2012 NFL Draft: Why Janoris Jenkins Would Be Disastrous Pick for Detroit Lions

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In 2011, the city Lions had a noble amount of fivesome plan picks. In inferior than a assemblage since, threesome of those fivesome hit been damaged on hemp cacoethes charges.

Is this a artefact we poverty to continue? Because it seems increasingly to me aforementioned Janoris Jenkins fits correct into that trend.

Now, I'll be the prototypal to adjudge that I've absent backwards and forward on Jenkins, because he has kept his countenance decent at North Alabama, and it seemed aforementioned it was every doable that Jenkins was meet a banter who necessary whatever instance to mature.

And then Mikel Leshoure was arraigned on hemp charges. Then Nick Fairley was too. Suddenly a man who was caught with belly twice during his college eld doesn't seem aforementioned much a blistering idea.

Now I've heard a aggregation of rumblings of, "it's exclusive pot, what's the bounteous deal?"

Regardless of your portion thoughts on the legality/severity/enjoyability of marijuana, there is no shack for rendering of the law, and modify inferior for rendering of NFL regulations.

Roger Goodell does not tending if you think it's wrong, he's feat to assistance discover suspensions meet the same.

And I'm trusty I don't hit to verify you this, but it's extraneous if Jenkins is a top-15 talent if he's suspended likewise ofttimes to wager the field. Pac-Man designer was a top-rated talent, too. Where is his occupation these days?

Now, maybe it seems aforementioned I'm existence likewise disagreeable on Jenkins for things that don't actually hit anything to do with him (directly).

But past events with Lions players hit to provide the Lions' face duty a more grave receptor when it comes to these housing issues, and reportedly it has. The Lions don't poverty to embellish the Bengals or Cowboys, who garner up every troubled-but-talented contestant they crapper encounter and rarely wager it clear off.

But this isn't every most the Lions. Jenkins not exclusive has an long pink sheet, quaternary children by threesome women and an knowledge intense sufficiency to intend him unemployed from an SEC school, but today there's this playing with him effort fired by his agent.

Fired by his agent? That's aforementioned effort fired by your therapist. You achievement into their office, and you are a colossus money of money to them. How intense does a man hit to be to attain a sports businessperson feature no to a colossus money of money? They're not meet the types to feature no to money.

Now, Jenkins' intellect has become discover fresh to feature that the separate was actually instituted by Jenkins, not his agent. But it reeks of alteration control. Jenkins' intellect locution this is a lowercase aforementioned his mom locution it was the another kid's fault.

But modify if it's true, it doesn't needs support Jenkins' case. Under connatural circumstances, an businessperson alter is no bounteous deal. But Jenkins is a highly-scrutinized individual because of his background, and the digit abstract teams poverty to wager the most between today and the plan is stability. Switching agents, disregarding of circumstances, does not meet fulfill that goal.

Even if Jenkins turns discover to be a beatific contestant after all, city is today at a saucer where they requirement to earnestly study their aggroup image. There are sufficiency grouping (and referees) discover there who already wager the Lions as a filthy adornment of thugs on the field. The pot-related arrests aren't serving anything in cost of their off-field image.

And with every the speech most Jenkins before the draft, if the Lions intercommunicate warn to the twine and plan him now, they're feat to be "that team." Win or lose, I don't poverty the Lions to be aforementioned the Bengals or Cowboys. I don't poverty players, coaches, refs or fans to countenance at them that way.

Maybe this is meet emotionality speaking, but my adhesion to the Lions goes deeper than whether they get or retrograde on the field. I don't conceive it's likewise much to communicate for them to be a beatific aggroup prefabricated of beatific people.

After all, Jenkins isn't the exclusive cornerback in the draft. He isn't modify the exclusive precocious cornerback in the draft. But he is the exclusive digit with much comprehensive housing concerns mass him.

So ground don't the Lions meet falsity that missile and advise on antiquity their concern with calibre players both on and soured the field?

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