Crazy People Are Dangerous: Black ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shoots Memphis Cop

Posted on | March 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Black ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shoots Memphis Cop

Say hello to Geronimo Kee, 22, who was behind the wheel of a Nissan doing 81 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-240 at 4 o’clock in the morning when he was pulled over by Memphis Police 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson. The officer wrote Kee a speeding ticket, but Kee refused to sign the ticket:

“When 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson went back to the driver and asked him to sign the citation, Mr. Kee refused and rolled his window up,” the affidavit read. “2nd Lt. Johnson requested additional backup and advised Mr. Kee several times that if he did not sign the ticket he would be taken to jail. Mr. Kee would only roll his window down enough to speak with 2nd Lt. Johnson.”
According to the affidavit, Johnson spoke with Kee for the next 14 minutes, trying to convince Kee to sign the speeding ticket.
“Mr. Kee made the statement, ‘You’re going to have to kill me,’ several times during this encounter,” the affidavit read.
More back and forth took place, with Johnson ultimately telling Kee that he would be under arrest and that Johnson would have to break his window to place Kee in custody, if he continued to refuse to sign the ticket, the affidavit read.
“Mr. Kee refused to get out of the vehicle to sign the citation yet again,” it said. “2nd Lt. Johnson then broke the driver’s side door window and Mr. Kee fired several shots, striking 2nd Lt. Johnson multiple times. Officer Forrest [who had arrived as backup on the stop] fired back at Mr. Kee in defense of 2nd Lt. Johnson. Mr. Kee sped off southbound on 240 South.”

Kee was able to escape, temporarily, with the assistance of four accomplices — Zaire Kee, 24, Tezaree Pennington, 42, Kennedy Williams, 23, and Malik Oliver, 25 — according to police. Pennington is Kee’s mother; Williams is his girlfriend. Kee was apparently wounded in the hand by the second officer’s gunfire, and the accomplices were treating his wound while harboring the fugitive at the girlfriend’s house.

Keep in mind, this was all about a speeding ticket. From the moment I heard about this shooting last week, with the description of Kee’s actions — rolling up the window and refusing to sign the ticket — I suspected he was a “sovereign citizen,” a type of kook I’ve written about before:

The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American litigants, commentators, tax protesters, and financial-scheme promoters. Self-described “sovereign citizens” see themselves as answerable only to their particular interpretations of the common law and as not subject to any government statutes or proceedings. In the United States, they do not recognize U.S. currency and maintain that they are “free of any legal constraints.” . . .
In surveys conducted in 2014 and 2015, representatives of U.S. law enforcement ranked the risk of terrorism from the sovereign-citizen movement higher than the risk from any other group, including Islamic extremists, militias, racists, and neo-Nazis.

For a long time, the “sovereign citizen” movement was a largely white phenomenon, considered “right wing,” but in recent years it has spread to the black community, probably due to the influence of social media and, in particular, YouTube videos. My suspicion about Geronimo Kee was confirmed after he made his first court appearance:

After walking into the courtroom, Judge Johnson asked Kee if he’d be able to make his $175,000 bond.
“All criminal cases are commercial,” Kee said. “I am a natural man, created by Yahweh and subject to natural law. Let the record show that.”
“I’m not sure what the record is showing, but OK,” Judge Johnson said. “Are you able to make your $175,000 bond?”
“Shelby County is holding me against my will,” Kee replied. “Through coercion, assault and torture they have forced my fingerprints through the intake process. I have the report right here that shows Shelby County is holding me against my will.” . . .
Kee’s comments, along with his alleged refusal to sign a speeding citation, suggest that the 22-year-old may identify as a sovereign citizen. The sovereign citizen movement is defined by the Anti-Defamation League as “an extreme anti-government movement whose members believe the government has no authority over them.”
“Alright. I’m sure they are holding you against your will,” Judge Johnson said. “I’m asking you if you’re able to make your bond.”
Kee then began repeating that “all criminal cases are commercial.”
“That sentence doesn’t even make sense,” Judge Johnson said. “All criminal cases are commercial. You mean like a TV commercial?”
Kee then made comments about an “artificial burden” and talking about the 14th amendment.
“I am a natural man, created by Yahweh and subject to natural law,” Kee said. . . .
“And you’re subject to the laws of Tennessee too,” replied Judge Johnson.
“I am not subject to admiralty or maritime law,” Kee said.
“Maritime law?” questioned Judge Johnson. “Are we on a ship? OK. I’m not aware of that. Are you able to hire an attorney?”
Judge Johnson then interrupted Kee as he once again recited his speech, asking a court employee to order a mental evaluation for the 22-year-old.
“It sounds like Mr. Kee does not want to be represented by anybody and he’s speaking nonsense,” Judge Johnson said. “Can you fill out a mental evaluation form for me for the suspect?”
Kee was ordered back to court on March 25.
“Shelby County is holding me against my will,” Kee said as he was led out of the courtroom.

