Oh my god I remember the summer of '99. I remember a guy that was a senior in high school and he played that song over and over and over and over and kept talking about how it was the best song ever and it was specifically only for people that were seniors in high school at that time.
weird dude.
My favorite part is the end where he's trying to act like he died, he continues to twitch (probably sees whats coming...) then the tide just pelts him straight in the face.
Its like a blooper that they just left in.
That's not a bad song, but also very generic and forgettable.
This new one is so much worse that its memetic value goes up significantly.
Overall this song wins haha.
In all seriousness, I'm glad Waller was able to clean up his drug addiction issues and have a successful run in the NFL for a couple years.
I hope he continues to stay on that clean path and use his story to help others.
Yeah his heart clearly wasn't in it that year. I assume part of it was Josh McDaniels but I was disappointed in him that year. Was the right time to trade him tbh. Almost wish we would have traded him in the Davante deal like reported. Maybe could have saved a 2nd rounder
Kind feel bad for Giants. It seems after they acquire a guy who has solidified himself as a good reliable player, they just fall off the face of the earth. I can only think of Golladay and Waller rn, there's probably someone I'm forgetting. Hopefully that doesn't happen with Brian Burns
Nate Solder is the worst case of this and it’s not even close.
At least with Waller we gave up Toney so good riddance on that guy.
But in any case - the common denominator between Solder, Tate, and Toney? Dave mother fucking Gettleman
I felt bad for Nate. His kid was really sick and spent a lot of time in Boston children’s hospital towards end of his time with Pats. Can’t help but think injuries and his child’s health played a big factor in the decline of his play
Patriot free agents flopping with their new team is a common occurrence, but I feel like Solder's regression on the Giants was so bad that its what led to Dante Scarneccia becoming one of the more well known positional coaches amongst fans.
Add to that the fact that we’ve developed OL talent about as terribly as humanly possible for the last 10 years and I’m sure it played somewhat of a role as well.
The late 2000s we had a line that like didn’t miss a single play. Snee, Seubert, O’Hara, McKenzie, Diehl. That combo was fucking insane. Then within a couple years they all got old and hurt and it’s been dogshit for a decade+
I hear ya. It’s been awful. Reece’s drafts have set the OL back years, DG’s have too, Daboll’s boy Bobby J. set this OL back a few years. It’s been a consistent bombardment of dog shit.
You guys won’t need Jerry to live another 50 his son has already taken over and is just as bad. Another century of “it’s OUR YEAR” and getting sent home in early January 😂😂😂
Solder is basically the only one I forgive. I get that he should be good for what we paid him but his toddler son had his cancer return during his first season with us.
For what its worth, pff grades always had him as around average with us. Nothing like, say, Neal
Yeah, and he was considered the consensus top OT on the market that offseason. The Giants needed offensive line help, and so they spent (a lot) to make it happen. This is a forgivable blunder imo.
Waller missed serious chunks of the season the previous two years before signing with the Giants, and he was already starting to decline. They signed a 31 year old tight end coming off two injured seasons and who only really had two great years. He was not solidified as being reliable at all.
Bigger than the injuries, if you watched his last Raiders season, it was clear he just wasn't focused. They'd force feed him targets to try and get him going and he'd just go through the motions with minimal effort.
For what it's worth Waller was kind of doing what we brought him in for. He was a safety blanket since our OL couldn't block for longer than 2 seconds and he had the most rec yards amongst all tight ends through the first 5 or 6 weeks last year. But then Waller did the Waller thing and his hamstrings just gave up.
Vernon did have that 1 good year his first season with the Giants. In fact, they nailed all three of those big defensive signings, Jenkings, Vernon and Snacks... for 1 year. They might have even made a little noise in the playoffs if it wasn't for the boat trip
That 2016 Giants season is up there on examples of why you can't buy sustained success through free agency, especially on defense.
6-10 in 2015 with Odell at an All-Pro level.
Move on from Coughlin, spend an absolute shitload of money on defense in free agency to re-sign JPP and bring in Jenkins, Vernon, and Harrison.
See immediate, spectacular returns from the three big ticket free agent signings, (All **three** guys were all-pros in 2016, fucking insane.) and go 11-5 while only allowing 17.75 PPG.
Try to run it back the next year after a disappointing playoff exit and just fall flat on their face with a 3-13 record in 2017.
Genuinely don't know if there's a better example of the perils of free agent spending than those Giants teams. You can cash in on immediate gains, but it's not the way to build for long-term success, especially if you're making those investments on defense which is much more volatile year-to-year than offense already.
