And one of the devices that Erica Kinsman’s lawyers will use to get under Winston’s skin will be the photo of Jameis with a Buccaneers jersey on his back, a Buccaneers hat on his head, and a plate of crab legs in his hands. It may not go as poorly as Justin Bieber’s deposition, but there’s a chance that Winston’s inevitable question-and-answer session won’t go as well as he’ll think it’s going. Which means he’s poking fun indirectly at a pending claim of sexual assault that will be the opposite of fun once he ends up under oath and on video trying to talk his way around questions from a lawyer who has spent years dealing with people who thought they could charm their way out of any problem. So when Winston pokes fun at the crab-leg caper specifically he’s poking fun at his off-field issues generally. And one of those issues is a lingering sexual-assault allegation that has become a civil lawsuit that isn’t going to disappear simply because he’s now in the NFL. And that many issues begin to intertwine. Jameis Winson took this photo at his NFL Draft party. While being told by Harbaugh to be as blunt and serious as possible with teams, Winston opened up about one of those incidents - stealing 33 worth of crab legs from a Publix in Tallahassee. If Winston’s only off-field blemish arose from his saunter through the front door of the official grocery store of the Buccaneers with a box of appendages that usually move sideways, it would have been fine. Here's why Jameis Winston took that crab legs photo and why he deleted it By Michael Katz KatzM May 1, 2015, 11:15am EDT 1. Major Michael Wood said during a press conference that Winston told authorities that he just forgot to pay the 32 for the crab legs and other seafood items. And someone has apparently persuaded Winston that it wasn’t the smartest thing to do. The Buccaneers and/or Winston’s lawyers may have been thinking the same thing. Perhaps starting with the woman in the background of the photo, whose face has an expression that suggests, “Is he really doing this?” But not everyone feels that way about the gesture. Many gave Jameis Winston a restrained round of applause for the self-awareness displayed as he posed in Buccaneers gear with a plate of crab legs.
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