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 The only good news out of the Jets locker room, if there is any 
 good news when a scrub throws a punch that breaks the jaw of the 
 starting quarterback, is this: At least the pro football players 
 are punching out each other now, and not their girlfriends. 
  
 But because this is the Jets, and because bad things seem to 
 happen to them no matter who is in charge, all the way back to 
 Joe Namath€s knees, this did feel like an awful lot of history 
 behind the punch that IK Enemkpali threw at Geno Smith, the shot 
 heard €round the world in pro football on Tuesday. The only 
 thing that would have made it better is if Rex Ryan were still 
 the coach, because then everybody would have covered this like a 
 prison break. 
  
 Here is how the new Jets head coach, Todd Bowles, described what 
 happened between Enemkpali and Smith: 
  
 €Something very childish that sixth-graders could have talked 
 about and it had no reason to happen.€ 
  
 It did happen, though, and it happened with a couple of Bowles€ 
 players, neither one of them a pro football star and one of 
 them, the slugger Enemkpali, off the team and perhaps out of the 
 National Football League not long after he connected on Smith 
 with what Bowles described as a €sucker punch.€ Never has the 
 expression seemed more appropriate. 
  
 You figured right away that the beef was about a woman or money. 
 It is reportedly about money. Enemkpali organized a charity 
 event in Texas. He invited Smith, who didn€t attend. So it could 
 turn out that Enemkpali, who played only 40 snaps for the Jets 
 last season, threw his career away over $600 for plane tickets 
 and limo fees that Smith wouldn€t pay back. And who knows what 
 happens to Smith if his replacement, Ryan Fitzpatrick, does 
 enough to prop up a fine, talented Jets defense in Smith€s 
 absence. Maybe Smith is out of a job, too. 
  
 So this turns out to be a season dominated by slow thinkers for 
 the Jets before the first preseason game is even played. Sheldon 
 Richardson, who was supposed to be a part of that fine defense, 
 gets himself suspended for four games after being found in 
 violation of the league€s drug policy, reportedly for smoking 
 marijuana. 
  
 Then Richardson gets picked up in Missouri for driving a car 143 
 miles an hour, with an automatic weapon in that car and, oh by 
 the way, a 12-year-old child and the smell of more weed in the 
 car. 
  
 Now this happens in the locker room. Enemkpali, out of Louisiana 
 Tech, where he once had pepper spray and a stun gun used on him 
 because of a bar fight with an off-duty cop, somehow manages to 
 hit his own quarterback harder than he hit anybody on the other 
 team for the Jets last season. 
  
 When news about all that made its way out of the locker room and 
 out into the world, before anybody even knew the details of why 
 it happened, this really did feel like a lot of punches Jets 
 fans have taken over recent years; felt like that famous Butt 
 Fumble from Mark Sanchez against the Patriots and Sanchez losing 
 a season because of a hit he took in the fourth quarter of a 
 preseason game playing behind second- and third-stringers; and 
 theTebow circus coming to town; and Brett Favre€s sexting; and 
 all the various slapstick with Rex. Rex was the one who was 
 supposed to be coaching the €Sons of Anarchy.€ 
  
 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/lupica-geno- 
 smith-broken-jaw-sutpid-jet-tricks-article-1.2322615 
  
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