Wednesday: Justin Tucker Denied

After a workout with the Saints, the disgraced former All-Pro is still unemployed.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Recently, Justin Tucker, the great kicker from the Ravens and
formerly of the Longhorns, was accused of doing the same thing.
Of course, they both admitted no wrongdoing. I thought whatever
public statements Justin Tucker was allowed to make were tempered
by his lawyer because they want you to shut up,

(00:26):
and that's just the way they want you to do things.
I've always said that a lawyer's job is to find
you not guilty. But we are such a skeptical and
cynical society that when you're found not guilty, did you
really not do it? Or did you just get off
off the case? Did you just beat the system? And
my thought is is that more people think you just

(00:47):
beat the system and they don't trust that you're actually innocent.
Why would you not?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
You know?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
And to me, then I know this goes against every
logical thing that an attorney would tell you. If you
really didn't do something, I would want to screen from
the loudest mountaintop with the largest megaphone. I did not
do this. But when one or two come out that
may have a vendetta against you, then I can understand
why there may be some skepticism whether you did touch

(01:14):
an actor or not, but when several come out, as
they did in the Deshaun Watson case, and I think
there was at least seven or eight in the Justin
Tucker situation, now the fire and the light bulb gets
a lot brighter. So he was given an opportunity to
try out for the Saints. I have no idea how
good the tryout was, but good enough. But my guess

(01:35):
is is if it wasn't overwhelmingly better than somebody else,
because they would have to deal with all this as
part of bringing him in they opted for someone else,
You're gonna have to be three or four or five
or ten times better than the guy if you've got
this reputation. And unfortunately for Justin Tucker, I'm not sure
he'll ever be able to get past this, even if

(01:56):
he never did anything, because in a way, while we
say we're innocent until proven guilty, most of us in
the court of public opinion assume that the person that's
accused of something is guilty, which is really unfair.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I'm actually a skeptic, and I don't think it's unfortunate.
I believe it's just because I believe in consequences of
our actions but in this regard the Saints kicker Billy group,
who they who they were trying to replace. He is
in bad for his career, Andy, Andy, for his career
from zero to thirty nine yards, he makes about ninety
percent of his kicks.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
When it gets forty and beyond, you know what, his
career averages sixty nine percent. It is a sharp drop.
That's why they won someone with much more long term
long kick accuracy. Now, Justin Tucker. In his final year
he only made seventy three percent of his kicks.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
So Boston Tucker's performance was going down in the last
few years. He's that kick.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Exactly, so it didn't really matter. Like obviously obviously the
workout wasn't enough given the given the backlash that would
have come from signing him to be worth it two
over to overtake the kicker they have now. So Andy,
While you might say like we can't, we can't judge
court of public opinion, the reality is that I'm of
the mind and said that while the court of public
opinion might not always be right, and I don't think

(03:05):
it's fair that if someone's accused of something so heinous,
we should automatically jump to maybe they're innocent rather until
wait to the end results.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, either way, you do all of this. I'm I'm
not sure how this works out for Justin Tucker. Here's
the deal. The people that are working at these spas
that are massage therapists, they're there to make you better.
It's a therapeutic thing. It's medical. It's not for your
unquote quote pleasure. Don't do that. Don't be that guy.

(03:32):
They're there to help you get better and get you
back to kicking or whatever it was that they were
giving you a massage for. Leave them alone, let them
do their job and going about their business, and you're
a kicker, kip them well,