The Cowboys cut an innocent player

[RockThatBlue]

Yikes.

 

One day after the wide receiver was informed he had been cut by the Cowboys for facing misdemeanor petty larceny charges in Virginia, Whitehead's agent, Dave Rich, announced that police had the wrong guy all along.

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000821801/article/police-drop-charges-against-wr-lucky-whitehead

[jvan1973]

He would have been cut anyway

[NFLfan]

1 hour ago, RockThatBlue said:

Yikes.

 

One day after the wide receiver was informed he had been cut by the Cowboys for facing misdemeanor petty larceny charges in Virginia, Whitehead's agent, Dave Rich, announced that police had the wrong guy all along.

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000821801/article/police-drop-charges-against-wr-lucky-whitehead

 

That is embarrassing for the police. They reported that they had arrested Whitehead when he was not in the state. And everyone assumed the player was guilty. It turns out he was telling the truth after all. Hopefully another team gives him a chance.

[Lucky Colts Fan]

This is a weird story.  The Cowboys made an example by cutting him, but he's innocent because the as-yet-unidentified criminal provided Whiteheads' personal information, i.e. SSN to the police when he was arrested, and looked enough like Whitehead to pass the officers' eye-test when they looked him up.

 

But the Cowboys are saying they have been giving him chances since last year, and this was basically the last straw.  So are Lucky and his doppelganger connected?  Is he hiding his doppelganger until this all blows over?  Is there even a doppelganger, or is "Lucky" Whitehead some kind of Keyser Soze that has law enforcement chasing its' own tail?  Is this some weird internet-scheme case of identity theft?

 

The bottom line is: Do the Colts need a return specialist?

[NFLfan]

Quote from the article:

 

Garrett also had this to say Monday on Whitehead's maturity: "When you have someone in your program, in this environment, in this structure, and they don't grow and develop and they make the same mistakes over and over again, it's time to move on."

 

I wonder if that applies to Ezekiel Elliot??? 

[Valpo2004]

On 7/25/2017 at 7:19 PM, Lucky Colts Fan said:

This is a weird story.  The Cowboys made an example by cutting him, but he's innocent because the as-yet-unidentified criminal provided Whiteheads' personal information, i.e. SSN to the police when he was arrested, and looked enough like Whitehead to pass the officers' eye-test when they looked him up.

 

But the Cowboys are saying they have been giving him chances since last year, and this was basically the last straw.  So are Lucky and his doppelganger connected?  Is he hiding his doppelganger until this all blows over?  Is there even a doppelganger, or is "Lucky" Whitehead some kind of Keyser Soze that has law enforcement chasing its' own tail?  Is this some weird internet-scheme case of identity theft?

 

The bottom line is: Do the Colts need a return specialist?

 

My wife had a friend who was pulled over and promptly arrested because there was a warrant out for her arrest.

 

She spent a couple days in jail before it turned out that someone else that was involved in something gave cops her name instead of their own. 

[jvan1973]

32 minutes ago, Valpo2004 said:

 

My wife had a friend who was pulled over and promptly arrested because there was a warrant out for her arrest.

 

She spent a couple days in jail before it turned out that someone else that was involved in something gave cops her name instead of their own. 

There has to be more to the story than that.  A judge wouldn't issue a warrant if that were all of the details

[teganslaw]

Whitehead was signed by the Jets, so it seems that he received some punishment after, all. 

[Valpo2004]

20 hours ago, jvan1973 said:

There has to be more to the story than that.  A judge wouldn't issue a warrant if that were all of the details

 

I think it might be as simple she did something that they don't immediately arrest you for but you have to show up in court for.  She gave them her name and did not show up in court.  A warrant gets issued automatically after that.

 

I'm not sure of all the details but I do know she was arrested because someone else used her identity. 

 

[aaron11]

On 7/25/2017 at 7:57 PM, NFLfan said:

Quote from the article:

 

Garrett also had this to say Monday on Whitehead's maturity: "When you have someone in your program, in this environment, in this structure, and they don't grow and develop and they make the same mistakes over and over again, it's time to move on."

 

I wonder if that applies to Ezekiel Elliot??? 

star players get treated differently

 

every team does this including the colts

 

if somebody of whiteheads caliber(who is this guy?) had been accused of the same things as Marvin Harrison they would  have been cut.

 

remember darick Rodgers and jon newsome?  they would still be here if they were pro bowl level players that committed the same exact incidents

 

edit- i believe you are a vikings fan.  i think its fair to say that AP was treated a little differently than some random camp body would have been during his legal ordeal

[BloodyChamp]

Is every cut going to be a personal, social issue now? Gah...

[JCPatriot]

16 hours ago, aaron11 said:

star players get treated differently

 

every team does this including the colts

 

 

Yeah, I don't understand why people seem surprised by this sometimes.  It's not just like this in the NFL or in sports.  It's like this in every occupation.  If you have a special skill set that is valuable to the company and is difficult to replace, then you can get away with more than somebody that can be easily replaced by somebody else that does the same thing just as well.  That's life.