Josh Gordon stepping away from the Patriots to "focus on his mental health."
I now feel sure that I ought to do the same, for the same reason.
What an awful season.
Only in New England, where people are so spoiled now that heading towards an 11-5 season is an "awful" season.
Sheesh....
Let's hope Gordon is able to get the help he needs.
I've already acknowledged that, yeah, I'm spoiled.
Creaking toward 11-5 and a likely first or second round playoff exit, with a team that is underwhelming in every area, and has gotten worse over the course of the season instead of better -- yeah, it's awful by the high standards the team has set.
Honestly, I don't think 11-5 is by any means guaranteed, either.
I'm bracing myself for the embarrassing playoff defeat, which increasingly looks like it'll be on Wild Card weekend, at home, which would make this one of the worst seasons of the Brady / Belichick era.
I don't begrudge Gordon doing what he needs to do for his mental health, by the way. Indeed, I'm glad that he's doing what he needs to do for himself, instead of trying to push through it.
Although there are some reports that Gordon faced a suspension for violating the terms of his reinstatement (i.e. he probably failed a drug test), so the 'mental health' thing may be, to some extent, his effort to get out ahead of that story. But people often use drugs to deal with mental illness, so the two things are not necessarily incongruent.
I think it's fair to say, though -- the fact that the team needed to rely on a guy that has barely played over the last two years due to issues with drugs and mental health in order to have a playmaker with any kind of juice in the passing game . . . that says a lot about how poorly the roster was set up from an offensive standpoint.