The Ezekiel Elliott suspension will reside as one of most memorable Friday news-dump sequences in the NFL’s history with this tactic, and the result has Jerry Jones “furious,” according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (on Twitter). The Cowboys owner and recent Hall of Fame inductee said as recently as late last week the domestic violence issue that now stands to drastically alter Elliott’s season was not an issue. Jones previously categorized the accusations against Elliott as being without merit, and while the running back will appeal the suspension, as of now the Cowboys’ top offensive weapon will be shelved until late October. This stands to give the defending NFC East champions a tougher road to defending that title.
Here’s more on the second-year running back’s suspension.
- An NFL source relayed to Schefter this process took as long as it did because the NFLPA was responsible for a lengthy delay in delivering information requested in mid-December. Schefter reports (Facebook link) the NFL did not receive said information until mid-May.
- Elliott’s ban was based on two components: the accusation of repeated domestic violence in July 2016 and the incident in March involving the running back removing a woman’s top on a parade float, Mark Maske of the Washington Post tweets. The running back’s alleged involvement in a DJ breaking his nose at a club last month was not considered, Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News tweets.
- While the above NFL source accused the NFLPA of delaying this investigation considerably, union executive director DeMaurice Smith wonders independently why this took so long. “I just have a hard time understanding how come an investigation takes a year, results in a 165-page report and takes so long and so many person hours,” Smith said, via Albert Breer of TheMMQB.com. “As a homicide prosecutor and violent crimes prosecutor, I had to try a violent offender or a murderer 100 days after arrest or the person goes free. I know there’s a couple of prosecutors that are working with the league on these personal conduct issues but I gotta tell ya there’s a whole group of prosecutors and law enforcement folks laughing at them going, ‘Why does it take so long?‘”
Thug League.
Completely ignoring or minimizing terrible/criminal behavior in order to defend one of his star players…
This is why Jerry Jones is an NFL Hall of Fame owner.
Couldn’t have said it better
What are they mad at you could put romo in at RB and he will rush for 9 tds with that o-line
True… but only twice. Then he’d injure his shoulder and/or back.
Being accused of a crime is not evidence of a crime. Try being accused of a crime sometime amd see if you are so quick to judge another! The NFL should not have the right to enforce punitive judgements simply to appear tough on domestic violence! Zeke is being punished for past players actions and the NFLs lack of reaction to a terrible crime. Amd might I add, why is it that Joe Mixon and Caleb Brantley simply walk in the front door without even a threat of punishment?
Mixon was punished from both the court and the college….not sure what you mean here