Wes Welker did something really impressive on Tuesday night: He issued a statement on his suspension that found a way to be definitive while retaining an air of being completely perplexed -- all the while saying nothing at all.
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"YOU DON'T KNOW ME, MAN!"
"I want any youth football players and all sports fans to know, there are NO shortcuts to success, and nothing but hard work and studying, leads to success."
This was his rhetorical play throughout the statement; ignore the failed test, remove himself from the equation, focus on the hot button issue everyone cares about and deflect blame.
"I have never been concerned with the leagues performance enhancing or drug abuse policies because under no scenario would they ever apply to me"
On the one hand, Welker says he'd never knowingly take something to gain an advantage. On the other, he says he's never paid attention to the drug policy. So he admits he wouldn't know, even if he did take something. Essentially he's trying to insulate himself from ever being penalized, but in the strangest way possible.
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We'll probably never know exactly what happened in Kentucky because Welker isn't being forthright about any of this. By his version of events he might have taken something accidentally in Kentucky, or maybe his sample was tainted -- but he definitely didn't take anything "knowingly." That said, there was no way he could have knowingly violated the drug policy because he never read it in the first place.
Rest assured, drugs are bad, kids -- but only if you take them knowing what they are.
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