Sheldon Richardson Arrested on July 14 for street racing, resisting arrest

[BigDan]

He's already suspended for 4 games, so the team has plenty of time to decide what to do. His low contract means there is not a lot of money involved right now. They have a viable replacement in Williams - he was going to have to start for those 4 games anyway.

Personally, I would prefer they keep him away from camp if they can, see how the criminal situation plays out, see what the league proposes to do (I'm sure they are in contact with the commissioner already).

I don't want any taint from all this hanging over the team on opening day, it's good that there's plenty of time before then to sort this out.

 

[flgreen]

Putting my green tinted glasses firmly in place, trying to come up with some positives on this.


The prosecutor has announced that they are not moving forward on the felony child endangerment. Don't know why, because if I'm on a jury, and he has a child in a car that's going 143 MPH, he's going to jail for child endangerment.

Mo. has, in the very recent past, had riots. Think Richardson is going to get the kid glove treatment. Pig statement or not. Think jail is now off the table.

The NFL is a different matter. Think he is very likely to get a year out of football over this. The fact that he tried to keep it a secret is not going to bode well. Plus the NFL is going to show how tough they are on every one, not just Brady.

Next summer, his value will be in the toilet. Even if he returns to his previous form (he should) and doesn't get busted again, he is very high risk. Any infraction will send him home again for another year. Don't see teams wanting to risk a mega contract on a guy who has 3 pot busts, this stupid case, then trying to deceive the league, all in 2 years in his file. Even with behavior clauses in his contract, teams will still be hesitant.

The Jets CS will be around him more then any one else, and hopefully have a good feel if he has really turned it around, or is just trying to con people again. if they are convinced he has reformed, it's very possible they could get him re-signed at a bargain price.

 

[Jets31]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say he doesn't get much for this. 2 games suspension.

He is charged with traffic violations which is basically nothing and resisting arrest which is bad but based on what I've been ready I would say it will be reduced or dropped because of circumstances.

No gun charge because the state has very loose laws and no child endangerment because he got lucky. That could have been the biggest one.

They said they all smelled of pot but that means nothing. They were not caught with anything.

 

[Johnny Unite Us]

Sheldon Richardson Arrested on July 14 for street racing, resisting arrest

Hi hearing is October 27. A good lawyer will find some reason to push that back to next Feb or March, so I think he will be available to play. I don't think the league will take action until after the legal hearing since nobody was hurt, there were no drugs in the car, and apparently there are no gun charges.

Sheldon will be available after the bye. It's up to them if they want to use him.

I would. He can go to prison after we win a championship, if that's what the courts decide.

In the meantime, get out there and make plays.

 

[BlindsideD'Brick]

Just because I feel like stirring the pot (so to speak)...Chalk this up to another Idzik player that failed.

Great. Let's stir up THAT hornets nest.

 

[Superman55]

Does he have any value in your opinion?

Little. It may be "selling low," but 1 strike till a 1 year suspension a year after sitting out likely 8-10 games, he will never have a time where you can sell him high. That ship has long sailed. Just like the Browns can never get a 1st rd pick for Josh Gordon again, after the owners rejected such a trade 2 years ago, we will NEVER be able to get more than 3rd rd pick for him. His cap number is also never more than $3.5 mill...so the most likely scenario is the jets let him play out his contract and he walks for nothing...Id still be okay moving him next draft, IMO. It might be the extra value that puts us ahead of team 'x' when we try to move up. That's my thinking anyway.

 

[Elias]

Little. It may be "selling low," but 1 strike till a 1 year suspension a year after sitting out likely 8-10 games, he will never have a time where you can sell him high. That ship has long sailed. Just like the Browns can never get a 1st rd pick for Josh Gordon again, after the owners rejected such a trade 2 years ago, we will NEVER be able to get more than 3rd rd pick for him. His cap number is also never more than $3.5 mill...so the most likely scenario is the jets let him play out his contract and he walks for nothing...Id still be okay moving him next draft, IMO. It might be the extra value that puts us ahead of team 'x' when we try to move up. That's my thinking anyway.

i agree with that. I would give him up in a heart beat if it could net us a top qb.

