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“All I can say to that: In life, there’s timing that’s involved. In life, there’s timing.”
Those were the words of New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman last Wednesday when asked about cornerback DeAndre Baker and when he might ultimately be released from the roster.
“A decision will be made sooner rather than later on that,” team co-owner John Mara said a day later.
The Giants officially announced that Baker had been waived on Tuesday afternoon and as fate would have it, mere hours later a bombshell report would drop that paints the 23-year-old in an even worse light.
The New York Daily News released a trove of court documents, witness statements and intelligence gathered by police who are investigating Baker’s case . . . and it does not look good for the former first-round pick.
“(People) was already telling us, you know, if we have to come to Miami and go to court, we wouldn’t make it through the court (hearing),” said Victim 3. “That was the threats that we were getting … And the guys are going to have you guys killed coming down here to court.”
Several victims said word on the street cited a $100,000 “contract … on our heads.” Victim 4 claimed he heard Baker’s father went to a local “American gangster” named Blok to insure the witnesses would “hush-up and shut-up.” A detective says he was told the local bad guy was related to Dunbar, who was arrested with Baker but dodged prosecution due to “insufficient evidence.”
The story gets no less crazy from there and seems to pull Seattle Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar back into the thick of things as well.
But this is no longer the Giants’ problem and just at the exact right time, too. How very fortuitous.
As it turns out, timing really is everything. The Giants held onto Baker as long as they could and then cut him loose mere moments before another major wave came crashing down.
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