Did Darnell Dockett says hes not a bad guy, just relentless?”
Darnell Dockett knows there are people who don’t like him, even though they don’t know him as more than anything but a big, rough football player for the Arizona Cardinals. “They go by what you see or what you’ve heard,” he said. “‘Oh, here’s a black guy with tattoos and dreds, he’s from the ghetto in Atlanta.’ You paint this picture. (But) you’d be surprised. He’s much more than a football player. The more guys who really see through that understand that Dockett’s a cool dude.” Dockett’s lapse into referring to himself in the third person betrays his desire to be liked, or at least appreciated. He wants people to understand where he’s come from, how many he’s helped along the way and how good a player he’s become. He talks of charitable work no one knows about and of helping “about 40 family members” who were in need. He is a prolific user of Twitter, showing his irreverent side to all who care to see. In the NFL, more and more people are recognizing his talent as the relentless 6-
