Brent can return week 11

[RonSpringsdaman20]

How 'bout we just hope they can both improve the team?

and that's what I meant... by hope it's all worth it...

 

[Idgit]

and that's what I meant... by hope it's all worth it...

For the life of me, I'm not sure what I thought I was responding to when I read your first post.

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

For the life of me, I'm not sure what I thought I was responding to when I read your first post.

allgood.. I just want the defense to improve enough to have a shot at securing a playoff spot.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Someone at the bottom of the roster, who probably hasn't been active yet this year. Could also be someone who the team thinks is just massively under performing.

That could be anyone.

 

[Frosty]

I'd like to see a highly motivated Brent next to a highly motivated Sam.

that really spells...CHAMPIOnSHIP....

 

[iceberg]

How 'bout we just hope they can both improve the team?

Agreed. All this "jerry loves atte tion!!!" Gets old n annoying to sort through.

 

[Zordon]

Bring back Tagliabue!

 

[lostar2009]

Might as well go after Vickerson.

 

[CCBoy]

Agreed. All this "jerry loves atte tion!!!" Gets old n annoying to sort through.

I'm to the point I can hardly yawn...the real life issues get debased by juvenile insults. Agreed, Ice...but are you interested a tad for Sunday?

 

[CCBoy]

that really spells...CHAMPIOnSHIP....

lol, at least a solid rotation.

 

[Bluestang]

Stallworth also did not miss an entire year of football in the interim. He did his jail time in the off-season so it is a little different

Donte didn't retire from football on his own, like Brent.

When he plead guilty to the charges, on Apr 1, it was during the offseason because the event originally happened Mar 19.

Goodell suspended him for the entire 2009 season, following his time spent in jail in July.

The timeline of events is different for Brent because his event occurred in season and he retired from football to remove himself from the team and get through his legal proceedings which took much longer for them to happen than Stallworth.

Brent's ordeal occurred in Dec 2012, Brent's trial and conviction didn't happen until Jan 2014. He waited much longer for his trial, whereas Stallworth took a plea bargain and served his jail a few months after his deal.

 

[gimmesix]

So is he officially on the team but won't be counted against the roster until Week 11, or does Dallas have to re-sign him first?

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Goodell seems to have a random number generator or magic 8-ball.

 

[gimmesix]

Nevermind. Found the answer. He's on the team, but doesn't count against the roster during his suspension.

 

[Joe Realist]

and then he will hurt his hamstring and be done for the year.

 

[Joe Realist]

Just in time for the Boys to make their injury plagued swoon in December.

fixed it!

 

[Bluestang]

 

[DallasEast]

http://cowboyszone.com/threads/rumor-from-nfln-on-brents-suspension.297633/page-4#post-5650770

Not surprised one bit.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Donte Stallworth was suspended a whole year without pay for DUI manslaughter, and that was his first offense IIRC.

but he also didn't go to jail for a year like Brent, who in effect will be missing two years of football

 

[21Savage]

Donte didn't retire from football on his own, like Brent.

When he plead guilty to the charges, on Apr 1, it was during the offseason because the event originally happened Mar 19.

Goodell suspended him for the entire 2009 season, following his time spent in jail in July.

The timeline of events is different for Brent because his event occurred in season and he retired from football to remove himself from the team and get through his legal proceedings which took much longer for them to happen than Stallworth.

Brent's ordeal occurred in Dec 2012, Brent's trial and conviction didn't happen until Jan 2014. He waited much longer for his trial, whereas Stallworth took a plea bargain and served his jail a few months after his deal.

But where you are getting caught up is in the motive for retiring in the first place. Do you think he was the sole proprietor of the decision to retire or do you think it was a wink-nod, gentleman's agreement between his team, the Cowboys and the league office to avoid any fiasco with him trying to play with the situation over him or the league trying to suspend him before the legal process took it's due course?

Judging by his agent's statements about them appealing the ruling, it sounds like the latter. So it is really a 30 game suspension, which is then unfair. I personally think the suspension is going to get reduced and the league is just saving face with this initially stricter suspension in light of the Rice situation and their new efforts to crack down on domestic violence etc