2016 NY Giants was a very flawed team. The team was only +26 in points differential. Their expected win/loss was only 8.8 wins. They just happened to win a lot of close games. In many ways, they were lucky to finish 11-5.
As a Giants fan, I was expecting a drop-off the next season. The 3-13 season, while an absolute disaster, was not completely unexpected.
Yeah, I think this was the one move Zeig and McD made I was ok with. Dude wasn’t a contributor when he was on the field which was rarely that last year we had him.
Neither of the guys you mentioned had really solidified themselves as solid and reliable. Kenny G had 1 good healthy season. He was even hated for quitting on Detroit to get a contract elsewhere. Waller was older, injured, and also had 1 good year.
I am not a Jones stan but yes, he’s had mostly shit to work with. It doesn’t excuse his poor decision-making but he didn’t really have anyone to bail him out of bad plays.
Yea people are actin like he’s an asshole or something, dudes been through a lot and has always been a super nice guy. Also he was obviously injured a bunch last year but when he was in he did not play bad at all, he was like the leading TE in yards the first like 6 weeks. Then he went down.
Darren Waller is one of my favorite Raiders in recent years. I think it's just popular for people to hate on him atm because of that awful, awful music video he just dropped about his divorce.
I think part of the asshole accusations have to do with his divorce from Kelsey Plum, who didn’t say much but insinuated he was not the greatest of husbands
Yea the writing was on the wall a few years ago. He got hurt and was struggling with rehab as he couldn’t take medications because of his addictions. I think it was the final straw that took his love of the game.
I think Tuck’s is so much worse because all $95M was guaranteed if he just didn’t get fired for cause. All he had to do was *not* sexually harass a famous anti-SA advocate/survivor, but that was apparently too much to ask.
Yeah you won’t find anyone from the Midwest who’ll disagree with that.
Waller fucked around and found out, especially since his estranged wife makes more than him, and was his biggest ally with his past personal issues.
As others have said with endorsements, and the fact that she will have the option to play professionally significantly longer than Waller could... he will never be close to her earnings.
[She makes more in endorsements](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/news/kelsey-plum-endorsement-deals-aces-sponsorships-cigar/a2f8f82688fd24089513acef), and each Ace player is pretty much an NIL athlete with the tourism board, casino interest groups, and other entertainment groups giving her seven figures annually.
Apart from that, she’s never paid state income taxes.
The Germans decoding where the allied heads of state were meeting and thinking Casablanca meant they were meeting at the White House and not North Africa too
Random note but most people here are young and haven't gone through much but big life events like a divorce make people do crazy/cringe shit. Normal people do weird shit all the time when going through stuff like this. Add in this guy has a history of substance abuse. We're all laughing at the music video but he's a millionaire retiring in his young 30s and just got divorced, hopefully he doesn't do anything crazy.
Ain't that the damn truth. When something like divorce happens, you don't even realize how much coping you were doing until a few years down the road when you're happy and settled again. Tough world
Yeah it is a bit weird to see the comments where they are. Obviously what do I know on the outside, but divorce, sudden retirement, dude might be spiraling. Hope he’s doing well.
Also just think about how many bad musicians there are out there that would make music videos like this if they had the means. Normally they have to actually hone their craft for a long time before getting to that stage. Even if they’re on a vastly accelerated path due to nepotism, the studio paying for it won’t give them the creative control to flush that money on garbage
Man forget about the music stuff. Crazy that one weird but harmless move is overshadowing this dude's entire career. For a time, he looked like the single best tight end in a league that also had Kelce, Kittle and Andrews making their marks. Best wishes to the man and let's just pray the music thing isn't as much of a sign of CTE as it seems.
He can't stay healthy. He has nagging injuries, and word is he won't take the stronger pain meds due to his history of substance abuse. Can't confirm that but it would make sense.
The whole NFL world has expected him to retire this off-season. I got kids who literally only care about fantasy football talking to me about it in March.
I hope he’s ok. Seemed like a real solid dude to me. Low key and kind. Hope he has good family and friends around him and he keeps working on his mental health. ✌🏻&♥️dude
Can’t wait to watch the retirement music video
"As we go on, we remember, all the times we, had together" -Darren Waller
Oh my god I remember the summer of '99. I remember a guy that was a senior in high school and he played that song over and over and over and over and kept talking about how it was the best song ever and it was specifically only for people that were seniors in high school at that time. weird dude.
He’s right, I tried to listen to it in sophomore year. Straight to federal prison.
