Joe Mixon or Dalvin Cook?

[Big Boss]

(04-28-2017, 01:12 PM)Au165 Wrote: Whats to defend? He was wrong, he was punished by our judicial system as well as his university. The guys life isn't over, he still must work and this is his profession. Employers can choose not to hire him the same way that your place of business can choose not to hire someone with a criminal record. I would bet if you looked around your place of employment there are people with various criminal pasts (DUI, Drugs,etc) that you like that you don't hold their past transgressions against them.

The issue is in sports, people vicariously live through the athletes and in turn have issues at times excepting that some are not great people because they feel it somehow reflects on them as a person. I know someone who plays in the NFL, he said there are plenty of shitty people in the NFL, the fans just don't know they are shitty. The reality is we don't necessarily care athletes are shitty, we simply don't want to know they are shitty people.

Pretty much all of this.  

He was sentenced to a punishment (including court-ordered counseling), he served his punishment, and has been out of trouble for three years since the incident.  The lawsuit has been settled amicably between he and Molitor, and Molitor herself said it is time for people to move on.  

If the victim forgave him and he's shown he has been able to keep his nose clean since the incident, far be it for me to hold a grudge.  I'm all for giving second chances so long as some form of justice has been served.  He doesn't have a right to play in the NFL, but at the same time I don't think he should be outright banned from playing it in either.  

I will not try to spin justifications for what he did.  It was an inexcusable overreaction.  But it's in the past, and I'm willing to roll the dice on the kid never finding himself in a situation like that again.  Just my two cents on the matter.