & family.
THAT is the difference between a professional that the locker room will follow into HELL itself and a not-so-respected crap QB like Mr. Smith.
A RESPECTED professional meets his obligations, unless there are extraordinary circumstances.
The death of someone not all that close to you is NOT "extraordinary" enough to screw over a team mate counting on your support for charity purposes.
In fact, HYATT™ has STILL not heard a word about whether or not it would have been possible for Mr. Smith to do BOTH - which was PROBABLY an option, though it would have involved Mr. Smith doing a bit of scrambling for time.
3.) The witnesses differ on whether or not Mr. Smith was smacked from behind - sucker-punch fashion - or just pasted in the face.
Accounts seem to support the idea that those made available by the team did NOT actually see the event in question and were commenting using the HC's PREFERRED language in saying the term "sucker-punch" - but in fact they did not KNOW whether or not it was such a dastardly act.
They were just doing their duty to coach and team, as they were instructed, but too many conflicting descriptions now exist for anyone of reasonable intellectual skills to continue to believe it was in fact a true "sucker-punch" - aside from the fact that HYATT™'s own personal experience with sucker punches tells him that receiving one usually involves being hit upside the eyeball socket or the side of the head, and NOT the jaw in such a force and fashion as to break it.
THAT particular aspect has NEVER rung true from the git-go.
4.) RESPECTED persons more often than not have many people willing to jump into a developing ugly situation to save that person from negative repercussions. Witness what OL players will do for their QB on the field any time they perceive him to have been unfairly hit by a defender. It can get ugly out there & we've all seen helmets fly & punches thrown as a result.
Mr. Smith apparently did not have one single person present in the locker room willing to step in on his behalf, to either defend him or protect him.
That simply does NOT happen, if your QB is respected - unless he is perceived by others to be deserving of whatever comes next.
These are violent men playing a violent sport, many of whom come from violent youths spent in violent neighborhoods where getting up in somebody's face can get you a lot worse than smacked in the face.
To believe not ONE of them could see this coming is to ask us to suspend disbelief & accept that this was so one-sided that Mr. Smith was completely innercent and it was impossible for IK to have actually raised a fist and smote him.
HYATT™ was born at night but he wasn't born LAST night.
5.) Already TOO many people have failed to condemn IK. We all get it that it is a PC culture, even in the NFL these days, but the failure to soundly and loudly condemn IK's action in any stronger terms than "it was 6th grade behavior" & "I'm disappointed in both players" begs the question;
WHY isn't anyone really condemning IK strongly?
Especially given that it happened to a supposed team FRANCHISE QB - whom we all know are covered in silk and gold and NEVER, EVER touched by anyone other than a defender from another team, and not even then without a 15 yard penalty and a hefty fine by the league.
In all honesty, HYATT™ must disclose that he NEVER considered Mr. Smith to be NFL QB material.
It may be that that fact colors HYATT™'s perceptions as to Mr. Smith's guilt or innocence in this matter, but HYATT™ also believes 6 semesters of college level psychology courses gives him sufficient training to believe the logic behind the matters just discussed is sound enough to withstand scrutiny as to motivations and expected behaviors of people in this profession, coming from the backgrounds many have.
HYATT™ NEVER for a second believed Mr. Smith would ever fulfill the franchise QB role and said many months ago - when The Amish Rifle was signed - that Fitzpatrick would open for the Jets as the starting QB in Week 1.
HYATT™ must admit, this was a surprising way for that prediction to come to fruition, but it was NOT UNEXPECTED!
One way or another, GeNOT Smith was NEVER going to take the first snap on offense in the 1st game of the season, for the Jets.
This was just a strange way of the inevitable coming about.
