Cowboys done with Pacman

[Tickle Fiend]

Cowboys Cut Pacman Jones
Posted by nickeatman at 1/7/2009 5:30 PM CST

The Cowboys have released cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones after just one season with the club. The club made the announcment through a press release at the end of the day.

Jones had just 33 tackles this season with no interceptions. He tied for the team lead with 13 pass deflections.

More details to come.

http://www.truebluefanclub.com/blog...5d37b91de308&sid=sitelife.truebluefanclub.com


The Adam "Pacman" Jones era in Dallas is over.

The Cowboys announced his release on Wednesday. The transaction will be made official on Feb. 9th, which is the first day that NFL clubs are allowed to make waiver requests.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3817195

 

[punkrockergirl]

hes done unless oakland takes him.. because oakland is the land of the misfit players.. but i think pacman's career is over

 

[maniactickler]

At least he has a wrestling career to fall back on.

 

[punkrockergirl]

At least he has a wrestling career to fall back on.

bwahahaahahahahahaha

 

[jppower]

Why do teams fuss over this guy? He's not even good on the field. He's a backup at best, even if he behaved like an angel. I know he was a great talent in college, but some guys just can't play the pro game. He's one of them.

 

[punkrockergirl]

Why do teams fuss over this guy? He's not even good on the field. He's a backup at best, even if he behaved like an angel. I know he was a great talent in college, but some guys just can't play the pro game. He's one of them.

xactly .. he is a dynamic punt and kick returner tho so he carries a little value but not enuff for the bagage that he comes with

 

[Tickle Fiend]

Cowboys cut Pacman Jones after more legal issues surfaced
6:43 PM Wed, Jan 07, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon E-mail News tips

ESPN is reporting that Pacman Jones was cut after the Cowboys became aware of new allegations against him.

Jones's release came after "Outside the Lines" reporter John Barr contacted the NFL, the Cowboys and Jones' attorneys about a piece scheduled to air Sunday in which three Atlanta-area men allege that Jones arranged for someone to shoot at them two months after the football player was suspended by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in 2007.
The June 2007 shooting occurred outside a suburban Atlanta strip club. One of the shooting victims told "Outside the Lines" that he had a dispute with Jones inside the strip club and that not long after he and the two others left the club, a hail of bullets struck their car. The NFL knew about that incident, but charges were never brought against anyone because the victims did not see the shooter.

"Outside the Lines" obtained information that police, investigating a separate Atlanta-area case, had been told by an informant that Jones ordered the June 2007 shooting following his dispute with one of the men. Police have said while the case remains open they are not actively investigating.


Jones is also scheduled to testify in the March trial of Arvin Edwards, the man facing charges for the shooting at a Las Vegas strip club that left a bouncer paralyzed and led to Pacman's suspension for the 2007 season.
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/espn-cowboys-cut-pacman-jones-after-more.html

 

[punkrockergirl]

Cowboys cut Pacman Jones after more legal issues surfaced
6:43 PM Wed, Jan 07, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon E-mail News tips

ESPN is reporting that Pacman Jones was cut after the Cowboys became aware of new allegations against him.

Jones's release came after "Outside the Lines" reporter John Barr contacted the NFL, the Cowboys and Jones' attorneys about a piece scheduled to air Sunday in which three Atlanta-area men allege that Jones arranged for someone to shoot at them two months after the football player was suspended by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in 2007.
The June 2007 shooting occurred outside a suburban Atlanta strip club. One of the shooting victims told "Outside the Lines" that he had a dispute with Jones inside the strip club and that not long after he and the two others left the club, a hail of bullets struck their car. The NFL knew about that incident, but charges were never brought against anyone because the victims did not see the shooter.

"Outside the Lines" obtained information that police, investigating a separate Atlanta-area case, had been told by an informant that Jones ordered the June 2007 shooting following his dispute with one of the men. Police have said while the case remains open they are not actively investigating.


Jones is also scheduled to testify in the March trial of Arvin Edwards, the man facing charges for the shooting at a Las Vegas strip club that left a bouncer paralyzed and led to Pacman's suspension for the 2007 season.
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/espn-cowboys-cut-pacman-jones-after-more.html

bwahaha cant keep his damn hands outta the cookie jar.. i hope he goes to jail

 

[Bugman]

I hope that young man will get his life together.Not betting on it,but one can always hope.His time in the NFL is most likely over.

 

[Cy/MiG]

To quote Nelson Muntz:

Ha-Haw!



Screw you 'Pacman'

 

[Adam]

Frankly, I'm amazed he was ever granted another chance after all the off-field shenanigans. So long, Pacman.

 

[CarolinaTickler]

This guy has been the poster child for the "second chance" and finally his chances ran out.

If he were a more talented player I could see some team taking a chance on him again but honestly I don't think any team is willing to take a chance on a nickle/dime back for all the trouble he causes. If he was a talented but disruptive player like Ron Artest or Terrell Owens I could see some team picking him up, but I just don't think he is worth the risk. Like it was said earlier, the only team I could see taking that risk is Oakland because of the problems in their front office.

I think Owens will probably be next in Dallas considering that he is now 35 and his numbers continue to drop each year. If he were a less disruptive player I think he could stay despite that, but the way he attracts negative attention will likely force the Cowboys to cut him. I think that was what part of why the Cowboys traded for Roy Willams.

Hopefully all of this Jerry Jones coming to the realization that the Star on the helmet and diva players don't win championships, teams win championships.

 

[FlockOfSeagulls]

some players just don`t get it

 

[makemlaugh2003]

"Pacman" was a lousy fit in Dallas for quite a few reasons...

