Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall’s repeated legal troubles have gotten him a meeting with the commissioner.
The Denver Post is reporting that Marshall met with Roger Goodell for two and a half hours last week, and that Goodell will announce next week whether and for how long Marshall will be suspended for violations of the league’s personal-conduct policy.
The meeting included not just Marshall and Goodell, but also Marshall’s lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, and longtime Broncos receiver Rod Smith. It’s not clear what role Smith played in the meeting, but it’s certainly safe to say that Goodell wishes Marshall would conduct himself the way Smith always did — as a professional on and off the field. Smith is expected to formally retire today.
(UPDATE: A reader pointed out that Smith pleaded guilty to verbal harassment in 2000, and was sentenced to anger-management counseling sessions. He has spoken publicly about how counseling helped him.)
Marshall has not been convicted of a crime since he was drafted in April of 2006, but he has been arrested multiple times, and when Goodell announced his new personal-conduct policy, he said, “It’s not enough to simply avoid being found guilty of a crime.” So league discipline is a near certainty; the only issue is whether Marshall was able to convince Goodell to be lenient.
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July 24th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I was going to say thank you so muchFlorio for writing something about Denver which didn’t involve a total smear job. Then I went back and saw MDS as the author and it all makes more sense.
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I thought Brandon Marshall was going to be refered to “Pacman” on this site, or did I misread that
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:28 am
How in the world did Goodell have time to meet with him while he is telling the Packers how to handle their own business. Who does he think he is, David Stern?
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Well that will settle Marshall but what about Marshawn shouldn’t he be in the same situation?I mean after all he has plead guilty shouldn’t Goodell be as fair when it comes to the Bills or does he just punish the players on teams he doesn’t like?
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:58 am
how would you prefer journalists to paint the marshall situation? in a positive light? “Brandon Marshall is alleged to yesterday have done one hell of a job slapping around his old lady”. This on the heels of an astounding performance where Brandon was able to put away a 26 of JD and then promptly drive his vehicle home. He’d made it almost 80% of the way there before being pulled over by the police who obviously had nothing better to do than to harrass a star NFL Talent.”
that what you’re expecting?
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July 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am
just dont spray the rog, champagne!
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July 24th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Rod Smith beat his woman, Florio.
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July 24th, 2008 at 11:20 am
By positive I meant simply stating the facts of the issue and not putting his usual twist of the knife at all things Denver related that florio usually does. I understand your need to defend him though seeing as how you probably hang off every word he says as scripture.
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July 24th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I heard they had lunch at McDonalds.
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July 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Rod Smith made a mistake, was punished for it, learned from it, and has been squeaky clean ever since. In fact, every player should try to emulate the behavior and attitude of the Rod Smiths out there. People are going to make mistakes, but can those people learn enough from those mistakes to not repeat them?
Brandon Marshall’s problem is that he’s still a kid, and still thinks of himself as a kid. He’s not mean, he’s not a thug, he’s not a “bad” person. He just needs to grow up, and there are few out there that realize this more than the MAN that sat next to him in Goodell’s office.
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July 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Rod Smith never once owned up to beating his wife/GF/baby mama. She later recanted her story to the cops, and Smith still had to cop a plea anyway (to “verbal harrassment”). The prosecutors were going forward with the charges even without her support because of the physical evidence that she’d been beaten up.
Smith publicly thanked his girl for changing her story (AKA lying) and “restoring his reputation”. Then he even made backhanded comments about how he was actually the one getting abused in the relationship.
He talked about it on Oprah, but never admitted to anything more than the “anger” that led to the “verbal harrassment”. As far as he’s concerned, the beating never happened.
The only good thing you can say is that he kept his nose clean after that. But Smith is no one to be emulated.
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July 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
“Rod Smith beat his woman, Florio.”
verbal harassment is way different than “beating his woman”. you dont even have to say much and your girlfriend/wife can call the cops on you.
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