The latest turn in the ongoing Adam "Pacman" Jones saga: Reports out of Dallas are saying that Jones will likely enter an alcohol rehab center in the next day or two, at the behest of the NFL.Jones, working with former Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders and a friend, began the process of trying to get back into the league after the NFL suspended him Tuesday.The debate seems to be going back and forth about whether the NFL overreacted to Jones's brouhaha with his bodyguard last week. Personally, I think the minimum four-game suspension was warranted given Jones's legal history, and his history with the NFL -- but I think it's infinitely more warranted if this is how Jones is going to spend those four weeks.
The league has required Jones to go into treatment following his fight last week with his bodyguard in a hotel bathroom.
Obviously this situation goes beyond the bounds of the NFL-Pacman relationship. The guy has issues, and it's probably high time that he started to address some of those.
Hopefully, Jones actually does check into the alcohol treatment program, and then Roger Goodell weighs his progress there before opting to reinstate him again. For a league that is cracking down on anything even remotely offensive or out-of-bounds, Jones's continued troubles has to drive Goodell crazy.
What does this mean for this year and Jones's future with the Cowboys. It's hard to tell; it seems questionable, at best, that Jones makes his way back onto the field in 2008. The public doesn't seem to believe he's coming back - over at Bodog.com, they are offering a prop bet on whether or not Jones will play again this season.
About an hour ago, those odds looked like this:
Now they look like this:Will Pacman Jones play again in the 2008 NFL Season?
Yes +130
No -170
Will Pacman Jones play again in the 2008 NFL Season?
Yes +200
No -260
For those of you unfamiliar with sports wagering ... that's a fairly big line shift.
How things play out could depend on the next few days. If Jones gets himself into this league-mandated rehab program, completes it an dstarts taking steps in the right direction, then he might get another chance.
As for whether or not that chance comes in Dallas or not, that remains to be seen. Can the Cowboys afford to take another chance on Jones? And if Dallas doesn't, will anyone else?
Regardless, hopefully this works out for Jones - he's running out of chances, both in the league and in his personal life.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-16-2008 @ 8:44PM
redskinsfan said...
He should be out at lest the rest of the year if not permanently.Pacman has been given every chance to get his shit togather. Pull the plug on stupidity.
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10-17-2008 @ 7:47PM
lowridersteeler said...
i say that if he is really serious about getting help then by all means he deserves one more chance if he is doing this just to get by and start all over again then just kick him to the curb and let him go back to that rock they call the ghetto and dwell with all the lowlifes there, cause thats what they deserve.
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10-17-2008 @ 11:22PM
A.J. said...
Pacman's never going to get another chance. Why? As hard as he would ever try, it's just a simple matter of Goodell and his goons as well as the media and the rest of the world sitting around Pacman like vultures, waiting for him to mess up. The last incident wasn't egregious enough to warrant an indefinite suspension, previous record or no. It just proved that Goodell prefers targeting specific players other than addressing some of the things that are really wrong with the league. Goodell wants to look like he's doing his job, so he throws out fines left and right, not realizing that he's really hurting the integrity of the game. Dogfighting's enough to earn a guy an indefinite suspension from the league. In this case, the police were never involved and Goodell found out about the incident a week late. Overkill? Definitely.
Pacman can be a bit of a troublemaker, but people have done worse than punching out their bodyguards. Goodell won't rest until he absolutely crucifies Pacman the football player AND Adam Jones the person...another example of someone putting a guy on the chopping block just to look like they're doing something productive.
The principle is eerily similar to a few weeks ago when Scott Linehan, the beleaguered former Rams' head coach, arbitrarily benched a completely healthy Marc Bulger for backup fossil, Trent Green - just to look like he was doing his job. You see how far that got him with his team, and with the ownership.
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