TexasHSFootball
04-21-2008, 08:59 PM
Down and Out?
Tommy Blake had the kind of junior season any intercollegiate football player dreams about. A defensive end at Texas Christian, Blake led the Mountain West Conference in tackles for loss and was named the Defensive MVP of the Poinsettia Bowl. When Blake returned for his senior year, something had changed. “I’d go through the drills…I’d go through them and I’d do them well, but it’s like I’d be out there and just, like, hating it right now,” Blake said of his moods. He left the team and went home.
Blake sits down with E:60 correspondent Michael Smith and, for the first time on television, talks about his demons – a diagnosis of clinical depression. With the NFL draft less than two weeks away, some scouts now consider drafting Blake a risk. Once expected to go in the first round, he may not even get drafted at all. But Blake talks openly about his battle with depression and his fight to prove the scouts wrong.
ESPN - 6pm Tuesday
ESPN Press Release (http://espnmediazone.com/press_releases/2008_04_apr/2008_0418_FeaturesonE60.htm)
Tommy Blake had the kind of junior season any intercollegiate football player dreams about. A defensive end at Texas Christian, Blake led the Mountain West Conference in tackles for loss and was named the Defensive MVP of the Poinsettia Bowl. When Blake returned for his senior year, something had changed. “I’d go through the drills…I’d go through them and I’d do them well, but it’s like I’d be out there and just, like, hating it right now,” Blake said of his moods. He left the team and went home.
Blake sits down with E:60 correspondent Michael Smith and, for the first time on television, talks about his demons – a diagnosis of clinical depression. With the NFL draft less than two weeks away, some scouts now consider drafting Blake a risk. Once expected to go in the first round, he may not even get drafted at all. But Blake talks openly about his battle with depression and his fight to prove the scouts wrong.
ESPN - 6pm Tuesday
ESPN Press Release (http://espnmediazone.com/press_releases/2008_04_apr/2008_0418_FeaturesonE60.htm)