Twitter Mailbag: Wide Receiver Edition
From @brookman_doug: does it seem like DJax is just messing around constantly?
DeSean Jackson can’t be painted with a single brush. He is a complex character and a pretty fascinating study. If you are just going off Instagram or Twitter, then you’ll probably associate Jackson with Jaccpot and Vegas and frivolous spending. If you see him in the locker room during the season, you may be greeted with a scowl and a cold shoulder. If you watch the documentary, you will see a kid that has been rigorously training for this job since he was in Pop Warner, and realize that his family pushed him really hard.
If you saw him at the screening of his brother’s movie [The Making of a Father’s Dream]
a couple weeks back, you would notice that his scowl was nowhere to be found, and that his rebel image gave way to that of a considerate, thoughtful family man. You would have witnessed him throwing his arm around Tom Seagraves, who is in the middle of a battle with pancreatic cancer, while offering him words of encouragement.
DeSean Jackson and Tom Seagraves, Pancreatic Cancer Survivor & Friend
So no, I don’t think Jackson messes around constantly. I think he messes around, sometimes too much. I think he is the rebel, and the family man; the kid who loves the game and the kid who feels burdened by it. He has all sorts of sides to him.
[Reprinted by The DeSean Jackson Foundation, 6/21/2013, 7:19 P.M.]
DeSean Jackson Foundation 