After the Bengals re-signed him in the 2008 offseason, Marvin Lewis basically said "this is your last chance". He had no altercations after that, and played well as a #4 WR. So do we just ignore his "improvements" just because his career was cut short, and therefore spent the majority of his NFL career in legal troubles? I'm willing to bet that had he lived to end his career properly, he would've "stayed clean" until the end.
"WhiskeySam" wrote:
So we're supposed to ignore the circumstances under which he died because he said he was a changed man? This is a man with a criminal history of anger problems, violence, and substance abuse. He keeps a clean nose for 18 months because he's on his final chance with his employer. Then he dies during an argument with his fiancee when he jumps in the back of the truck she's trying to leave in and is thrown from the vehicle. What's more likely: he jumped in the truck for some noble attempt to stop her because she was impaired or he jumped in the truck because his anger got the better of him again?
I am floored that there seems to be no one here concerned that his fiancee may have been fleeing in fear for her life. The insinuations that she was a gold-digger and possibly murdered him are based on what? The fact that he died in apparently the same kind of situation that kept him in trouble throughout his adult life gets glossed over simply because he said he'd changed? It's not enough to say you've changed. Your actions have to bear it out.
"Packers_Finland" wrote: