Former Rams running back Tre Mason still doesn’t get it

Tre Mason, a former running back for the Los Angeles Rams went on the record recently. After reading about his time away from football, it’s clear that he still doesn’t get a thing.

Former Los Angeles Rams running back Tre Mason was back in the news this week.

Well, sort of.

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Mason was featured in a very well written article by Tyler Dunne over at Bleacher Report. After having personally written a few update pieces over the past year on the running back, I was curious to see what the former Rams player was up to, and read what had happened over the past 12 months.

Needless to say, if your impression has been of a man who could best be described as erratic or irresponsible, then your opinion won’t likely change.

Not answered really is some of the bizarre behavior that led to numerous interactions with law enforcement, like being Tased, threats to call the White House, and his adventure via an ATV. Clearly, he is resentful of his experience with the Rams, and saw fit to simply not show up rather than compete with Todd Gurley in 2016.

His reference to the Rams being a “clown show” may or may not be a reasonable assumption given recent history, but what comes through loudly is the all to typical, “it’s not me, it’s everyone else”, narrative.

Of course it is Tre.

I believe you can make a very good argument for the dysfunction of the Los Angeles Rams. I’ve called them a dumpster fire and I’ve no problem standing by that judgement, especially last season. But how anyone, ANYONE from the Rams would have been able to climb inside the mind of Mason and figure out what was happening in that rabbit hole is in and of itself, impossible.

If there is one thing to point to and say that Los Angeles got absolutely correct, it was in cutting ties with Tre.

Now, after a year of a self employed hiatus, Mason is looking for a job. That’s right, after a year of crazy making in Florida, Tre thinks someone should take a flier and sign him.

Talk about your crazy.

I don’t and won’t begrudge him looking for employment in the National Football League. Further, if some team believes he can help them win, then so be it.

But if no one comes calling, and he winds up a cautionary tale for how to blow up a career, then he’ll have no one to blame but himself. Mason takes ZERO responsibility for his actions, and making the Rams the problem is ignoring the one staring back at Tre every time he looks in a mirror.

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At some point, the man staring back needs to take ownership of the spot he finds himself in.

After reading this, Tre Mason is light years away from that happening, if ever.