You know what the finding of the court-ordered mental evaluation will be? The suspect is “daft, deranged, demented, berserk, bonkers, off their rockers, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

A little more background: When he was 18 and being held at a juvenile detention center, Geronimo Kee was charged with vandalism, escaping custody of an officer, and inciting a riot after he and fellow inmates caused a disturbance: “Authorities say several housing pods were damaged in the incident and cinder blocks were used to break windows, doors, security mirrors and security cameras.” Also, after the judge initially set Kee’s bond in the shooting at $175,000, the Memphis Police Association complained and the bond was increased to $500,000. Frankly, I think he should have been held without bond. Shooting a cop over a simple traffic ticket? You’re an eminent danger to public safety.

Finally, the good news is that Lt. Johnson survived, despite being shot four times. He’s black, the Memphis police chief is also black, and therefore there is no racial “angle” that would draw the interest of the national media to this crime. But it’s important to be aware of the problems caused by “sovereign citizens,” because they’re crazy and, as I keep reminding you: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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In The Mailbox: 03.14.24

Posted on | March 15, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.14.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Eric Carmen of the Raspberries RIP, The Mendacious Myth of Palestine (via maps), and Brigadoon
Twitchy: Feds Now Targeting Gamers For Spreading “Disinformation”, Illegal Online Drug Buyers Find Out The Hard Way That Online Crooks Can’t Be Trusted, and The Gender Cult Ship Is Sinking
Louder With Crowder: Former Disney star Olivia Rodrigo is so pro-abortion, she hands out free “Plan B” at concerts, UK follows the science and bans puberty blockers for minors, of course JK Rowling is dropping mics about it, Diving Deep into the Boeing Whistleblower’s Mysterious (ahem) “Suicide!”, and Add Taco Bell to the list of businesses making drastic decisions because of rampant California crime
Vox Popoli: Column and Line, The Demonic Dirt, Upon Further Review, Remember, THEY’RE the Bad Guys, and Shut it Down: Haiti Edition
Draw & Talk Comics: I Went Missing & I’m Still Planning On Hiding
Upstream Reviews: John Carter

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Dana Loesch: Trudeau’s Secret Lab Leak Exposed/He Threatens Jail Time For Past Tweets, Now They’re Murdering Roadhouse, also, Last Week In Legal -More Evidence Edition
Don Surber: Haiti Replaces Ukraine, also, Social Security has a surplus

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Haiti’s Zombie Apocalypse: Media Skeptical of Cannibalism Reports

Posted on | March 13, 2024 | 3 Comments

How bad is the situation in Haiti? Three words: Worse than Baltimore.

Sure, Baltimore is a violence-plagued hellhole and no sane person would go near it, but as bad as things are in Baltimore, the city hasn’t yet been taken over by gangs of cannibals:

The embattled prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, has said he will resign after weeks of mounting chaos in the Caribbean nation, where gangs have been attacking government structures and social order is on the brink of collapse.
Henry said in a video address late Monday that his government would leave power after the establishment of a transitional council, adding, “Haiti needs peace. Haiti needs stability.”
“My government will leave immediately after the inauguration of the council. We will be a caretaker government until they name a prime minister and a new cabinet,” Henry said.
Henry’s adviser Jean Junior Joseph told CNN that Henry would remain in his role until the formation of a new interim government.
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), meeting in Jamaica on Monday said it had agreed to set up a transitional council to lay the foundations for elections in Haiti. . . .
When the worst of the violence erupted last week, Henry was in Kenya to sign an agreement to send 1,000 Kenyan police officers to the Caribbean nation to restore the security situation of which his government has lost control.
He was unable to return to Haiti as the security situation deteriorated around the airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince. A plan to travel via the neighboring Dominican Republic was abandoned after the government there refused permission for his plane to land. He has been in the US territory of Puerto Rico since last week.
The United States will contribute $300 million to the Kenyan-led multinational security mission, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after attending the CARICOM meeting on Monday. He also announced an additional $33 million in “humanitarian assistance for the people of Haiti.”
Following Henry’s announced resignation and “the complete breakdown of law and order” in Haiti, Kenya has put its deployment of police to the country on hold, a Kenyan spokesperson told CNN.
“Without a political administration in Haiti, there is no anchor on which a police deployment can rest, hence the government will await the installation of a new constitutional authority in Haiti,” Kenya’s principal secretary for foreign affars, Koror Sing’Oei, said. . . .
Henry, who came to power unelected in 2021 following the assassination of Haiti’s then-president, failed to hold elections last year, saying the country’s insecurity would compromise the vote. But his decision only further enraged protesters who had for months demanded he stand down as Haiti slid further into poverty and rampant gang violence.
Since Henry’s trip to Kenya, Port-au-Prince has been gripped by a wave of highly coordinated gang attacks on law enforcement and state institutions, which has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Haiti’s government has been under a state of emergency since groups attacked the country’s largest prison in Port-au-Prince earlier this month, killing and injuring police and prison staff and allowing some 3,500 inmates to escape.
One gang leader, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, took credit for the attack and said the jailbreak was an attempt to overthrow Henry’s government.
“If Ariel Henry doesn’t step down, if the international community continues to support Ariel Henry, they will lead us directly into a civil war that will end in genocide,” Cherizier told Reuters in Port-au-Prince last week.
Gangs now control 80% of Haiti’s capital, according to United Nations estimates, and continue to fight for the rest. While Henry was out of the country, gangs laid siege to the country’s main airport to prevent his safe return.

OK, so Haiti’s president was assassinated just three years ago. His replacement has now been driven out of office by gangs led by a guy nicknamed “Barbecue.” For the record, “Chérizier has denied that his nickname . . . came from accusations of his setting people on fire.” However, his gangs have committed multiple massacres and, while the mainstream media are insisting that there is no credibility to reports of cannibalism amid the chaos, there is a history of such things in Haiti. Do some research into Sect Rouge, if you’re interested.

We do not have any confirmed cases of cannibalism in the present disorder, but when there is a “complete breakdown of law and order,” how would we know? There are no police to investigate or apprehend the cannibals, nor are there any courts where the cannibals could be put on trial. So if there are cannibals in Haiti, they’re running wild with nobody to stop them, and the outside world would have no way of knowing. Do you think any American reporters are booking flights for Port-au-Prince, to investigate these reports of cannibalism? Can you imagine, for example, the Washington Post sending Taylor Lorenz to Haiti?

OK, maybe you can imagine that, you sadistic bastards, but the point I was trying to make is that Haiti is worse than Baltimore, which is about as bad as it gets in America. The chaos in Haiti is a reminder of just how bad things can get — a worst-case scenario, the Zombie Apocalypse — and if the gangs who have taken over are not actually feasting on their victims yet, perhaps it’s just a matter of time.

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In The Mailbox: 03.12.24 (Abbreviated Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 13, 2024 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Get Woke, Go Broke – Deadspin Edition
EBL: The Regime, Mace vs. Stephanopoulos, and Poor Things
Twitchy: The Adults Are Back In Charge -Part N In A Series, Liz Cheney Lashing Out At MAGA Backfires As The J6 Committee Coverup Gets Worse & Worse, and Chris Murphy Admits Class Warfare Is The Only Way The Democrats Can Win
Louder With Crowder: Hobby Lobby teams up with pro-life diaper company to do something wonderful for expectant parents, Joe Biden Apologizes For Insulting Laken Riley’s Killer, Dana Carvey nails FLAWLESS Biden impersonation about the border crisis, complete with gibberish and everything, and Girl won’t calm down when Taco Bell runs out of her favorite item, puts her hands on the wrong employee
Vox Popoli: Those Who Call Evil Good, The Roots of GamerGate 2.0, DEI vs Semiconductors, Ireland Rejects Clown World, and The US Defines Antisemitism
Against The Mountains Of Madness: Malicious Compliance & The AI Conundrum,
Tessellations: Fall, or Dodge In Hell, How Not To Be An NPC,
Upstream Reviews: Dune (2000), also, Torchship
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: DIEing to stop CHIPS
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Forgotten Heroine’s Journey,
Gab: We’re Cleaning Up Gab & It’s Long Overdue

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CDR Salamander: Sea Blindness with Dr. James W.E. Smith On Midrats, also, So A Pier For Hamas It Is,
Dana Loesch: The Angry SOTU, also, Sunday Night Thoughts,
Don Surber: Will they get away with it again?
Glenn Reynolds: Some Scuba Notes
STUMP: On Self-Regulation – Sumo, Failing Annuities, & Public Pension Practice, The Week In Meep, and DST Kills – More Tales Of The Killer Time-Changer