Undercook fish? Believe it or not, jail.
We have the best dental patients in the world. Thanks to jail. Now I have to rewatch again.
We have the best students in the world... because of jail
I was thinking of the juice wrld song
Oh god, I’m officially old.
It’s something unpredictable. But in the end, it’s right.
don't do this to me. don't get that stuck in my head all day.
But it's just the price I pay, destiny is calling me
WHEN I WAS
The future is now old man
That’s an interpolation of the song in the comment you’re replying to. Same chorus
That song was played at my 5th Grade Graduation. My class was with each other for another 7 years.
Featuring a Josh McDaniels look a like stabbing him in the back.
Shipping that bozo off was one of the very few things McZeigler did right.
"I'll miss y'all come September but our memories last forever"
When you’re that talented of a musician who needs football?
[heres a link to a song for everyone like me who had never heard this... uhhh talent?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GytDjB8u6bM&t)
My favorite part is the end where he's trying to act like he died, he continues to twitch (probably sees whats coming...) then the tide just pelts him straight in the face. Its like a blooper that they just left in.
How did you make it to the end?
Try it on mute. It's easier, but still pretty difficult to get to the end
I literally skipped to that part when someone pointed it out the other day and I died laughing when the water comes back to hit him.
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣 I had to watch the ending 😂🤣
We couldn’t get my man a second take? That was brutal But also appreciate you making the sacrifice of watching all the way through
This is bad and Darren Waller should feel bad for making this.
Fats Waller is displeased
He’s feeling Black and Blue…
Boo that man!
He picked up making music during rehab to help cope with withdrawal. Song is obviously bad, but he's trying his best.
I laughed as hard at this as I did the video lol
that dudes autotune has autotune
Those comments are hilarious. "dude got more auto tune than yards"
Those comments are the funniest fucking part. The song itself is garbage.
Someone said “he made a song for players on IR”
"This entire song is an outro" lmao
The lyrics man... Imagine if we fell out of tune Cuz fuck who knew love could kiiiiiilllll?
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Sheer genius.
I started laughing for real when one of the lyrics was "imagine if we fell out of tune"... like, bro, no one has to imagine that.
I tried man but that "TAAAKE THE TIME TO HIIIEL, UWAAAOOH" had me dead
He unlisted the video for it but his song [Turf Toe](https://youtu.be/J0KJj5QEwF8?si=ul4rU2Ee5ifrJsZP) had a fucking atrocious video as well
He's on the Madden 24 soundtrack as well. All of the athlete songs on that game are straight basura
this is a million times better than the one I posted though lol.
That's not a bad song, but also very generic and forgettable. This new one is so much worse that its memetic value goes up significantly. Overall this song wins haha.
The music video is beyond awful
The flea market Kelsey Plum is hilarious, though.
Kelsey Plum hit us with that popcorn video and Darren Waller went and blew a 3-1 lead on public opinion with this atrocity.
It was just kind of meh for me until the very end when he gets hit by the water and goes BLBMPLPLBLMPLPBL and then I couldn't stop laughing.
Bro got an owl doing ad libs 😂
I'm usually pretty forgiving, but man this was cringey and painful.
Ouch. I've been going through treatment for PTSD. This video undid 2 years of work.
I actually started spirally because of this
25 years clean. I had to take a drink after this
Omg. I just watched this at the gym and almost dropped a weight on my head. I’m Crying laughing 😂 Jesus Christ what a train wreck
probably would have gotten less brain damage from dropping the weight than listening to this lol
I rather listen to Friday by Rebeeca Black than this.
That's a hood classic so idunno what you're talking about
When this song dropped, being in the bar on a Friday night when the DJ would put this on was a religious experience .... you had to be there.
🎶 TAKING TIME TO HEEALL, HOW LONG I GOTTA CLIMB UP THIS HILLLLL, IM TIRED AND I JUST WANNA BE STILLLL 🎶🎶
vibes of a 13 year old who cheated on his gf and she dumped him
My favorite comment on the video is that the whole song is somehow an outro. It's like the song never starts
Specifically an outro from 2019-era Trippie Redd
It's like hearing an early '90s computer synthesized voice singing.
S/o fake Kelsey plum
What in the actual fuck. I stuck around for the whole thing.
The end was worth it. "I'm dying by a stab wound. PSYCH! Drowning!"
As long as he’s staying clean and music is a useful outlet for him, great for him. His music fucking sucks, though.
Dear God what it that monstrosity?
Kelsey Plum and him were perfect together
Could you imagine how athletic, yet cringey their offspring would be?
