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Time to make the main thing the main thing . . .
And the main thing for Le’Veon Bell is to be a great player for the New York Jets.
That is why they gave him a four-year contract for $52.5 million.
Yesterday, he was fighting on Twitter with Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen who didn’t like Bell’s new rap song.
Tim Benz of the Pittsburgh Tribune wrote about the song: “The new Jets running back released a clip of his new single named ‘Free At Last.’ That’s in reference to Bell’s thinking that he’s been held prisoner by the Steelers, and his apparent belief — based on his social media activity — that he is the Martin Luther King, Jr. of running backs.”
Allen put up a picture of a trash can on twitter to describe his feeling about the song.
Bell told Allen he wished he can made his critique private.
“If you honestly felt that way, you could’ve just texted me and said that,” Bell tweeted.
“I was not trolling on my momma bro. I don’t troll. Like I said I speak facts. You shouldn’t have asked if you ain’t want the truth. All love over here bro,” Allen tweeted.
I understand we are just in April, and the season doesn’t start until September, but the Jets might need to start evaluating this situation.
It’s clearly time for Bell to move on from the Steelers and focus on being a New York Jet. It’s time for the Steelers to be in his rear-view mirror and for him to focus 100 percent of his energy on trying to bring a championship to Florham Park.
And if you don’t believe me on this, ask Steve McLendon, his current Jets teammate who played with him in Pittsburgh.
“My thing is, let that be behind you,” McLendon said. “You’re in a new place, your in a new organization and you get to establish yourself somewhere else. You get to so something special somewhere else.
“My thing is, don’t look in the past. I tell my kids all the time. If you start driving in reserve, you risk getting in a wreck. So stay single in the focus on the path ahead.”
Bell is clearly chasing too many windmills, to paraphrase a line from the 1605 novel “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes.
Remember, he recently told Sports Illustrated reporter Jenny Vrentas in a video for the magazine’s website that the Steelers don’t great their players like “humans.”
That caused quite a stir.
And now he’s writing rap songs about his departure for Pittsburgh.
If I ran the Jets, I would have a little chat with the man that the organization just made filthy rich.
They need him to focus less on his rap career, less on Pittsburgh, and all his energies need to be on the New York Football Jets.
It’s not good for the Jets’ football culture for their new star player to be chasing so many windmills that have nothing to do with helping them win on Sunday. It’s sets a bad tone.
The guy is a heck of a football player, and the Jets need him from this point on, to make the main thing the main thing, to quote the late Stephen Covey.
April 3, 2019
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