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Academia’s DEI ‘Oppression’ Racket and the Demonization of Jews on Campus

Posted on | March 12, 2024 | 3 Comments

Harvard University alumna Dara Horn published a very interesting article in The Atlantic last month talking about the climate on elite campuses, the subject of congressional hearings:

The problem was not that Jewish students on American university campuses didn’t want free speech, or that they didn’t want to hear criticism of Israel. Instead, they didn’t want people vandalizing Jewish student organizations’ buildings, or breaking or urinating on the buildings’ windows. They didn’t want people tearing their mezuzahs down from their dorm-room doors. They didn’t want their college instructors spouting anti-Semitic lies and humiliating them in class. They didn’t want their posters defaced with Hitler caricatures, or their dorm windows plastered with F**K JEWS. They didn’t want people punching them in the face, or beating them with a stick, or threatening them with death for being Jewish. At world-class American colleges and universities, all of this happened and more. . . .
In Congress, all three university presidents offered some version of the platitudes that “Hatred comes from ignorance” and “Education is the answer.” But if hatred comes from ignorance, why were America’s best universities full of this very specific ignorance? And why were so many people trying to justify it, explain it away, or even deny it? . . .
Shortly after the [October 7] attacks, a Cornell professor publicly proclaimed the barbarity “exhilarating” and “energizing,” while a Columbia professor called it “awesome” and an “achievement.” Comparable praise percolated through America’s top universities, coming from students and faculty alike. On campuses around the country, students began gathering regularly to chant “There is only one solution: intifada revolution!”—a reference to a suicide-bombing campaign in Israel a generation ago that maimed and murdered well over 1,000 Jews. (If there is only one solution, perhaps one could call it the Final Solution.)
Students took these rallies inside libraries and other campus buildings. They vandalized university property with such slogans as “Zionism = Genocide,” “New Intifada,” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”—referring to a geographic area that encompasses the entirety of the state of Israel, where half the world’s Jews live. . . . On some campuses, the exhilaration escalated into death threats and physical assaults against Jewish students. When a Jewish Tulane University student tried to stop an anti-Israel protester near campus from burning an Israeli flag, protesters attacked him and other Jewish students, breaking one student’s nose. . . .
Many public and private institutions have invested enormously in recent years in attempts to defang bigotry; ours is an era in which even sneaker companies feel obliged to publicly denounce hate. But diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have proved to be no match for anti-Semitism, for a clear reason: the durable idea of anti-Semitism as justice.
DEI efforts are designed to combat the effects of social prejudice by insisting on equity: Some people in our society have too much power and too much privilege, and are overrepresented, so justice requires leveling the playing field. But anti-Semitism isn’t primarily a social prejudice. It is a conspiracy theory: the big lie that Jews are supervillains manipulating others. The righteous fight for justice therefore does not require protecting Jews as a vulnerable minority. Instead it requires taking Jews down. . . .

Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart used to say.

“Diversity, equity and inclusion” programs — and the justification of such programs as necessary for “leveling the playing field” in the name “justice” — represent a simplistic misunderstanding of how the world operates, a misunderstanding directly related to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Ronald Reagan once famously described this worldview: “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.” Exactly so.

The Left believes that inequality is synonymous with injustice. Insofar as you have a nickel’s more net worth than your neighbor, this disparity proves that you are oppressing him. You may laugh at this as silly hyperbole, but it is the essence of the belief system that justifies DEI programs at universities, and which also justifies people claiming that Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza. How unfair it is — an injustice! — that Israel should be a wealthy nation while Gaza is poor, and how unfair it is that Israel has a powerful military with which to punish Hamas.

Viewed through the warped lenses of leftist thinking, nations that win wars are always oppressors and those who lose wars are always victims — unless, however, the winners are Communists, in which case how dare you speak of “victims” you capitalist swine! The Left’s formulaic conceptions of “justice” are always premised on the idea that successful people have somehow succeeded at the expense of others, and therefore failure is proof of victimhood. If the average annual income of Group A is X, while the income of Group B is X-minus-1, then Group B has been cheated out of its “fair share,” according to the Left.

The disparity between Jews in Israel and Arabs in Gaza (the essential casus belli of the October 7 Hamas attacks) may have a long history and involve many different factors, but the motives of Hamas terrorism are really just the same sort of whiny demand for “fairness” that grown-ups learn to expect from any five-year-old who’s been told “no.”

