Ever since Patriots defensive star Chandler Jones showed up outside of a police station last weekend to surrender for no specific crime and at the same time ask for help, everyone has been trying to figure out exactly what happened. He clearly smoked or took something that his body didn’t agree with but what was it? Police said he technically never broke any laws so they didn’t open an investigation but his bizarre actions have led most people to think he smoke synthetic marijuana, which as we have seen over the past couple years can turn people legit crazy. Former All-Pro and current ESPN analyst Cris Carter doesn’t believe the synthetic weed story. He believe it was even worse than that.
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For Jones’ credit, he has faced the media head on about what happened, acknowledging that he knows why people are asking and he appreciates it but he still has never actually said what he did.
“I want to start off by saying I made a pretty stupid mistake this weekend,” Jones told reporters, via Doug Kyed of NESN.com. “Right now, my main focus is on becoming the best player I can be and helping the team. We’re focused on Kansas City.”
According to a police report, Jones showed up at a police station shirtless and, without warning, got down on his knees and put his hands behind his head. He was then sent to the hospital for what the Boston Globe reported was a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana.
“Like I said, I understand your question. I do. I truly understand it. Like I said, I want to apologize to all the fans and everyone’s support,” he said. “This weekend is probably going to be – I’m focusing on having probably the biggest game of my life. I’m trying just to clear this, but like I said, I made a stupid mistake, and hopefully it can just blow by.”
Now Carter, who admittedly had his own problems with drugs early in his career, isn’t buying the synthetic story one bit. He believes Jones smoked something even worse.
“I don’t know this, um, I think that the synthetic marijuana story might be just a story,” Carter said. “Just for me, it don’t pass the smell test for me. To me, I think that — I think he was smoking marijuana, and I think he was smoking some marijuana laced with PCP, or angel dust. And I think that’s what made him trip out. Now, he could have been smoking synthetic, but it’s a better story — it’s a better story to tell: ‘That’s the reason I’m here.’ So when he got to the police station, why was he smelling like marijuana? Because synthetic doesn’t smell like marijuana. So for me, I don’t know all the details of the case, but I’m just a little — uh, the synthetic, that’s a better way to put it.”
Carter then invoked the name of Aaron Hernandez, the former Patriots tight end now in prison for murder, as a cautionary tale.
“If you look at — this is not the same thing, so don’t freak out on me, people — but Aaron Hernandez, if you look at what was some of the things they started looking at with him? At the end, he was smoking marijuana laced with PCP. And that’s when the people around him said you can start to see, it started making a difference in his decision making. So, did he have that? No. I’m just trying to tell you what I believe could be the end result, because that’s what happens,” Carter said.
Comparing Jones to a convicted murdered is quite a jump but I can see where he is trying to go with it. Hernandez might have lived a very different life had he not been smoking PCP and angel dust his damn self. Jones appears to have gotten away with whatever really happened and we will likely never know the truth. I just hope whatever he tried that night, he never does it again.