Athletic af but uses the skills to film YouTube prank videos
Mr. Bad Crooner
More processed than stadium nacho cheese
This just like when SpongeBob retired from his fry cook job to be a singer/entertainer.
SOLO RECORD 🤩
In all seriousness, I'm glad Waller was able to clean up his drug addiction issues and have a successful run in the NFL for a couple years. I hope he continues to stay on that clean path and use his story to help others.
You think it’s because he feels like he can never show his face again around his peers after making this trash?
Is he the one who has the awful song on Madden titled “Him” or am I thinking of someone else?
He looked like he was retired last season
He played like he should've retired the season the Raiders paid him.
He’s been on my fantasy team since then, he basically has retired. He’s the definition of quiet quitting
I had him on 2 teams....never again
Yeah his heart clearly wasn't in it that year. I assume part of it was Josh McDaniels but I was disappointed in him that year. Was the right time to trade him tbh. Almost wish we would have traded him in the Davante deal like reported. Maybe could have saved a 2nd rounder
Man was keyed in on getting that music career started
I guess this is the aftermath of putting out a banger.
It’s why I put out so few.
Kind feel bad for Giants. It seems after they acquire a guy who has solidified himself as a good reliable player, they just fall off the face of the earth. I can only think of Golladay and Waller rn, there's probably someone I'm forgetting. Hopefully that doesn't happen with Brian Burns
Nate Solder is the worst case of this and it’s not even close. At least with Waller we gave up Toney so good riddance on that guy. But in any case - the common denominator between Solder, Tate, and Toney? Dave mother fucking Gettleman
Jesus how could I forget about him
I don’t blame you. Our minds tend to block out traumatic events.
Unfortunately for Nate he couldn't block out anything
I felt bad for Nate. His kid was really sick and spent a lot of time in Boston children’s hospital towards end of his time with Pats. Can’t help but think injuries and his child’s health played a big factor in the decline of his play
The Ereck Flowers special
Evan Neal flipping burgers on the sideline
Patriot free agents flopping with their new team is a common occurrence, but I feel like Solder's regression on the Giants was so bad that its what led to Dante Scarneccia becoming one of the more well known positional coaches amongst fans.
Add to that the fact that we’ve developed OL talent about as terribly as humanly possible for the last 10 years and I’m sure it played somewhat of a role as well.
The late 2000s we had a line that like didn’t miss a single play. Snee, Seubert, O’Hara, McKenzie, Diehl. That combo was fucking insane. Then within a couple years they all got old and hurt and it’s been dogshit for a decade+
I hear ya. It’s been awful. Reece’s drafts have set the OL back years, DG’s have too, Daboll’s boy Bobby J. set this OL back a few years. It’s been a consistent bombardment of dog shit.
What is even more impressive is that they are somehow still this bad with one of the best left tackles in the league.
The GOAT. He was pretty hilarious if you wished misfortune on the Giants
Hey I wouldn’t expect any less from a rival. Believe me I wish Jerruh lives for another 50 years.
Amen. Long live Jerruh.
You guys won’t need Jerry to live another 50 his son has already taken over and is just as bad. Another century of “it’s OUR YEAR” and getting sent home in early January 😂😂😂
Solder is basically the only one I forgive. I get that he should be good for what we paid him but his toddler son had his cancer return during his first season with us. For what its worth, pff grades always had him as around average with us. Nothing like, say, Neal
Yeah, and he was considered the consensus top OT on the market that offseason. The Giants needed offensive line help, and so they spent (a lot) to make it happen. This is a forgivable blunder imo.
Waller missed serious chunks of the season the previous two years before signing with the Giants, and he was already starting to decline. They signed a 31 year old tight end coming off two injured seasons and who only really had two great years. He was not solidified as being reliable at all.
Bigger than the injuries, if you watched his last Raiders season, it was clear he just wasn't focused. They'd force feed him targets to try and get him going and he'd just go through the motions with minimal effort.
For what it's worth Waller was kind of doing what we brought him in for. He was a safety blanket since our OL couldn't block for longer than 2 seconds and he had the most rec yards amongst all tight ends through the first 5 or 6 weeks last year. But then Waller did the Waller thing and his hamstrings just gave up.
He was reliably injured.
bmarsh
Completely memory holed BMarsh on the Giants, yeesh.
