Ex-Cowboy; Zeke Elliott needs to 'stop being dumb'

[Alaskan Ram]

Alcohol diminishes judgement. So do Boobs.

 

[ViennaMax]

maybe its just me but - as long as it is offseason and they come back in shape and show results on the field, whats the problem?

 

[Loyal]

21 years of age (22 in July) and millions of dollars in his pocket...Let's all be honest here, what would we have done? I like to think I would be level headed, but at 21 and under the influence I'm sure all of us have done some questionable things...Agreed he has to understand he's no ordinary Joe, but let's hope he realizes to think with the right head as many of us in our pasts have not.

On one hand, I understand what you are saying...but on the other, I was in the Navy at 18yrs, and had a heightened sense of responsibility at age 19..At 23 years, I was an E-5 with management responsibility with Cryptographic Equipment technicians....If I effed up and simply got a DUI, my career would have been seriously damaged....SO no, I don't think a public ripping off of a bikini top would ever have been something I would have done...too much to lose (why doesn't he think that way now?)

 

[den-the-coach]

.SO no, I don't think a public ripping off of a bikini top would ever have been something I would have done...too much to lose (why doesn't he think that way now?)

You shared so I will share...Air Force Combat Control in at 17 enlisted out 8 years later as an officer, that's right a branded mustang. Anyway was always good about never drinking and driving, but got a young lady pregnant and could not drive her to the clinic fast enough only to be in the arms of another woman the very same night when I left her in Ohio to go home on leave....Not a day goes by that I don't regret that time for obvious reasons and I was 21 at the time so who am I to ever judge?

 

[Loyal]

You shared so I will share...Air Force Combat Control in at 17 enlisted out 8 years later as an officer, that's right a branded mustang. Anyway was always good about never drinking and driving, but got a young lady pregnant and could not drive her to the clinic fast enough only to be in the arms of another woman the very same night when I left her in Ohio to go home on leave....Not a day goes by that I don't regret that time for obvious reasons and I was 21 at the time so who am I to ever judge?

I'm not really judging I guess....Zeke has been given so much, and so much is required....I wasn't innocent mind you, there were whores in my past, and behavior that I am not too proud of now...But I had an inner radar that protected me from doing things that would affect my working life..Emmanuel doesn't seem to have that...

 

[den-the-coach]

I'm not really judging I guess....Zeke has been given so much, and so much is required....

I concur he has to smarten up I just wish the forty something Zeke could talk to the 21 year old Zeke.

 

[Riverumbbq]

Dang. I must be a whole lot different from y'all. I would absolutely not have done something like that and I struggle to understand the kind of mind set it takes to even feel that's a possibility.

Not that I'm judging him or anybody else. I just don't get it. What would make that ok? Just at a basic human level I don't see how that would be ok except under very abnormal circumstances. Being a celebrity, especially one who's paychecks can be cut off arbitrarily for doing stupid things, hell I probably wouldn't even drink in public. But I tend to be very cautious, so I guess there's the difference. I still don't get it.

Completely agree. I mean, I was no angel, and there are places where one can 'let their hair down', but a St.Patty's day festival in the middle of town ?

I used to own a location motion picture catering company as well as a popular restaurant and bar in one of the most well known 'spring break' towns in America, ... and we saw it all go down, things satan would blush at. You combine booze, drugs, spoiled rich kids and a week of planned debauchery, ... add boats, jet skis, thousands of girls in the tiniest string bikinis that look like supermodels seeking celebrity, known high school & college athletes playing the field, and they are known because they tell you, it's absolutely the most amazing circus you will ever see. I had a porn director ask an employee if they could take a few hours off to film. Intoxication, overdose, violence and public sex also comes with the territory. We got used to it because it was a job, although I couldn't imagine being on the other end.
I did discover that young rich kids live in a world of privilege the rest us will never be able to relate to. You and I would be in jail where someone with a 'name' gets a slight warning, ... it's a type cast Hollywood script in living form. I'm not surprised by kids like Elliot, they really don't know what's at risk, they mostly don't care. To have that much money at such a young age, and not have the maturity to understand the 'gift', they live in a world where agents and 'hangers on' (the entourage) tell them they are invincible, many of them come to believe it. Time will tell whether they grow up or not, most will, but there are also those who find themselves friendless and penniless when the well dries up. For Zeke's sake, lets hope he 'gets it' sooner than later. jmo.

 

[1maGoh]

She asked him to do it?

I think he's trying to make a difference between unwanted and ambivalent. She didn't ask him to, but might not have really cared. It seemed, from the video, that he was more of an annoyance then an actual threat or offense. Don't get me wrong, I think what he did was stupid and dispicable, but she may not really be that upset about it or consider it criminal.

 

[dieterbrock]

I think he's trying to make a difference between unwanted and ambivalent. She didn't ask him to, but might not have really cared. It seemed, from the video, that he was more of an annoyance then an actual threat or offense. Don't get me wrong, I think what he did was stupid and dispicable, but she may not really be that upset about it or consider it criminal.

I get that, however the fact that she didn't have an issue with it doesn't make the offense less egregious. Ray Rice wife didn't press charges against him and wasn't mad about it either...