dcfanatic;2326106 said:
Forget what happened that night.
Should he be going to 'after parties' at hotels and drinking knowing all the BS he's been thru so far in his short lived NFL career?
IMO, no. And to me that says he's still not willing to stop making stupid decisions. He's selfish and he doesn't get it.
Has it been confirmed by anyone that Jones was drinking?
I agree that going to after parties is not a good idea for him based on his background, but didn't Jerry Jones say he agreed that it was OK for him to go to this "party," not knowing that he would get into it with his security for whatever reason?
I'm just saying that I don't think it was considered a situation where he would make a stupid decision. But for whatever reason it happened.
And while again I think it was stupid of him, I'd like to know more about the situation before judging his willingness to stop making stupid decisions. Sometimes the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
We don't know anything about how much of a scuffle it was (was it a loud argument and a couple of shoves? who shoved first?), exactly why it happened, whether Jones feels remorse for it happening, etc. So it is hard to draw any conclusions other than the fact that it is dumb to let yourself get entangled in any controversy when you are under such strict scrutiny.
If it was me, I'd stay away from any place where such a thing could happen. But I don't like the party lifestyle, so I can't say how hard it would be for someone who does to choose not to hang out with Ludacris (or whoever it was).
I just don't think this is cut-and-dried that Jones is guilty of returning to his previous lifestyle (which would be a crime worth punishment). He did something stupid that really isn't worth more than him being scolded for being stupid ... unless he was publicly intoxicated, picking fights, sexually harassing women, etc.
If we see him for this incident as being the same thug he was before declaring that he was going to try to turn his life around, then we are quick to convict on insufficient evidence. We hold the one high-profile, stupid incident against him, and do not give him "credit" for doing things right for several months, such as being polite to a reporter bugging him about what happened.