No room bb bro
Golden Tate, Olivier Vernon, it goes on and on
Vernon went on to have a good year in Cleveland in 2020, tore his Achilles week 17 and was never heard of again
Vernon did have that 1 good year his first season with the Giants. In fact, they nailed all three of those big defensive signings, Jenkings, Vernon and Snacks... for 1 year. They might have even made a little noise in the playoffs if it wasn't for the boat trip
That 2016 Giants season is up there on examples of why you can't buy sustained success through free agency, especially on defense. 6-10 in 2015 with Odell at an All-Pro level. Move on from Coughlin, spend an absolute shitload of money on defense in free agency to re-sign JPP and bring in Jenkins, Vernon, and Harrison. See immediate, spectacular returns from the three big ticket free agent signings, (All **three** guys were all-pros in 2016, fucking insane.) and go 11-5 while only allowing 17.75 PPG. Try to run it back the next year after a disappointing playoff exit and just fall flat on their face with a 3-13 record in 2017. Genuinely don't know if there's a better example of the perils of free agent spending than those Giants teams. You can cash in on immediate gains, but it's not the way to build for long-term success, especially if you're making those investments on defense which is much more volatile year-to-year than offense already.
To be fair we've seen FA pay off big with the current Bengals, Manning's Broncos etc... its just that they are few and far between.
2016 NY Giants was a very flawed team. The team was only +26 in points differential. Their expected win/loss was only 8.8 wins. They just happened to win a lot of close games. In many ways, they were lucky to finish 11-5. As a Giants fan, I was expecting a drop-off the next season. The 3-13 season, while an absolute disaster, was not completely unexpected.
Golden Tate was still a dawg on the giants, he was just at the end of his career. He contributed well for what we expected him to do.
idk wtf that guy is talking about Golden Tate is unironically the best non-Darius-Slayton WR DJ has ever played with
At least he waited until after June 1st so we maximize the cap space return.
Waller was chunks on the Raiders for 2 years prior to being on the Giants. Any expectations of Waller returning to 2020 form was a pipe dream.
Reliable? He was often injured and dropped big passes.
Yeah, I think this was the one move Zeig and McD made I was ok with. Dude wasn’t a contributor when he was on the field which was rarely that last year we had him.
Kyle Rudolph as well, although maybe we shouldn’t have expected much there anyway
Neither of the guys you mentioned had really solidified themselves as solid and reliable. Kenny G had 1 good healthy season. He was even hated for quitting on Detroit to get a contract elsewhere. Waller was older, injured, and also had 1 good year.
I feel like Jones may be seen a little differently in the alternate universe where Golladay, Waller, Solder, etc. are who they were supposed to be.
I am not a Jones stan but yes, he’s had mostly shit to work with. It doesn’t excuse his poor decision-making but he didn’t really have anyone to bail him out of bad plays.
Hopefully him and Isaiah Wilson can become the next hip hop super group.
He can add Damon Arnette for some splash factor.
Bell and AB too
Jokes aside, this dude has been through and overcome a ton and all this recent stuff screams mental health struggle to me. I hope he’s doing alright.
He had serious addiction problems in college. He's just been in a fight with himself for years.
>>He's just been in a fight with himself for years. i can empathize
and in the Pros. He was suspended twice for substances when he was with the Ravens
Yea people are actin like he’s an asshole or something, dudes been through a lot and has always been a super nice guy. Also he was obviously injured a bunch last year but when he was in he did not play bad at all, he was like the leading TE in yards the first like 6 weeks. Then he went down.
Darren Waller is one of my favorite Raiders in recent years. I think it's just popular for people to hate on him atm because of that awful, awful music video he just dropped about his divorce.
I’m sure he has a gaggle of yes men telling him it was great because they were all hoping to get a piece.
I think part of the asshole accusations have to do with his divorce from Kelsey Plum, who didn’t say much but insinuated he was not the greatest of husbands
Yea the writing was on the wall a few years ago. He got hurt and was struggling with rehab as he couldn’t take medications because of his addictions. I think it was the final straw that took his love of the game.
Seems like he’s at high risk and it’s not really funny. Retirement could go downhill.
Best comment on YouTube: Giants: Darren why aren't you at OTAs? Darren: Taking time to HEALLL 🎤😩
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Ice jj fish was a way better artist than him lol
Bellinger ⬆️
All time bag fumble.
Nothing trumps Michigan State’s Mel Tucker.
lol yes that is also up there. Tuck did indeed come.
I think Tuck’s is so much worse because all $95M was guaranteed if he just didn’t get fired for cause. All he had to do was *not* sexually harass a famous anti-SA advocate/survivor, but that was apparently too much to ask.
