DeAndre Baker Gets Bail
It is kinda funny how things turn out sometimes. The draft really is a crapshoot. Last year, the Giants made 3 picks in the first round. Daniel Jones, made with pick #6, was pretty much roundly panned. He’s got a ways to go but he certainly wasn’t awful last season, maybe due to those low expectations. He showed enough promise to at least give us reason to wait and see. Dexter Lawrence, picked at #17, was seen as a weird choice as we didn’t really need a DT compared to other positions. Sexy Dexy was great last season and probably the best rookie on the team. The last pick, which the Giants actually traded up for, was DeAndre Baker, the CB out of Georgia. He was a highly touted prospect and seen as easily the Giants only good choice in the draft.
He got his ass smoked, slept in meetings, and is now a criminal who may not even be on the team after this! Hooray!
I mean what the hell. It actually felt like it had been a while since some idiot player got in serious criminal trouble so maybe we were due. After all, how can people continue to stereotype the entire league as “Bad people” based on the actions of one or two if nobody is doing bad stuff? Earl Thomas was a douche but he wasn’t doing the crimes. We needed a new NFL scumbag scapegoat to arise and thankfully Mr Baker and his buddy Quinton Dunbar have stepped up admirably.
Armed robbery! Stealing and riding sweet getaway cars! Not social distancing whatsoever! This case has plenty of spice. If you look at his twitter you might even see his most recent tweet from September, in what I can only assume is his sweet escape vehicle. A part of me wanted to believe that my good man was pulling a Robin Hood but something tells me he wasn’t giving those fancy watches to poor orphans like a Lamborghini Santa Claus.
This story is still clearly in the early stages though, so I assume over time more will come out. If stories change, there are plenty of ways he might avoid legal issues but if it drags on I don’t see him avoiding a suspension and if any of it is true, there is a decent chance he gets released and ends up on the Cowboys because, well, (gestures at Jerry Jones). Of course now witnesses are recanting stories suspiciously like they got paid off or something! My friends, this could get fun or fizzle out in a hurry. Since we’re all stuck in pandemic purgatory, let’s hope the spice keeps flowing.
Also former Giant Cody Lattimer also did a gun crime and is also in trouble. Good week. Just…great stuff everybody.
Ah, too bad you wrote this before Ed Oliver got busted. lol
Alright, where’d a guy fresh out of the can get a gun? I call shenanigans!
I’d think your first concern would be how he’s talking about not having enough cash to bail himself out, after getting bailed out.
Huh, I didn’t think of that. I figured Dunbar paid it, but if that were the case he wouldn’t have asked how much it was.
Ed Oliver got picked up yesterday too, for a DWI and some kind of stupid gun stuff (unregistered or carrying without a license, something like that). Apparently everyone is going stir crazy during the pandemic and some are going a little crazier than others.
The one with Latimer sounds like it could be the worst of the three. Without details coming out, based on what he was charged with (reckless endangerment, firing inside city limits, aggravated menacing, but not anything DV related or attempted murder), it sounds like he got into an argument with someone in his apartment and fired off a warning shot.
Turns out Latimer’s dustup was over a gambling issue too. The police report said he got mad at someone during a poker game and fired a warning shot.
I like Pat McAfee’s take on this thing. TL;DW is that it’s a simple case of gambling gone wrong
This is why post draft grades are the most useless articles ever written. NFL teams can barely assess these players. The idea that journalists can some accurately grade the choices they’ve made before the players even see the field is laughable
Still a less offensive crime than those Rams Jerseys
THIS ^^^
10/10
Dave! Why is Dunbar still sporting a Redskins jersey? Rivera somehow got a peek into Evil Bill’s crystal ball and knew he was trash, so he sent him off to Seattle in a (what felt like it a the time) trash deal that now resembles
…resembles clairvoyance
I almost did draw a Hawks jersey, but something tells me he might not ever actually wear one, and I wanted a color contrast between him and Baker
Do you really gotta jump so hard on the “he did it and is guilty and is paying off the witnesses” train??
That’s already the line in 99% of the internet echo chamber, and yet everything since the original story broke is pointing to his innocence.
With the witnesses (who were the only evidence that this ever happened) changing their tune, I’d say it’s just as likely they made the whole thing up to extort him. That seems a lot more believable to me than an NFL player on a 1st round contract who has never committed a crime in his life… suddenly doin a little armed robbery for 70k.
Sure, he may 100% have been a total dumbass and then gotten to buy his way out of it with some bribes & a fancy lawyer. That seemed pretty believable to me 72 hours ago. But let’s not pronounce anything yet.
Just to be clear, comic was A+. It’s a wild story and needs a funny comic making fun of it.
But jumping on the “he did it and paid off the witnesses” bandwagon in your blog, and so flippantly, given the last few days of development, seems kinda classless. Innocent til proven guilty is actually a pretty important principle, especially in this volatile and reaction-driven time.
Let’s just not assume anything yet.
However this ends up, it will be a ridiculous and memorable part of an otherwise very bleak offseason. I really needed a story like that to come through the wires last week, and all the developments have been just as glorious….
Dude had 5 witnesses swear he robbed the place.
5.
The people he “allegedly” robbed.
Changed their god damn statements saying he didn’t do it.
What the actual hell, one or two giving conflicting information or saying “I’m not 100% sure” but all five redacting their statements from the police is straight up what. They either lied, were coerced by the police into lying, took a bribe, or told the truth and back tracked because the prosecutor screwed up protection. Or they’re all scared of the dude who robbed them.
There are a lot of possibilities here multiplied by 5, all 5 retracting their statements puts thems at risk of perjury charges for lying to the police.
I don’t think he paid them off I think either the prosecutor didn’t offer protection or the witnesses were just scared by this scumbag.
Newest info today:
– Cops were called 2 hours after he left
– He was not carrying a gun at the party
There’s two possibilities here: an NFL player risked his entire life for 1% of what he makes a year… or a small group of no-names tried extort someone earning 100x what they do
Sure, it’s completely possible he did it and is covering his tracks. But literally every piece of information since the initial news story points to it all being just another punk extortion scheme.
It’s scary to know that people like you read 1 headline and then decide the Truth without being open to new info. Well, I guess you’re open to new info, as long as you can twist it to support your first Truth. “witnesses were just scared by this scumbag” good grief… civilization has trials for a reason.
Dave– now do you see what was concerning about with your quick judgement on a public platform? You have power with this comic, and you almost always use it responsibly 🙂
Did neither of ya’ll read the last paragraph where I fully admit the story is in the early stages and plenty of more information could come out after I made this comic