01-28-2017, 06:05 PM
(01-27-2017, 06:29 PM)Shady Wrote: They're actually doing the right thing. I'm not condoning Jones' actions in the police car, but we don't know what led up to that. That's what the legal system decides, and whether or not any laws were broken. What is he guilty of besides being an idiot? That we know of?
Losing him would cost us alot. It would impact our negotiations with DreK – (Would he stay with Jones gone? I don't know how he feels about this.), and it would also impact our decisions on draft day. Would you like Teez Tabor or Marlon Humphries? Because one of those would be our #9 pick if we cut Jones and lose DreK, our two starting CBs. Could we roll with Dennard and Jackson? Do we want to have to?
This is what Jones doesn't understand about his behavior. It impacts his family, and it impact his team. He might have just screwed both, but I don't blame the Bengals for letting the law run its course. Maybe he's told them something that has led them to take this position. Maybe they expect him to be exonerated. I don't know. Something tells me that if they thought he was guilty of a crime, they'd have let him go by now.
This is where I completely disagree with you. Nothing that happened in the lead up to his arrest matters as far as his behavior towards the police or the corrections officers. Even if you are being arrested for no reason at all, anyone knows that you don't assault a police officer. You don't run your mouth in the car. You don't spit at the nurse in the jail. You're Pacman Jones, you've been arrested so many times that you know the drill. You have the phone number for your attorney either memorized or tattooed on your palm. You act respectfully, call your attorney from the jail, and let him bail you out. If you've been mistakenly arrested, then you let your attorney get the charges thrown out in court.