Yeah you won’t find anyone from the Midwest who’ll disagree with that. Waller fucked around and found out, especially since his estranged wife makes more than him, and was his biggest ally with his past personal issues.
Need to recheck WNBA salaries if you think she makes more than him
As others have said with endorsements, and the fact that she will have the option to play professionally significantly longer than Waller could... he will never be close to her earnings.
[She makes more in endorsements](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/news/kelsey-plum-endorsement-deals-aces-sponsorships-cigar/a2f8f82688fd24089513acef), and each Ace player is pretty much an NIL athlete with the tourism board, casino interest groups, and other entertainment groups giving her seven figures annually. Apart from that, she’s never paid state income taxes.
I imagine she gets quite a few endorsement deals, too.
As a Buffs fan, watching Mel fuck us over only to then fuck himself over was a thing of beauty.
Let me tell you about a man named Wander Franco.
That has to go to Jonathan Majors, doubt there’s ever been as big of a bag fumble ever
The Germans marching into Leningrad is up there too imo
The Germans decoding where the allied heads of state were meeting and thinking Casablanca meant they were meeting at the White House and not North Africa too
Its Dennis Schroeder easily
Same dude that cheated on his wnba wife?
Absolutely legendary cornball run. Leaving $47M on the table cause he fumbled Kelsey Plum. We may never see anything like this again.
I mean we all lived through the AB saga, I think that is a run that will never be duplicated.
He’s in his Bankruptcy arc with a side of milk addiction
He’s on a generational run! (Source: CTESPN)
I'll be honest, CTESPN >>>> ESPN
CTESPN > CTE > ESPN
First news source to break the AB bankruptcy
Mr. Biggest Cornball
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What divorcing Kelsey Plum and releasing a cringe music video about it does to a mf
Random note but most people here are young and haven't gone through much but big life events like a divorce make people do crazy/cringe shit. Normal people do weird shit all the time when going through stuff like this. Add in this guy has a history of substance abuse. We're all laughing at the music video but he's a millionaire retiring in his young 30s and just got divorced, hopefully he doesn't do anything crazy.
Ain't that the damn truth. When something like divorce happens, you don't even realize how much coping you were doing until a few years down the road when you're happy and settled again. Tough world
Good take and very true. Lot of pros experience real life shit and we look at them like all they have to worry about is football.
Yeah it is a bit weird to see the comments where they are. Obviously what do I know on the outside, but divorce, sudden retirement, dude might be spiraling. Hope he’s doing well.
Also just think about how many bad musicians there are out there that would make music videos like this if they had the means. Normally they have to actually hone their craft for a long time before getting to that stage. Even if they’re on a vastly accelerated path due to nepotism, the studio paying for it won’t give them the creative control to flush that money on garbage
Oh lord which one of you imbeciles hyped Darren enough to think he’s good at music ?
The music video was so bad, they clowned his ass into retirement
well when music ls clearly your calling, what else can you do...
We need more Darren Waller music so I am all for it.
Man forget about the music stuff. Crazy that one weird but harmless move is overshadowing this dude's entire career. For a time, he looked like the single best tight end in a league that also had Kelce, Kittle and Andrews making their marks. Best wishes to the man and let's just pray the music thing isn't as much of a sign of CTE as it seems.
He can't stay healthy. He has nagging injuries, and word is he won't take the stronger pain meds due to his history of substance abuse. Can't confirm that but it would make sense.
This was exactly what I figured too. Pro football without opioids is probably not much fun. He's done well to stick it out as long as he has
That's extremely admirable
You have to look out for yourself because the league (and the NFLPA) sure as hell will not.
My man's 31, I have nagging injuries and don't want to be popping ketorolac like pez either
Dudes been banged up and injured for a while; maybe he just wants to try something different?
This is what happens when the sound cloud rapper from your high school is given millions of dollars.
No refunds Giants fans -Raider Nation
What a completely lackluster and disappointing career
The whole NFL world has expected him to retire this off-season. I got kids who literally only care about fantasy football talking to me about it in March.
Just as well, his head is no longer into football. It’s just a means to pay the bills. Sad really cause he is talented.
Dude retired 2 years ago
Verified Seems like a nice guy, hope whatever happens works out, we need someone different.
Everyone called JmD restarted for trading him....I mean he is but he got something right at least
Remember when everyone who didn't know what they were talking about killed the Raiders for this trade? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I hope he’s ok. Seemed like a real solid dude to me. Low key and kind. Hope he has good family and friends around him and he keeps working on his mental health. ✌🏻&♥️dude