Limas Sweed walks out on Roughriders

THE END of Sweed's football career has apparently and mercifully come to an end. I just don't understand why this guy couldn't get it together. Sad end to a sad story.

http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.co...eed-suspended-roughriders-pittsburgh-steelers

 

Methinks Limas has never been "all there" What a shame.

 

It is no secret that I was big on Limas coming out of college. He was going to be the next great Steeler receiver. I would still argue that his "drops" weren't as bad as people made them out to be, however, they came at terrible times. Sad to see so much talent go to waste. I think your right snack...he just weren't right in the noggin.

 

Sweed had the hard part down there was no covering him but then again there was no reason to cover him. I don't remember which reporter it was but they described him nest he was an enigma.

 

THIS IS EXXXXXACTTTTLLLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY!!!! GET OUTTA MY DANG HEAD!!! AHAHAAH!

 

I'm right there with you Jim. I was really looking forward to seeing what he could do and then I remember when Ben hit him wide open in the playoff game against San Diego I believe and he just flat out dropped it and I was like "yep you're not the guy". But at least he did come back in that same game and absolutely lay some dude out. So maybe he should've been a safety or corner or something. LOL.

 

Or the Bengals game where he was wide open in the end zone and just flat out dropped it. Nobody around him just him and a bengal striped end zone. I feel like he had another big drop maybe even another td drop in that game. Didn't we also miss the playoffs by one game that year too. I do have one found memory of him going ward on that raven in the afc championship game of course that was after a big drop.

 

Please no more Limas Sweed story's, He is a disgrace as a football player and shouldn't
even be mentioned anymore with these great warriors that play this game. He is a LOSER,
we have all seen them in our life, if you all have ever played organized sports the great talents
that never come out for the team or the superstars in practice but when the lights come on
they never make an impact.

 

Not to start this debate all over - espcially given that it seems to finally be the end for Sweed - but I think it's abit harsh to call him a 'disgrace'.

Sweed wasn't doing a Rolando McLain or Jamarcus Russell. There are, as you say, plenty of players who struggle to translate college/practice field into game time, and while we all remember Sweed's big drops, there is some statistic that he wasn't actually so bad percentage-wise as others. Plenty of NFL-calibre players have dropped easy passes. Just to take up SteelHurtin's point, if you're at the point where you miss the play-offs by one game in a season, that doesn't all come down to one player on one play.

He clearly had/has some "personal" issues, and it's a shame his talent never developed in the way it could have.

 

Yeah! THAT was the play I was talking about where he laid that dude OUT! I couldn't remember who we were playing. I was thinking it was the Chargers in the playoff game that year but I guess I was wrong. I do remember him laying the wood though.

 

Word is that he didn't exactly leave right away. He apparently dropped his keys on the way to his car and it took him several hours to find them.

 

Yeah, he wasn't here when he was here.

 

Lol.

harsh, but lol.

 

To me the shame of it is that people will call him a bust because he couldn't catch. That's baloney. Aside from all the coaching issues I've ranted about in the past, he was a bust because of his head, not his hands. That and some bad luck.

 

Aren't they directly related?

 

I'm not sure what you mean. What I mean is that it wasn't his ability to catch or lack there of that cost him his career. It was his noodle.

If you mean he had those drops because of his noodle too, I agree.

 

Yeah now I remember. He was a head case. Didn't he take a leave of absence at one point? Still had the dropsies though, so my joke stands .

He does have this to hang his hat on tough:
[video=youtube;bl_69NNQ_kk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_69NNQ_kk[/video]

 

The good ol' days, when football was football. He'd be suspended for that block if he did it now. Awesome stuff, though.

The thing I love about that play that no one talks about is Heath Miller's hit on the dude that knocks him out of bounds. It goes unnoticed because of Limas' block, but it's pretty funny if you just watch those two.

 

Now THAT is smash-mouth football!!! It's sad to think that may be gone forever.

 

What is amazing is that the article claims he was seen carrying his bags. I thought the guy couldn't hang on to anything? (Bobbybiz... that right there was funny, I don't care who you are!)

 

oK, The video los me on the Sweed subject. I was too busy watching Heath and Clark. What was the point of the video again?