Pacman's Decision expected this week

Tough love...

 

At issue may be how much the Titans organization was looking for official cover.

The idea that the team can "do the right thing" and some other team can resign a player with problems means any team punishment can be circumvented. The "punishment" angle for misconduct has to be league wide, and have permanent career impacts.

 

Honestly, the Titans are better off if he misses the whole year. nine has made this point before, and I agree with him. By the time Pacman could return and practice with the team, the season would be almost over. Either we are in the playoff hunt, and thus playing well without Pacman, or we are not, and are thus out of the picture anyway. It's possible we could be almost there and need a boost. But would Pacman provide it? He would be rusty and lack chemistry with the existing secondary. He would also be a huge distraction at a critical time in the season.

Perhaps more importantly, if Pacman is gone the whole year, we get a cap relief for this season, and his contract does not lose a year from it, meaning we get to keep him under his rookie deal for one more year.

 

I'm not sure how much cap relief we actually get. Obviously his pro-rated portion of his SB will still count. Not sure about his salary. I thought I read somewhere that we get relief from the roster spot, but not from the cap.

 

I think it'll be reduced to an 8 game suspension, just like Chris Henry's suspension...

 

The help comes from not losing a contracted year, and sliding pro-rated bonus a year into the future.

I agree with the assessment, and think that the FO wants this to be a league mandated thing for a full year to make it so only Pacman suffers, and not the team and its finances.

Which is how it should be.

 

the anticipation is killing me come on already Goodell.

 

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070522/SPORTS01/70522074/1027

Headline mis-leading (as usual for Kuharsky). Goodell stated he hasn't received all of the information yet so he couldn't set a timetable on when to rule. (Implying he would when he got further info as opposed to not EVER setting a timetable like Kuharsky's headline implies)