When Maurice Clarett, after being pulled over with a small arsenal in his car, talked of receiving threats on his life, he may not have been making that up. When I first read his claim, I just sort of assumed that the man had gone Tom Cruise crazy. But he got another threat today, this one on a typewritten postcard that arrived at the offices of the lawyers representing him.

No one’s saying what was on the note, or what it means. It’s described as “very cyptic.” Kinda gives some more credence to Tom Friend’s article, where he sorta theorized that Clarett owed some people money, and they’d like it back.

As for Clarett himself, his lawyer says he’s doing alright in jail.

“He’s been in very good spirits,” Hoague said. “He’s basically sitting in his cell, doing sit-ups and push-ups and reading the Bible, all day long.”

He gets to jail, and now he wants to train. Better late than never, I suppose, but a few sit-ups and some Bible study might’ve been a little more useful if they had come, say, I dunno… a couple of months before the NFL combine. But if that’s true, and he is in good spirits, I don’t find that hard to believe at all. His only responsibility in prison is not to get shanked or raped, and if he’s isolated and protected, yeah, he’s probably happier without any responsibilities in there.