...first off, he's an obvious reclamation project with preposterous amounts of baggage because of his off-field behavior, and the Cowboys should truly try to distance themselves from players with troubled pasts, no matter how talented. I'm a huge Cowboys fan, and was very impressed with the on-the-field accomplishments of the 90's dynastic squad, but could have done without the seemingly incessant knuckleheaded behavior of many of its players, among them Michael Irvin and Nate Newton, most notably.
But in terms of on-the-field compatability, it wasn't a wise move, either. Jones is hardly a shut-down defensive back, often miserable in attempts at one-on-one coverage, and he is best suited, defensively, in a Cover-2 type scheme, not the blitz-happy package the Cowboys run usually with success. They can't rely on guys like Jones (or a healthy Roy Williams, either, as they discovered a couple seasons back) to handle receivers alone when the blitz doesn't get to the opposing quarterback. He's best as a help guy, the kind that can provide underneath, centerfield assistance and occasionally nab a pick that way, and has little defensive value otherwise. I think he could have had some merit as a return specialist, but he'd have to be a Deion Sanders-calibre kick returner before his off-field behavior could be tolerated, and likely not even then.
I doubt his career is over. SOMEONE will bite and take a chance that the recalcitrant talent will eventually develop SOME maturity...I mean, look at how many dreadful teams there were in the NFL this past year (the Lions, obviously, but also Cincinnati, Kansas City, St. Louis, Seattle, Cleveland, Oakland), and most of them were horrid defensively, with the possible exception of the Raiders. I'm glad the Cowboys washed their hands of this knucklehead, though, although I'm worry he's being scapegoated for their underachieving season when, in fact, it was almost none of his fault (injuries to key players on both sides of the ball were a culprit, sure, but they need to upgrade their linebacking core and secondary rather badly). And, for what it's worth, I hope some lug like The Big Show completely demoralizes him during his likely future wrestling "career"...in the context of pro wrestling, of course. "Go me! Go me! I'm the way mondo happy hysterical dancing banana!"-----

 

[Tickle Fiend]

Pacman Jones doesn't believe his days in Dallas are done
3:03 PM Sat, Jan 10, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon E-mail News tips

Pacman Jones went weeks without talking to the media after the Jivin' at the Joule incident. Days after the Cowboys announced plans to cut him, Pacman appeared on the CBS pregame show, with a lawyer by his side in Studio City, Calif.

"I think I'll be playing football next year," Pacman said. "If I had to pick somewhere, I think I might be back in Dallas. I love Dallas. I wouldn't mind playing nowhere else, but I do love the Cowboys."

Host James Brown asked Pacman if he had an "inkling" that Jerry Jones might give him another shot.

"Yeah, I do," Pacman said with a big smile.

Anybody else have a feeling that Wade Phillips wasn't smiling when he heard that?

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/pacman-jones-doesnt-believe-his-days-in.html

 

[makemlaugh2003]

I'm sure Phillips wasn't smiling, but I'm also sure it won't really matter in the end

Again, to repeat, I love the Cowboys, and they're my favorite professional sports franchise of all time (I saved that "America's Team pic with Landry and the Lombardi trophies in it to my paint program, by the way lol), but I, since I AM such a big fan, am forced to admit that Wade Phillips is essentially a classic Jerry Jones era-figurehead-yes man-no real power coach. Jones, sadly, is a self-important, pudding-headed alien from the Planet Ignoramus and, though he may know business, he knows as much about football as I do about running for Miss America. He can't stand a coach with authority or power or presence...in other words, anyone that creates the illusion that the team might not be HIS. Don't forget, the first thing this moron did when he first breezed into Big D was fire Tom Landry, one of pro sports' true icons, innovative geniuses and class acts. What Landry did with his last Cowboys team, turning a group of over-the-hill former-stars and unproven youngsters into a team that went 3-13, was truly remarkable. In the hands of virtually anyone else, no one would be talking about last season's Lions as the FIRST team to ever go 0-16.
But instead, Landry was discarded, as was Jimmy Johnson when his friendship with Jones unravelled because ol' Jerry wouldn't give Johnson any credit for helping rebuild the franchise in the early nineties. Barry Switzer was tolerated because he was a classic lickspittle, fired ultimately only because his brain was made of paper machie and the team fell unceremoniously apart under his watch just two short years after their last Super Bowl triumph. Dave Campo? Another yessir, yessir bootlicker. Why ELSE would a guy last three years in Dallas with back-to-back-to-back 5-11 records? Bill Parcells was smart enough (though his ego is pretty damned huge, too) to realize that the town wasn't big enough for he and Jerry, and wisely left, and now we have Phillips, who can't realistically command respect and lead this team to the promised land so long as Jerry and Terrell Owens, ANOTHER megalomaniacal chucklehead, are running rampant.
If Pacman is asked back, it certainly WOULDN'T be by Phillips, obviously, and if Jones does it, he just further establishes himself as the George Steinbrenner of the NFL. Though he has helped some (with the aid of MANY advisors who actually UNDERSTAND pro football, make no mistake about that), Jones has mostly left a slimy, reprehensible trail of idiocy all throughout one of the most gloried franchises in all of pro sports. What Phillips did with a club that was without its franchise quarterback for three games, without its star tight end at peak health for almost half the season, without its two top running backs for weeks on end, and missing its best safety all season, cannot be overlooked, except, of course, by Emperor Jerry.

 

[bellytickling]

Good he sucked anyway, the Cowboys need to get rid of all the cancer in the locker room so they can make the playoffs again and finally win a game.