 

[cysporsche]

i absolutely agree

+2 Agree, there is still too much value in the idiot. I wonder what the Mother of the 12 year old boy is saying about Sheldon taking him on a 143 MPH run from Police, while the adults were puffing on reefer ? You know she is pissed off !:gollum-screaming-sm

Go Jets...Cyborg

 

[Metjetgal]

I hope they suspend this schmuck for the yr.

 

[ucrenegade]

I agree with Bronx...best thing we can do right now is just wait. Cutting him would be a foolish move, anyone who thinks he wont have value once he returns from what will likely be a lengthy suspension is being naive. He is young and an excellent player...there is always value there.

In truth, I think the best case scenario is he gets a full year suspension. Thankfully we drafted Williams, so the impact is partially blunted for this season. A full year suspension also pushes Richardson's contract back a year, leaving him more or less on his rookie deal through 2017, with another year on the tag. That's where his trade value kicks in. 3 years of a still young beast of a DT, even with 2 strikes, will net us at least some value.

Time to give a bit in the talks with Mo, and then move on from this POS at the first chance of netting decent value in a trade. He is a loud mouth idiot...don't care how good he is, don't want him on the team.

As a side note, him being an idiot for what he did aside, the dude has only made $4M so far in his NFL career. take away taxes and union fees and agent fees, etc, and there is no way he has taken home more than $2M. to be so dumb as to almost kill your career before making any real NFL money is so foolish it is laughable.

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[Mainejet]

Listen, I really don't want to be guilty of a rush to judgment here, but I think Sheldon is a lost cause.

First of all, the guy must be stupid. One second yesterday he's talking to the media about how he made a mistake and it won't ever happen again.

Well, now this that happened AFTER the weed infraction? This guy is a liar and a scumbag as far as I'm concerned.

I'm also convinced he wasn't just high on weed when he got pulled over for racing a Bentley at 143 miles per hour with a 12 year old boy in the car. Somebody that would do something that stupid is high on something far worse.

I believe if given another drug test he would pop for something like crack, cocaine, or meth.

In regards to the gun, I don't have any problem. It's legally registered from what I am hearing and he didn't try to shoot the officer. People sometimes need guns for protection and I believe the players should be able to carry to protect themselves.

As for the rest of the crap with Sheldon? This is it for me. I hope the Jets resign Mo for the big bucks and let Sheldon play out his contract and leave in FA.

Just throwing it out there, but I heard on NFL radio this morning that Mike McCagnan KNEW that the Jets needed a new defensive lineman. The speaker claimed that the GM and HC know who the idiots are in their building. They knew Sheldon was trouble waiting to happen. They knew he'd eventually get suspended.

At this point, he could be looking at a season long suspension and that just proves how unreliable he is. If you're constantly getting suspended, what good are you? It doesn't matter how well you play, if you get to experience that in such short doses because he's constantly getting suspended, the bad overcomes the good. The good is no longer worth retaining.

 

[hobson54]

this sheds a little light on the charges (and non-charges)

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york-je...dson-not-charged-for-drugs-child-endangerment

LORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The prosecuting attorney from St. Charles County in Missouri, which is handling the Sheldon Richardson case, shed some additional light on the matter Friday morning in a phone conversation with ESPN.com.

This will answer some of the questions that emerged late Thursday, when news of the July 14 arrest first broke.

Even though police sought a felony charge for child endangerment, the prosecutor's office -- after a two-week investigation -- decided not to charge Richardson because "we didn't think there was enough evidence to support that beyond a reasonable doubt," prosecuting attorney Tim Lohmar said.

"You might think, 'He was driving 143 mph with a child in the backseat, isn't that enough?'" Lohmar said. "There has to be some sort of intent on the part of the actor, causing immediate danger to the child. We looked at it closely, but we felt there wasn't enough."

Officials didn't reveal the identity of the child, but it's believed it may have been a relative of Richardson. In such cases, authorities sometimes find it difficult to prosecute because there can be a lack of cooperation from the child's family.

