Sometimes you have to be patient before you see the hole in your life and can run to daylight.
Ty Montgomery has recovered the fumble that rocked his world, changed his life, changed his NFL destiny and his destination.
Because the victory over yourself can be the greatest victory of all.
And now it is a liberated Ty Montgomery — an RB with WR skills — who is certain that the best is yet to come for him as Adam Gase’s X-Factor.
Heaven as a New York Jet, following the hell that was his final, fateful days as a Green Bay Packer.
With the help of a Jets team psychologist, Montgomery has trained his mind to be in a better place.
“There’s power in feeling free, to no longer being bound by pressures of negativity, and how to stay away from negativity, and how to stay away from darkness and things like that,” Montgomery told The Post. “Negative is normal, that’s just the reality. But how do you view with it, how do you deal with it? Instead of trying to run from it, instead of trying to avoid the mistakes, how do you deal with the mistakes?”
Montgomery fumbled a kickoff return late last October that prevented Aaron Rodgers (A-Rod) from a comeback victory over the Rams, and then came the death threats and the social media harassment and anonymous criticism from teammates and a trade two days later to the Ravens.
Montgomery had to ask himself how one play, one play that he and only he knew was a split-second decision and not an uncharacteristic act of selfishness or disobedience, could undo all the good he had done as a man of character in the community.
“I knew how good I was, I knew what kind of person I was, I knew what kind of man I was,” Montgomery said.