I am torn on Randy Gregory

Wood · Jul 27, 2015

Elite pass rusher in college who magically drops to Dallas in 2nd round. Who wouldn't be excited. Having followed him on twitter in off-season I can now easily see how this kid went adrift. Now first let me say I don't think he is bad in anyway but more of just immature guy. He post questionable retweeds: 1) one about some girl retweeting some guy showing his junk in shower. 2) Yesterday he tweets out:

"I lose sleep over the thought of playing football again smh, season to come on already

"

I get sense that Randy Gregory doesn't love football. After the humiliation of dropping from possible top 5 pick to second round this is what I would expect his tweet to look like:

"Can't sleep...chomping bit to start hitting and showing what they missed on. #cowboyszone."

Having said this, when I watched him in pads in minis he could be special. His ability to lean, burst from start to finish, length makes him potentially elite. But boy I have moderate concerns on whats going on upstairs.

Fredd · Jul 27, 2015

they need to keep him grounded and if so, he could be dynamic

JoeKing · Jul 27, 2015

Dude hasn't played a single down yet and you worried about him b/c of what you read on social media? :facepalm:

I wonder what kind of crazy things we'd be reading from Charles Haley had there been social media back then?

BIGDen · Jul 27, 2015

Wood said:
Elite pass rusher in college who magically drops to Dallas in 2nd round. Who wouldn't be excited. Having followed him on twitter in off-season I can now easily see how this kid went adrift. Now first let me say I don't think he is bad in anyway but more of just immature guy. He post questionable retweeds: 1) one about some girl retweeting some guy showing his junk in shower. 2) Yesterday he tweets out:

"I lose sleep over the thought of playing football again smh, season to come on already

"

I get sense that Randy Gregory doesn't love football. After the humiliation of dropping from possible top 5 pick to second round this is what I would expect his tweet to look like:

"Can't sleep...chomping bit to start hitting and showing what they missed on. #cowboyszone."

Having said this, when I watched him in pads in minis he could be special. His ability to lean, burst from start to finish, length makes him potentially elite. But boy I have moderate concerns on whats going on upstairs.

I'm not sure he intended for that to read the way it does. I wouldn't be surprised if he meant to say something like "I lose sleep waiting for football to get get here. Season come on already!" I'm not a mind reader, but I doubt he intended to tweet something that shows he dreads the thought of football season approaching. He certainly doesn't play like a guy who doesn't have a passion for the game. I'm more concerned about him failing another drug test than not loving the game. Like most Cowboys fans, I'm really excited about his potential.

esloan · Jul 27, 2015

Wood said:
Elite pass rusher in college who magically drops to Dallas in 2nd round. Who wouldn't be excited. Having followed him on twitter in off-season I can now easily see how this kid went adrift. Now first let me say I don't think he is bad in anyway but more of just immature guy. He post questionable retweeds: 1) one about some girl retweeting some guy showing his junk in shower. 2) Yesterday he tweets out:

"I lose sleep over the thought of playing football again smh, season to come on already

"

I get sense that Randy Gregory doesn't love football. After the humiliation of dropping from possible top 5 pick to second round this is what I would expect his tweet to look like:

"Can't sleep...chomping bit to start hitting and showing what they missed on. #cowboyszone."

Having said this, when I watched him in pads in minis he could be special. His ability to lean, burst from start to finish, length makes him potentially elite. But boy I have moderate concerns on whats going on upstairs.

I think you are totally misreading his tweet. It was worded poorly but I think he is saying that he can't wait for the season to start. I think he is excited and just worded it poorly.

Temo · Jul 27, 2015

esloan said:
I think you are totally misreading his tweet. It was worded poorly but I think he is saying that he can't wait for the season to start. I think he is excited and just worded it poorly.

Agree fully with this. The key part is "season come on already".

DFWJC · Jul 27, 2015

esloan said:
I think you are totally misreading his tweet. It was worded poorly but I think he is saying that he can't wait for the season to start. I think he is excited and just worded it poorly.

Hope you're right.
The "smh" part made we think he feels the offseason went by too fast and he can't believe football is already starting again.
Not gonna worry though. Up till now I got the opposite impression from him...that he had a passion for the game.

JohnsKey19 · Jul 27, 2015

The guy misses football and can't wait to play. What am i missing here??????

DFWJC · Jul 27, 2015

Temo said:
Agree fully with this. The key part is "season come on already".

But he didn't say that.....it read "season to come on already"
As in, the season is already here,...not season, hurry up and get here.

I'll assume it just came across oddly.
Not gonna fret.

Fwiw though, probably 90% of players absolutely hate training camp. It doesn't mean they don't bust their tails or realize that it's a necessary pain in butt to get ready for the season.

JBS · Jul 27, 2015

It's more likely that his grammar is poor...than it is that his grammar isn't poor and he willingly chose to word it that way..

Galian Beast · Jul 27, 2015

Wow...

JoeKing · Jul 27, 2015

GloryDaysRBack said:
It's more likely that his grammar is poor...than it is that his grammar isn't poor and he willingly chose to word it that way..

I thought that too. It's actually pretty common.

waving monkey · Jul 27, 2015

looking for trouble

DallasEast · Jul 27, 2015

Was Gregory majoring in English at Nebraska? Just my opinion but I think messages, that do not even test the 140-character limit, may lack proper context.

BrAinPaiNt · Jul 27, 2015

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WoodysGirl · Jul 27, 2015

Training camp needs to come on already.. :facepalm:

big dog cowboy · Jul 27, 2015

Wood said:
"I lose sleep over the thought of playing football again smh, season to come on already

"

I get sense that Randy Gregory doesn't love football. After the humiliation of dropping from possible top 5 pick to second round this is what I would expect his tweet to look like:

You are misreading his tweet. He can't sleep because of his excitement thinking about playing football again. Sounds like he really just loves to play and of all teams to play on America's Team? I'd be all kinds of giddy.

mattjames2010 · Jul 27, 2015

ESPN would love this. Right up there with their big daily news stories.

Don't forget to bring up the Dez tape as well.

ElGatoGrande · Jul 27, 2015

DoctorChicken · Jul 27, 2015

esloan said:
I think you are totally misreading his tweet. It was worded poorly but I think he is saying that he can't wait for the season to start. I think he is excited and just worded it poorly.

I honestly wonder if autocorrect screwed it up. That seems like a clumsy sentence autocorrect would blurt out if one was tweeting in a hurry.

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