great Adam Jones article

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(09-10-2016, 09:30 PM)jason Wrote: Let me preface this by saying that I'm a huge fan of Pacman the player, but...

I'm not too sure you were "100% wrong" about him. He has at least a couple off field incidents since he's been here. He had a bad neck injury at the time of the first; so who knows? He was also caught on camera smacking the shit outta some woman at a bar.

The woman he hit was obviously running her mouth his direction. He starts to walk away a couple of times, but always let her goad him into continuing the conversation. At some point she raises her hand with a bottle or glass in it, and he hit her. He should have kept on walking and left the situation alone. He was found not guilty in that incident, but...

A couple of years go by and the Bengals find themselves in a heated game on a rainy January night... All of the sudden Pacman notices a ******* named "Jerry Porter" mingling around his huddle. Instead of walking away (like Geno, MJ, and Dunlap), Pacman decides to try and swing at "Jerry" and bumps the referee... He put the final nail in our coffin.... He doesn't seem to learn from mistakes.

My memory tells a different story about the woman at the bar incident.  He was acquitted because she started to throw a drink at him, and he swiped at it knocking it out of her hand. Regardless, he let her "running her mouth" engage him in the first place and that was a mistake.

As far as the steeler game, I would place him somewhere around 3rd in terms of "responsibility for the breakdown", with Jeremy and Burfict being #1 and #2, but I digress.  I look at that entire mess and remind myself that they more than likely weren't going to go all the way with McCarron as QB anyways, but the way they lost and the team that beat them is what made it such a horrible end to the season.

I also know that this team will have learned from it and I REALLY liked the business-like focus I saw from the #1s in the preseason.  Early injuries be damned, this team is on a mission, and it starts today.