For nearly 40 years, the beef was the Israeli occupation of Gaza. So in 2005, Israel announced it was pulling out of Gaza, removing its settlements: “Here, you can have it. No more occupation.” The Palestinians could have turned Gaza into a luxury seaside resort community, but they’re Palestinians, you see. Success is not in their DNA; failure is the essence of their national character. The residents of Gaza promptly elected Hamas as their governing party and turned Gaza into a hive of terrorism, a base for launching attacks against Israel, which happened routinely — although the world at large seldom took notice — up until the big attack on October 7, which could not be ignored, and which led to Israel finally determining to destroy Hamas.

Dara Horn, bless her heart, cannot let go of her leftist conceptions of “justice,” even when these ideas are used as justification for Jew-hating. She speaks of DEI programs as necessary to “combat the effects of social prejudice,” without bothering to interrogate that premise.

What does “social prejudice” mean, and does such prejudice suffice as the all-purpose explanation for disparities and conflicts between various groups on the campus of Harvard or anywhere else? How much does it matter, in terms of an individual’s success and happiness in life, whether he is an object of “social prejudice”? Isn’t it better — as a matter of education, which is after all what Harvard is supposed to be good at — to teach young people to cope effectively with whatever disadvantages they may suffer, than to fill them with resentment and self-pity by lecturing them about how oppressed they are? Dara Horn has apparently never given much thought to this aspect of what’s gone wrong at her alma mater, and why? Because conservatives are, and have been for many years, persona non grata at Harvard and other Ivy League schools.

The Ivy League is Decadent and Depraved, as I have often remarked, and the reason for this depravity is simply that the Left has taken control and implemented a regime of ideological conformity, so that these campuses have become echo chambers, where never is heard a dissenting word. Occasionally, someone with faculty tenure will deviate from the Gospel of Social Justice — Amy Wax at Penn Law, for example — but these isolated heretics are swiftly purged or marginalized, since disagreement is now classified as “hate.” Because these schools now consider political indoctrination to be their primary objective, they must ensure that students are never confronted by any criticism of the Official Ideology.

The perverse idea of a world controlled by mechanisms of oppression, where victimhood is given prestige by demands for “social justice,” is now deeply rooted on elite campuses because of the political conformity that the Left has imposed not only in universities, but also in K-12 public education. If conservatives are effectively banned from university faculties, and if school teachers must obtain university degrees as credential for employment, it is predictable that the same political beliefs which prevail at Harvard will inform the curriculum and pedagogy in every public school classroom. It was perhaps not predictable that this process would ultimately result in college students chanting Hamas slogans and terrorizing Jews on campus, but now that this result has been achieved, we ought to be honest about how and why it happened.

Dara Horn and other liberal Jews are learning a bitter lesson, but many of them refuse to acknowledge how their basic worldview — their doctrinaire devotion to “social justice” — is implicated in the frightening rise of anti-Semitism at Harvard and other elite universities. Joe Biden is now pandering to Hamas because he’s afraid of losing support among Palestinians in Michigan. Can any Jew be so blind as to not see what this omen portends for the future? “The Corbynization of the Democratic Party” is too far along to be stopped now. At some point, this process will lead Jews to . . . Well, an exodus, so to speak. You can either support Israel, or you can be a Democrat. You can’t do both. And something similar could be said for the Ivy League and other elite universities. These institutions face a choice. They can either stop suppressing conservative dissent, or else they’ll be swallowed up entirely by the kind of politically motivated hatred that now expresses itself with murderous slogans borrowed from Hamas and Hezbollah. Ironic isn’t it? “Progressives” claim to be so intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us and yet, whenever they attain control anywhere — in academia, in Hollywood, in government — the results are always a disaster. Harvard University is now more anti-Semitic than a Klan rally, and it’s all because of progressives and their “social justice” ideology.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Country Girls

Posted on | March 11, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Currently on X, people are wrecking Lebanese cosmetics addict and e-thot Sameera Khan for calling noted catfish noodler Hannah Barron “masculine”, mocking her accent, and claiming that the only men who admired such “masculine women” are “gay”. I blocked her. Life’s too short to be giving attention to such losers.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Hannah Barron looking hot.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Hydrogen Boondoggle Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: Spring Ahead, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, International Womens Day, The New Look, “Kiss Me Kate”, RIP Steve Lawrence, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, Sydney Sweeney, Sooper Dooper Tuesday, Fantastic Voyage, Radical Wolfe, Resident Alien, MAGA Monday With SCOTUS, and Shogun.

