Javon Walker almost retired!

[Coakleys Dad]

Source: Al Davis talked Raiders WR Walker out of retiring

By Chris Mortensen
ESPN.com
(Archive)





Updated: August 2, 2008, 12:34 PM ET

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Oakland Raiders receiver Javon Walker, struggling with his performance during training camp, told the team Thursday he intended to retire and offered to return his $11 million signing bonus.
According to a source, Raiders owner Al Davis persuaded Walker to remain with the team.

Walker

Walker signed a six-year, $55 million deal with Oakland in the offseason after a trying 2007 marked by knee injury.

Walker also was reportedly abducted, beaten and robbed near the Las Vegas Strip in June.
According to police, Walker was found unconscious on a side street shortly after dawn June 16.
He was hospitalized for two days with facial injuries and a concussion and told investigators that about $3,000 in cash and $100,000 worth of jewelry were taken.
Police released a grainy surveillance videotape June 24, identifying a man in it as a second suspect after the arrest of a first suspect.
In 72 career games during six seasons with the Packers and Broncos, Walker has 252 receptions for 3,815 yards and 30 touchdowns.

Wow...

 

[ajk23az]

Source: Al Davis talked Raiders WR Walker out of retiring

By Chris Mortensen
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Oakland Raiders receiver Javon Walker, struggling with his performance during training camp, told the team Thursday he intended to retire and offered to return his $11 million signing bonus.

According to a source, Raiders owner Al Davis persuaded Walker to remain with the team.

Javon Walker

Walker
Walker signed a six-year, $55 million deal with Oakland in the offseason after a trying 2007 marked by knee injury.

Walker also was reportedly abducted, beaten and robbed near the Las Vegas Strip in June.

According to police, Walker was found unconscious on a side street shortly after dawn June 16.

He was hospitalized for two days with facial injuries and a concussion and told investigators that about $3,000 in cash and $100,000 worth of jewelry were taken.

Police released a grainy surveillance videotape June 24, identifying a man in it as a second suspect after the arrest of a first suspect.

In 72 career games during six seasons with the Packers and Broncos, Walker has 252 receptions for 3,815 yards and 30 touchdowns.

Chris Mortensen covers the NFL for ESPN. Information from The Associated Press
was used in this report.

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[ddh33]

At least he intended to pay back his bonus...

I really thought he was going to be a Cowboy this year.

 

[DeaconBlues]

Al should accept the gift.

 

[CowboyWay]

Al should accept the gift.

I agree. If a players heart isn't in it, what do you think you'll get from him on the field?

This won't end well. I bet he retires in the next year or so.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Al: Take my wife... er.. my money... PLEASE!!

 

[mitchell2254]

This is becoming a sad case. Reminds me of Eddie Griffin in the NBA. Hope the results aren't the same.

Keep your head up Javon jeeze.

 

[tyke1doe]

Glad we didn't sign him. Thanks Al.

 

[big dog cowboy]

If we would have signed Walker, I wonder how the whole Terry Glenn situation would have played out.

 

[MapleLeaf]

...that Walker still has demons that need to be put to rest.

 

[dadymat]

Good thing Javon Walker passed on the Dallas Cowboys

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The Cowboys were one of several teams trying to sign Javon Walker in the off-season because he had been a quality recevier and he was available on the free agent market.
The Cowboys had as good a chance as anyone else to sign him until Al Davis offered him a deal that was much, much too good to pass: a 6-year, $55 million deal that included an $11 milion signing bonus.
Well, the Raiders had to talk him out of retiring yesterday. That's a bad sign. This game is too hard and too physical to play if your heart isn't in it.
The last couple of years have been difficult on Walker with the death of his good friend and being beaten and robbed in Las Vegas. He might need a mental health break.
Football aside, I hope he finds some peace.

 

[lkelly]

Al, two wrongs don't make a right. Someone gave you a chance at a do over and you botched it again.

 

[slick325]

...that Walker still has demons that need to be put to rest.

Definitely. Hope he seeks some mental therapy. Dealing with a close friends death is tough enough but having him or her in your arms when they take their last breath is something I can't even fathom dealing with. Add to that his ordeal in Vegas, Walker needs to seek some therapy. There is nothing wrong with it at all. Everyone needs someone they can confide in and if he/she has a degree in psychology, so be it.

 

[tyke1doe]

Definitely. Hope he seeks some mental therapy. Dealing with a close friends death is tough enough but having him or her in your arms when they take their last breath is something I can't even fathom dealing with. Add to that his ordeal in Vegas, Walker needs to seek some therapy. There is nothing wrong with it at all. Everyone needs someone they can confide in and if he/she has a degree in psychology, so be it.

It's being more of a man to admit you have a problem and seek help than to let everyone, and yourself, assume that you have no problems and you do.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

How does a walking corpse convince someone not to retire? That was mean, wasn't it? Oh well.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

LOL!

SOOOOOOO glad we didn't waste any money on this joke.