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I'm starting to get kind of concerned. What's all this drama with Matt Roth about. He sits out during practice doing light exercises by himself on the sidelines instead of doing any sort of normal contact drills with the rest of the team. Reports say he failed his conditioning test. His agent Drew Rosenhaus claims he suffered some sort of groin injury (again). Sparano says he is "under the weather" and when approached about the groin injury, claims to have never heard anything about it.
Sparano claims this is the first he's heard of it and that doesn't match the information Roth gave him about why he can't practice. Furthermore, some of the exercises Roth was doing on the sidelines included things like running which suggest there couldn't be a groin injury.
Sparano goes on to say "Matt was a good player for us a year ago. We have to get to the bottom of it and find out what's wrong with him."
I find this whole thing kind of suspicious and really disconcerting.
He is still feeling the lingering effects from his groin surgery and lied to the coach about it. Twice! Doesn't matter JT would have taken the spot from him anyway. He was feeling the heat from JT which is why he lied and said he was sick.
Roth showed promise last year, but it looks like that may be short-lived. He didn't help his career when he was arrested. Now he lies to his coach? Not good.
Dont write the man off yet! Everyone quick to blame, look at my blaming of vontae! I should appologize for my rampid quick to blame him just like you should do, after all? Ricky Williams ring a bell!!
I like how I'm starting to see the phrase "Rothgate" pop up here and there in the blogosphere. Well really in just two places so far. I came up with what I thought was a funny name to describe this whole Matt Roth scandal early yesterday and then I see Omar use it on twitter (he's been known to frequent this site from time to time) and then some guy named John Renshaw uses it earlier today in an article I read in the Bleacher Report. I don't know if they ripped me off (it's not like it would be impossible for someone to also come up with the same name without seeing my reference) or if "Rothgate" is actually just a much more obvious play on words description of this story than I thought. Either way I'm flattered.
Note* Yes I am aware of how incredibly unimportant and braggadocios this post is
You may have been the first to come up with it in this case, but people in the press use the suffix "-gate" for everything that remotely resembles a potential contretemps.
Maybe get a trademark lawyer next time and cash in!