Lohmar said there were no drug-related charges because police found no marijuana in the car.

"We're pretty darn sure we know what was going on there," he said. "It reeked of marijuana ... but without the (marijuana) itself, you don't have enough evidence to support drug charges."

There was "nothing illegal whatsoever" with regard to the handgun, according to Lohmar. Guns are legal in Missouri, and Richardson possessed it in the proper manner, he said.

A few other details: Richardson's car was towed and he was transported to the police station, where he was arrested, booked and released, all within an hour.

Richardson, already facing a four-game ban for violating the league's substance-abuse policy, figures to receive additional discipline for what could be a violation of the NFL's personal conduct policy. The league already is reviewing the matter.

"All relevant information will be taken into account," league spokesman Greg Aiello said in an e-mail.

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

Our hero. I wonder if he would autograph it?

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... and this is 12 DAYS after he was suspended.

TRAIN-WRECK

Thats what you're looking at in this picture, you are looking at a human train-wreck, a guy in full self-destruct mode.

 

[BigDan]

One more thing: I seriously doubt that this young dumbass has the experience or skill to be throwing a 5000lb Bentley around at 143mph. Where the hell does he get off thinking he's qualified to do that? One little twitch of the wheel and that car would have been barrel-rolling down the highway.

A total jerk on so many levels, he's another poster-boy for what a lot of folks think about the NFL: a dumb brute with more money than brains, too much too soon, a failing of our society for even making these situations possible.

Ok, I'll put the soapbox away....

 

[jets82]

IMO its the twelve year old that's just takes this over the top and makes it totally unexceptionable. Its bad enough that he did what he did but to do this all with a twelve year old kid in the car is just sick. So let's see, not only was he racing at speeds of up to 143 mph (with a twelve year old in the car). He then fled from the police, driving recklessly while driving with his lights off (with a twelve year old in the car). Once getting caught, he resisted arrest (with a twelve year old in the car) and was in possession of a loaded handgun and smoked marijuana in the car (with a twelve year old in the car). I hate to say it but I'm starting to agree with other Jets fans that this dude has to get traded and if that fails cut.

Note: Icing in the cake is he didn't even tell the Jets. What kind of a fool is this kid? There immaturity and just plain stupidity and this was just plain stupidity.

 

[ucrenegade]

richardson will be playing in buffalo next year maybe sooner

 

[Bronx]

Sheldon's explanation: I thought it would be fun

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

Sheldon's explanation: I thought it would be fun

As I said in the training camp thread:

This is why I hate drug addicts, they are totally unreliable and selfish muthaeffers who will eff-up a wet dream. I don't care what they do to themselves, but the damage they inflict is never limited to only themselves, they always wind up hurting the people around them too, starting with family and extending to anyone who is in a position where they have to depend on these self-centered narcissists. Thats why I DID NOT for one second buy his remorseful tweets following his suspension. I said at the time that I have ZERO confidence this guy won't eff-up again. I don't like to be cynical, but I've lived long enough to know that nothing short of a religious conversion or a similar character transforming epiphany can change guys like Sheldon Richardson. As my friend Teddy Atlas likes to say; people who are born round don't die square.

BTW I don't really mean that I hate drug addicts, just that I hate being in a position where we have to rely on one.

 

[Superman55]

richardson will be playing in buffalo next year maybe sooner

This is equal to the Geno will be cut by August posts.

First, he's going to be suspended. Jets arent cutting him as he works his way through a rehab process and gets help. Jets will let him rehab, try and comeback and rebuild his image, etc.

May he be traded? Maybe. But if the Jets cut him this year, it will be $5.9 dead money on this year's cap. Wont happen.

If they cut him the following year, it will be the last year and no dead cap money...that may make sense...but as an organization, it looks bad.

I doubt there is any chance he is not a Jet, unless traded, until his cap friendly deal is done. His biggest cap hit is next year at a grand total of $3.19 mill...

http://overthecap.com/player/sheldon-richardson/2194

He is quickly becoming a Josh Evans type.

 

[Elias]

I don't think we cut him either