Pacman Jones: 'It's Going to Work Out'

When the Dallas Cowboys acquired Adam "Pacman" Jones from the Tennessee Titans last year, many league observers thought it represented Jones' last chance, because Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was the only owner willing to sign a paycheck for Pacman. So when the Cowboys got rid of Pacman this offseason, it looked like his career was over.

Pacman, however, has other ideas, and he says he expects to play for some NFL team in 2009.

Pacman was in Indianapolis during Scouting Combine weekend in an effort to convince coaches that he's not the team-killer he's been portrayed as, and Mac Engel of the Star-Telegram caught up with him:

"I'm just working out. Staying in shape. I'm good," Jones said at the Indianapolis International Airport on Tuesday morning. "I'm thinking it's going to work out somewhere."

For all of Pacman's off-field problems, I really don't have a problem with a team signing him, as long as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he's allowed to play and our nation's legal system says he's a free man. But I think Pacman is being unrealistically optimistic, unless he thinks the "somewhere" it's going to work out is the United Football League.