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FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for March 8

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#DUUUVAL! Patriots Trading Mac Jones to Jacksonville; Now I’m a Jags Fan?

Posted on | March 10, 2024 | Comments Off on #DUUUVAL! Patriots Trading Mac Jones to Jacksonville; Now I’m a Jags Fan?

First, the news from ESPN:

The New England Patriots are finalizing a deal to trade quarterback Mac Jones to the Jacksonville Jaguars, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday.
The Patriots will receive a 2024 sixth-round pick as compensation, sources told Schefter. The trade cannot be processed until the new league year begins Wednesday and Jones passes a physical.
New England owns the No. 3 pick in the NFL draft, where many around the league expect them to select one of the top-rated quarterbacks — likely a decision between LSU’s Jayden Daniels and North Carolina’s Drake Maye.
Jones, who grew up in Jacksonville, joins his hometown team as a backup to Trevor Lawrence — the first pick in the 2021 draft. Jones was selected 15th in the 2021 draft.
Mac Jones is the second quarterback selected in the 2021 first round to be traded before the end of his rookie contract. It’s possible that Zach Wilson and Justin Fields will have that distinction this offseason as well.
Jones is expected to compete with C.J. Beathard to be Lawrence’s primary backup. Beathard is in the final year of a two-year, $4.5 million contract he signed before the 2023 season.
Beathard has started just one game in his three seasons in Jacksonville, completing 17 of 24 passes for 178 yards to lead the Jaguars to a 26-0 victory over the Carolina Panthers in Week 17 last season. That was the only win for the Jaguars in their final six games, as they finished 9-8 and failed to make the playoffs.
Lawrence had started every game of his NFL career until he missed Week 17 because of a right, throwing shoulder injury he suffered the week before in a loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Lawrence battled multiple injuries last season: a left knee sprain, an ankle sprain, a concussion and the shoulder injury. He wasn’t a full participant in any practice over the last three weeks of the season.
Jones’ three-year tenure with the Patriots began with promise, as he was selected to the Pro Bowl as an alternate in his rookie season. Jones started all 17 regular-season games as the Patriots went 10-7 and clinched a playoff berth (losing to the Buffalo Bills 47-17 in the wild-card round).
Jones was 352-of-521 for 3,801 yards with 22 touchdowns and 13 interceptions as a rookie, but his production dipped over the next two seasons. The departure of offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to become the Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach was the first of several changes — both coaching- and personnel-wise — that affected Jones’ development.

Assuming the deal is done, so is my tenure as a New England Patriots fan. When they drafted my boy from Alabama, they acquired me as a fan, and now I’ve been traded to Jacksonville, and I’m fine with that. All things considered, it’s an ideal situation for Mac. He won’t have to deal with the crazy expectations in New England, where the fans seem to think they’re entitled to be in the Super Bowl every year, and Mac Jones was always faulted for not being Tom Brady 2.0. After the last couple of rotten years in New England, Mac needs to recover his confidence, and the low expectations in Jacksonville — where they’ve never won a Super Bowl, and have only made two playoff appearances in the past 15 years — will be very helpful in that regard. Plus, he’s only expected to be the backup to golden boy Trevor Lawrence, and he should be grateful for that opportunity, given the injuries Lawrence suffered this past season.

The way the NFL is nowadays, especially with their concussion protocols, having a backup QB who’s ready to go is absolutely essential. Last year, Joe Flacco was sitting on his sofa until November, when injuries forced the Cleveland Browns to sign him and, at age 38, led them to the playoffs. One could easily envision Mac Jones getting his chance to be QB1 for the Jaguars if Lawrence gets injured again, but even if that doesn’t happen, Mac might benefit from a year or two as a backup QB before making his way back to being a starter, if not in Jacksonville, then with some other team. He’s at a crucial juncture of his career, and now has a chance to redeem his reputation. So for 2024, I say, let’s go Jags!

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FMJRA 2.0: The Shame of Life

Posted on | March 10, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Shame of Life

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Did you know Kid Rock wrote the chorus for this song? If you’ve listened to a lot of his music (and I have) it jumps right out at you, but I guess it was a big surprise for a lot of people. Wonder if he’ll ever do a cover version.
The draft in Pete’s league is over, someone finally volunteered to manage the Expos (poor bastard), and this is what my roster looks like now that the dust has settled. I think I’m going to do a little better than last year, but I don’t think the team is much better than last year when I wiped out in the first round of the playoffs.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.