NFL Offseason Thread

[-Jrabbit]

At least he wasn't packing heat and hanging out at a strip club...

[Zopperoni]

This could've happened on the way back from the strip club

[snoopy369]

Frankly I don't care if he was drunk or not... he shouldn't be out at 3:30am. I had some vague sympathy for the guy at one point, but that's gone by now... I say cut him

[-Jrabbit]

40 in a 25 and he loses his career?
Give me a break.

Let's at least wait for the blood test.

[SlowwHand]

Wait? That's the exact problem. Waiting around, giving people the chance at a -do-over, over and over.
Screw the guy.

[-Jrabbit]

So you're saying that if all he's guilty of is speeding, ban from the league anyway?

[SlowwHand]

Not for speeding. When does he come back as it stands? 2008?

[snoopy369]

He's currently at 8 games, 6 with good behavior, I believe.

JR, I am not saying that it's the 40 in a 25 zone that's the problem. It's the 3:30am that's a problem. He is in trouble because he was out at 3am with his friends at a club. He doesn't know how to choose his friends, and he's apparently not making the effort to do so. If I find out he was driving 40 to get to the birth of his child or something, that's okay, but if he was going home from a club (as is I think the case), that's just not good enough for me.

[snoopy369]

On a lighter note...

Quote from a teaser for an ESPN.com video segment: 'Grossman Looks To Silence Critics In 07'

I'm assuming they mean "silence" by "leaving the league so people stop talking about him"...

[SlowwHand]

[-Jrabbit]

Listen, I'm as down on pro athletes-gone-wild behavior as much as anyone. And I know this means Tank's suspension will go full length, as Goodell's leniency condition was "no contact with the law" or some such. But still...

A quick search of news reports reveals:

It was not immediately clear why Johnson was in Arizona although he attended high school in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe.

I scanned about 30 reports and couldn't find anything on what Tank had been doing or where he was coming from.

Sgt. Andrew Duncan, a police spokesman, said Johnson was arrested for "DUI Impaired to the Slightest Degree" but was released without being booked or charged.

Duncan said Johnson was taken to the Gilbert police station, where officials drew blood for a blood-alcohol content test before his release. He described Johnson as "very cooperative."

The officer had probable cause to make an arrest, Duncan said. Test results aren't expected for up to two weeks, and they would be sent to Gilbert town prosecutors for consideration of any charges.

Snoop, to me, your assumption that he's was on his way home from a strip club sounds dangerously close to profiling.

"Johnson was not booked or charged," he said in the statement. "There have been no official charges thus far and no citations issued."

Gilbert Police stopped Johnson for driving 40 miles an hour in a 25 miles an hour zone at 3:30 a.m. local time Friday. An officer made an observation at the scene leading him to believe that Johnson was impaired. Johnson was transported to the Gilbert Police station, where blood was drawn.

Duncan said the crime lab in neighboring Chandler will test the blood sample, a process that will take two weeks.

Arizona law is different from Illinois. In addition to a DUI law that sets a legal limit of .08, Arizona has a law "DUI Impaired to the slightest Degree," that allows charges to be pressed no matter how small the amount of alcohol or drugs involved.

Duncan said the charge is not normally filed unless there is an accident involved or some other extenuating factor. He said that would be left for prosecutors to decide.

Based on the last bolded passage, that cop in Gilbert may be similarly jumping the gun.

[SlowwHand]

My dad used to talk about the proverbial where there's smoke, theres fire. I told him bull**** on that idea.
Turns out, he was right.
How often do you have run-in with the law?

[-Jrabbit]

I'm not defending the guy. I'm just saying you guys are jumping the gun.

Sometimes that smoke turns out to be fog.

[SlowwHand]

I hope he hasn't stumbled again. I don't root for people to fail.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Wait? That's the exact problem. Waiting around, giving people the chance at a -do-over, over and over.
Screw the guy.

Had me fooled.