I have the utmost respect for Coach O’Brien and that will not change. In jail calls, Aaron Hernandez discussed NFL’s reliance on painkillers with former teammates. “And there were many, many times when this could have gotten a walk back or he could’ve gotten off the rails. The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper brings you the latest headlines, opinions, political news, business reports and international news. The audio clips, culled from hundreds of calls the production team obtained through Foia (Freedom of Information Act) requests, “give everyone a look at who Aaron was”, said McDermott. “We’re presenting what’s there, so it’s not like we’re offering an opinion,” he said, “but we do want people to have conversations about it.”The series is ultimately unsuccessful in explaining what is probably unexplainable: what turned Hernandez from a popular jock into a cold-blooded killer. The best we could do was put out the facts of the story and the viewer is going to decide what they think is why,” said McDermott.
“It’s important to keep these conversations going and for people to know the whole story.”Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez is now available on NetflixA still from Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.A still from Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.ven by the standards of America’s obsession with stories of spectacular falls from grace, the trajectory of Aaron Hernandez, a star New England Patriots football player turned convicted murderer, was particularly steep and unusually compelling – a senseless, horrific collapse unfolding in real time.Aaron Hernandez listens during his double murder trial in Suffolk superior court, in Boston, 2017.
In a Netflix docuseries, the shocking true story of a much-loved athlete convicted of first-degree murder is placed under the microscopeThree years before “fake news” became an ominous catch-all, Hernandez’s summer 2013 arrest for the murder of Odin Lloyd at his mansion in North Attleborough, Massachusetts – a news frenzy scene replayed in the first minutes of Netflix’s new series Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez – seemed to be just that: unreal.
Their initial film, My Perfect World: The Aaron Hernandez Story, premiered at Doc NYC in 2018. “This is being blown way out of proportion,” Hopkins wrote on Twitter. Aaron Hernandez's family sues NFL over 'severe' CTE 23 Sep 2017 Sport The family of former football star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez is suing the NFL, their attorney saying brain scans after his death show he had 'severe' CTE.
“[O’Brien] got into talking about DeAndre Hopkins – [he] has a few kids from different women. Aaron Hernandez believed shooting victims 'were trying him' – prosecutors This article is more than 6 years old Former New England Patriots tight end … “As I’ve said before, I enjoyed and am proud of my time with the Texans.
DeAndre Hopkins will resume his career in Arizona next season. His closest confidante, cousin Tanya Singleton, died of breast cancer in 2015.
The Guardian - Back to home. “[O’Brien] told DeAndre Hopkins, ‘Hey, the last time I had to have a meeting like this, it was with Aaron Hernandez.’ ... [Hopkins] said, ‘Michael, that blew my mind that he would ever bring that up. I have the utmost respect for Coach O’Brien and that will not change. “It’s almost like he spent his whole life searching for where he belonged and never found it.”McDermott said he hopes people walk away from the series, first and foremost, with a deeper understanding of the context around Hernandez’s descent into violence, as well as perspective to continue conversations about sexuality in sports-dominated settings and the damage of CTE. (Hernandez killed himself in prison in April 2017. The production team reached out to “hundreds” of people who could speak to Hernandez’s life, according to McDermott, but his mother (with whom Hernandez was mostly estranged), brother and fiancee all declined to participate in the series.Instead, the series relies on testimony from “a tapestry of perspectives … from every walk of life in which Aaron was involved”, said McDermott, including: Dennis SanSoucie, Hernandez’s high school quarterback and secret lover for much of his adolescence, and his father, who was unaware of his son’s relationship with the star tight end until after Hernandez’s death; former Patriots offensive tackle Ryan O’Callaghan, who speaks to the pressure to stay silent as a gay man in football; Wetzel, Armstrong and other journalists covering the case; and friends of Lloyd, who provide a much-needed portrait of the lives Hernandez ended and the loved ones they left behind.In lieu of Hernandez’s own explanation, the series also works in long excerpts of his phone calls from prison to his mother, old teammates, Singleton, his fiancee and others.
[O’Brien] told DeAndre that he doesn’t like that he has his baby mamas around sometimes. There’s constantly new developments, new books coming out, new people talking.”Killer Inside attempts, over the course of three hour-long episodes, to untangle the many supercharged cultural threads undergirding Hernandez’s life, among them: the death of his domineering and allegedly abusive father when he was 16, the pressure to conform to a hypermasculine sports ideal, the double life of closeted sexuality, the allure of guns as an assertion of masculinity, the unwavering fanaticism of college football, the impunity permitted by fame, the prioritization of winning football games over literally anything else.
And from there, the relationship just went bad and thus we got a trade of DeAndre Hopkins from Houston for basically, like I said earlier, a ham sandwich, all because of that relationship.” This is being blown way out of proportion. His partners on the project, journalists Kevin Armstrong and Dan Wetzel, both executive producers, had been developing a book on Hernandez since his first trial in 2015; Armstrong had been covering Hernandez since his high school days in Bristol, Connecticut.
I’ve never been in any trouble. “You’re never going to know why. As I’ve said before, I enjoyed and am proud of my time with the Texans. He just never had the help or just made terrible decisions.”Over six-plus years of covering Hernandez, however, “you certainly saw a guy who throughout his life projected outwardly what he thought people wanted to see, whether it’s buying the big house or having a daughter, having a fiancee, the tattoos, whatever it was”, said Wetzel. DeAndre Hopkins has moved to play down extraordinary rumours swirling around his trade from the Houston Texans to Arizona Cardinals.“DeAndre told me this,” Irvin said.