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Dak Prescott apologizes for his comments about fans throwing objects at officials

Posted by Mike Florio on January 18, 2022, 8:04 PM EST

On Sunday, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott did the wrong thing, condoning fans throwing objects at game officials. On Tuesday, Dak did the right thing, apologizing for his remarks.

“I deeply regret the comments I made regarding the officials after the game on Sunday,” Prescott said on Twitter. “I was caught up in the emotion of a disappointing loss and my words were uncalled for and unfair. . . . I hold the NFL Officials in the highest regard and have always respected their professionalism and the difficulty of their jobs. The safety of everyone who attends a game or participates on the field of a sporting event is a very serious matter. . . . That was a mistake on my behalf, and I am sorry.”

Dak’s apology comes in the wake of a strong statement from the NBA Referees Association criticizing his words.

Good move by Dak to walk back what he said and to apologize. No one should throw items at anyone during sporting events, for any reason. Dak spoke out in frustration. Two days later, he cleaned up the mess.
 

Dak Prescott apologizes for his comments about fans throwing objects at officials

Posted by Mike Florio on January 18, 2022, 8:04 PM EST

On Sunday, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott did the wrong thing, condoning fans throwing objects at game officials. On Tuesday, Dak did the right thing, apologizing for his remarks.

“I deeply regret the comments I made regarding the officials after the game on Sunday,” Prescott said on Twitter. “I was caught up in the emotion of a disappointing loss and my words were uncalled for and unfair. . . . I hold the NFL Officials in the highest regard and have always respected their professionalism and the difficulty of their jobs. The safety of everyone who attends a game or participates on the field of a sporting event is a very serious matter. . . . That was a mistake on my behalf, and I am sorry.”

Dak’s apology comes in the wake of a strong statement from the NBA Referees Association criticizing his words.

Good move by Dak to walk back what he said and to apologize. No one should throw items at anyone during sporting events, for any reason. Dak spoke out in frustration. Two days later, he cleaned up the mess.

😅 this would have been drafted by his agent or whoever like 30mins after he ****ed up.

Was always coming, holds little weight on it's own on twitter this late.
 
😅 this would have been drafted by his agent or whoever like 30mins after he f’ed up.

Was always coming, holds little weight on it's own on twitter this late.

Form retraction:

Dear (insert name of aggreaved),

My action (insert publically criticised action) is inexcusable and (insert lame reasoning for weak state of mind excuse).

I respect (insert reverse perspective for the criticsed action).

Thanks

Signed
Self Entitled Sports "Star"
 

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Reddit....

An ESPN article on the subject mentioned he was involved in an ATV accident and sustained serious head trauma; this was before his first season. I do not know the character of the dude before the accident, but since then he’s committed a lot of random crimes. The kind someone in the NFL wouldn’t typically commit.

Personality changes can happen after serious head trauma. But he could be on drugs too.
 

Malik McDowell “doesn’t remember anything” of altercation, mentor says

Posted by Curtis Crabtree on January 19, 2022, 10:51 PM EST

Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell was arrested earlier this week after being naked in public outside of a preschool in Florida and then attacking police officers that attempted to intervene.

Via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, McDowell’s mentor and high school football coach, Reggie Wynns, says McDowell told him he remembers nothing of the incident that led him to end up back in jail.
“He said he doesn’t remember anything,” Wynns said. “He doesn’t remember nothing. He was so emotional. It had me in tears, because he was trying, trying, trying so hard.”

TMZ Sports obtained video of McDowell working out a gym close to where they incident took place. It shows him acting normally and engaging with others in the gym throughout. He returned to his hotel near the gym to shower and then left again, this time without clothes with some erratic behavior reported to have followed.

McDowell walked down the street naked, laid down in the road, resisted arrest and assaulted an officer before being taken into custody.

Via Local 10 news, in a preliminary court a lawyer representing McDowell said that “somebody may have slipped him something or given him something that he wasn’t aware of, which explains some of this bizarre behavior.”

Wynns agreed with that possibility.

“I don’t know if someone laced him or what,” Wynns said. “I don’t know. That’s not him at all. All I’m hoping is that when they test him, they figure out that he had been drugged.

“You don’t do a great job for 17 games starting for the Cleveland Browns and then go to a training facility, and then you’re walking down the street [naked] and doing what he did. That doesn’t make sense to me.”

McDowell had just completed his first season of play in the NFL four years after he was initially drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in 2017. An ATV accident ahead of training camp left him with serious head and facial injuries that led to him never being cleared by doctors to play in two years in Seattle.

McDowell has had several run-ins with law enforcement as well, including a September 2017 DUI and a December 2017 allegation of disorderly conduct. In February 2019, he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, resisting arrest, and assault.

McDowell started 14 of 15 games played for the Browns this season with 33 tackles, 3.0 sacks, a pass defended and a fumble recovery.
 

Browns DT Malik McDowell was arrested on charges of aggravated battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and exposing sex organs in public Monday in Deerfield Beach, Fla.​

McDowell was roaming around outside of a school fully naked and eventually got into a fight with police after the came to arrest him. There's obviously something very wrong with McDowell's mental state. He was tasered by officers on scene and booked under the above charges. The 25-year-old former second-round pick of the Seahawks got a second chance with the Browns this season after he spent 11 months in jail for assaulting a police officer. His short-lived career is likely over.

SOURCE: TMZ Sports
Jan 19, 2022, 4:36 PM ET
 

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