Brandon Marshall has been sent to the NFL's version of the principal's office.
Two NFL sources said Marshall, the Broncos' star receiver who had 102 receptions last season, met Friday morning with league commissioner Roger Goodell in New York.


It's all a little up in the air at this point. maybe a game or two.



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Hasn't he been arrested 3 times? The best person you can compare this to is Henry, who after his 3rd arrest got 8 games. I'm not sure why everyone feels it will only be a game or two, but that is what I keep hearing. If your going on what he has done with other habitual offenders he should be getting more then a couple of games.

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I'm smelling a pacman..i mean Adam Jones type of punishment.

This is why drafting too soon in the year is problematic... I had Marshall on 2 out of 3 fantasy teams last year and know how good he can be. It would be a shame if he got suspended - especially if he cant keep away from those McDonalds bags.

Marshall is not likely to be suspended that long, primarily because despite all his incidents, he never has been convicted of a crime since joining the NFL in 2006, when the Broncos drafted him in the fourth round. He was arrested on charges of domestic violence and false imprisonment in March 2007, but those charges were dropped two months later.
In October 2007, Marshall was arrested for driving under the influence, but he has pled not guilty to that charge and his trial is pending.


Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said recently he didn't think Marshall should be suspended, saying most of his troubles stem from a stormy relationship that has since been terminated.


Goodell is supposed to say something next week, it could be anything as far as suspension goes. The DUI case is pending and won't be resolved until after the 3rd Game so the start of the suspension might be connected to that. Heck, the length of the suspension might end up being connected to that? With Goodell who knows?

Adam Schefter has reported that he thinks it will be 4-8 weeks.

Good lord. Let's say it ends up being 6 weeks. What does this do to the value of Cutler? Scheffler? Selvin Young? Darrell Jackson?

Seems a bit extreme for the offenses.

Wow, That would be a big suspension. Time to drag Javon Walker in now, I guess. No convictions, beating victim, a lot of headlines, should be good for 3-4 weeks.

Agree 100%. I don't approve of the domestic violence pattern of his but it would seem this should be a first offense for him. 4-8 weeks seems heavy handed.

Its amazing when an athlete beats his wife or girlfriend, drives drunk, does drugs and all the rest they seem to be doing.A 4-8 week suspension seems to be to long.If they worked in most other jobs they would be terminated immediately. If they were in the military they could face court martial. Maybe if these guys started getting banned PERMANTELY they would begin acting like mature people. Maybe then they could do their jobs the right way.

Even though there is like 40 grammatical errors and a wicked run on sentence, I couldn't agree more with this post.

Yes I agree with you. Thats what happens when we get fed up. )

Outside of drugs, and DUI, I have never worked at a job where trouble outside my job would affect my actual job unless it caused me to miss time from work. The only reason a DUI matters to my job is because I drive a truck, and I know ahead of time that my license will be suspended for a year if I was to get one. It isn't my job disciplining me in this situation, it is the law.

I could go out and get in a fight in a strip club every Friday night and spend Saturday in jail, and be back to work on Monday and nothing would ever be said, because in terms of my job, it is none of their business.

I personally think the NFL gets far too involved in things that players do on their own time in many instances, especially when we now have a commissioner that suspends players before they have been convicted of crap. It shouldn't matter how many times someone is accused of something, we have a justice system that is used to determine innocence or guilt, we don't need a dictator playing judge and jury before the fact on his own.

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Guess that is good news for you, if I would get arrested forthese things my ass would be finding a new job.

Same thing here. I guess it depends on your job. If you're part of management you're expected to be a face of the company at all times.

I think that is why Goodell doesn't mess around with this nonsense. These guys are the face of the NFL. When they do dumb shit it reflects poorly on the product they are selling.

Does your company follow you around all weekend? Or get an update from the local police departments regarding what you did over the weekend?

And are they going to fire you over an accusation that might never hold up in court? Personally, I would welcome that and sue the hell out of them.

I just get more and more tired of punishments being handed out by somebody when a player has been convicted of nothing. Let the justice system run its course.

Hell, I have been listening pretty closely to sports radio the last few nights and people (fans) are raising hell over the "collusion" going on in Baseball because Barry Bonds isn't signed.

Are fans of each individual sport that much different in that they hold players in a different regard?

Also, what would people say if Albert Haynseworth were to be released by the Titans rather than resigned? All I heard last year was people talking about how they needed this guy to get on the field, and all offseason how the Titans need to take care of business and get this guy a deal. This guy committed the equivalent of a crime "on the field" and served a relatively minor suspension then was welcomed back. In the real world, say if this had been two attorneys battling it in a case, and one walked out the courtroom and gashed the others face open with his foot, somebody would be sitting in prison very likely. You wouldn't have even needed a trial for this, as the act was right there on film and replayed a thousand times. This is a guy who has no business playing in the NFL again.

Anyhow, I am done rambling about this. I know I am in a losing battle in terms of the Goodell worship.

It would be nice to no the full story on the domestic issues.

There was obviously an argument, and charges were filed and "dismissed" because he attempted to block a taxi from leaving his house with her in it. Not anywhere near suspension worthy in my opinion. Also not any business of the NFL in my opinion.

DUI situation, goes to court in September. If guilty, that puts him in the first level of the substance abuse program, am I correct?

Outside of that, he has been ticketed by the police for an illegal lane change and not having his license or insurance on him. Why should the NFL care about this?

He was present when a teammate was shot and killed. What does this matter in regards to his playing status?

What else has he been accused of since entering the NFL? I won't get into the college issue, because by and large, college students can get drunk and stupid on a regular basis. Be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you are going to jail. Be drunk enough, and you are going to do something stupid. He wasn't in the NFL, and it was quite some time before he came to the NFL, so it shouldn't matter anyway.

So again, and I "think" I am done with this for now, why are "accusations" that get dismissed with no charges sticking factored into a suspension decision?

Hopefully, with Rod Smith acting as his mentor at this point, the dictator Goodell will go a little easy on him in regards to what he did to his two examples (Pacman and Henry), and go back to meddling in the Packers and their trade talks over Favre, something else he has no business sticking his nose in.

Someone has to be the whipping boy when a problem like the NFL's image problem occurs. In this case it happens to be a group of players instead of just one. You get paid millions of dollars to represent a product then you must follow the rules. Kobe Bryant lost his endorsments after his rape allegations b/c it put the product he was the face of in a negatve light. Don't be a thug, don't beat your wife/girlfriend, don't do drugs and you will be fine.