Getting off to a rough start
Talk about a lousy way to get started. Barely five minutes on the big stage of Redskins foootball and already rookie linebacker Cody Glenn has stepped in it. With lies.
Cody was Washington's fifth round pick out of the University of Nebraska in last weekend's draft, from the get go there were questions about Cody, he signed with Nebraska four years ago as a tailback, played three years at that position then due to a plethora of ball carriers Cody agreed to move to linebacker, where he won the weak side starting spot.
He played all of nine games his senior year, those games representing the sum total of Cody's experience at linebacker, Cody got himself suspended by head coach Bo Pellini for the team's final three games plus the bowl game.
I did some basic homework on Cody Sunday night, trying to see if some blogger, commenter or message board poster had information on the nature of the suspension, perhaps something that was an open secret in Lincoln but that the straight media would not report out of courtesy or journalistic standards.
I could not find anything and went back about my business wondering why the Redskins would draft a guy with less than one year of college experience at a position of serious need.
Then Monday, the day after he was drafted, the Washington Post reported (op. cit.) that Cody acknowledged in an interview Sunday the reason for his suspension was that he was caught selling, or perhaps scalping, tickets to Nebraska games which I would presume is a no no for a member of the team. This piece also indicates parenthetically that the Redskins claim to have investigated the incident thoroughly with the Nebraska staff before making the pick, and presumably they were ok with it since they made the pick.
So now I am thinking to myself, a youthful indiscretion right, just a silly mistake and not a more serious offense or indicative of any underlying character problem.
Now Tuesday, the next day, we see over at the Washington Post Redskins blog Redskins Insider, this was in turn reported in the paper the following day, that Cody had admitted to an AP reporter that the ticket scalping story was a lie, a story he concocted to get reporters quote to leave him alone unquote which I presume would translate roughly to I really really do not want the actual cause of my suspension to come out so in my immaturity I will make up a plausible story that cannot be backed up and when questioned on it will fold like a child and try and aw shucks my way out of it, it's no big deal right?
Wrong, talk about unclear on the concept, this piece goes on to detail that Cody indicated to the AP reporter that he made up the story to get the Redskins beat writers to leave him alone and presumably end the story Sunday, his draft day. Jason La Canfora writes that he has it on authority from at least two other teams that Cody's story at the NFL Combine ten weeks ago was that he was suspended for selling tickets. So it is not a new story.
Add to this that none other than the Redskins' head coach himself verified that the team investigated the issue thoroughly and that is a lot of egg on a lot of faces.
What did the team find? Did they get the truth and then hold their tongue while their new rookie went out and stuck his foot in his mouth? Or did the Nebraska coaches give the Redskins a big fat no comment which was enough of cover your ass due diligence for the team to make this statement? Either way I would assume the Redskins is are verruh displeased with Cody Glenn right now.
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Cody, over here a second, can I get a word? Dude they impeached the President of the United States for getting a blow job and trying to lie his way out of it, that was right here in Redskins town. Do you think for a moment that the fans and media are going to let this go? This is Washington, it is never the crime that ruins your career, it is the cover up.
The real reason is going to come out, with direct attribution from Lincoln or anonymously in Sports Illustrated, I strongly recommend you try to get back ahead of this story and like now, minicamp starts this weekend and you will be on display, get up, tell the truth, or enough of it to show you understand a pound of flesh is needed for violating the code. If you do not this will linger into camp and into the season and every time your name comes up it will be oh yeah isn't that the guy that lied.
Neutralize it now or it may neutralize you.
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