00:00These stories come around far too often and you have to deal with them, but it's a May 23rd complaint
00:07and now an arrest and a full-on investigation to Packers running back Josh Jacobs, who yesterday morning was arrested
00:14and booked into Brown County Jail in five charges.
00:18There's his mugshot right there. Again, innocent to proven guilty. Obviously, we just saw that with the Stefan Diggs case,
00:25but this one seems to have much more legs to it than the Stefan Diggs case with his private chef.
00:31He's been accused of five charges, battery slash domestic abuse, criminal damage to property slash domestic abuse, disorderly conduct slash
00:41domestic abuse.
00:42And here are the two kind of action words, if you ask me. Strangulation and suffocation. And the final charge
00:51was intimidation of a victim.
00:54So obviously, he was arraigned, I guess, yesterday or arrested yesterday. And now he's going to have to fight for
01:01his freedom.
01:01And he's going to have to prove to a jury, if he gets that far, that five different charges against
01:08him are all nonsense.
01:09Now, I'm not going to claim to know anything about it, because I don't. I read the same thing you
01:14read and everybody else read.
01:17Sometimes you read a case and just on face value, you say to yourself, guilty.
01:24Sometimes you read a case on a face value, you say to yourself, man, I don't know. Seems a little
01:29forgazy.
01:30And obviously, it's case by case how you feel about it. I know nothing about this case whatsoever, other than
01:36what's been made public.
01:37So there's no inside information. I haven't talked to anybody at all.
01:41But it seems like he did something really, really bad. And whatever's going to come his way again.
01:47Innocents are proven guilty. These are allegations. He gets his day in court.
01:52He gets to disprove everything. And knock on wood, it didn't happen.
01:56Because that means a woman was not physically injured by a much more physical and bigger football player.
02:02But if any of it is accurate and true, he should go to jail for a long time.
02:10He should never play football ever again.
02:12And I wonder now how the Green Bay Packers and how the NFL handles this.
02:19They collectively, not the Packers, I can't speak to them, but the NFL, as you know, has a bit of
02:24a shoddy track record when it comes to things like this.
02:28And their go-to is typically, we're going to let the process play itself out before we get involved.
02:36Okay, I understand that. Like I said, innocent until proven guilty.
02:40I'm not sure if you can do that on this one.
02:43No.
02:44Strangulation and suffocation.
02:47Yeah.
02:48Those are two pretty bad words.
02:49Yeah, now normally, now again, I don't know about this case, but something happened in Philly back in 2020, right
02:56before COVID.
02:57He ended up missing that whole year with a player named Abdul-Harrera, who did this, was accused of the
03:02same thing, to the point where he left hand marks on his fiancé's throat.
03:07So when the cops arrived, they saw his hand marks on her throat.
03:11I was told usually when they charge that, it's because the police have physical evidence on her neck.
03:18So most likely, not 100%, but most likely when the police arrived after this complaint, they saw physical markings on
03:27the victim's neck, and that's why he was charged that way.
03:30For me personally...
03:31Now, he's denied all the charges he gets.
03:33Again, for me personally, if, we don't know innocent or guilt yet, if there were physical marks on her throat
03:40made by him, that's enough for me to say, you can't play in the NFL this year.
03:46That's enough for me, if true.
03:49If true.
03:49Now, here's a quote from his lawyer.
03:52Josh vehemently denies the allegations.
03:55Okay, again, that's fine.
03:56I expect that.
03:59And this matters in the early stages of investigation with important evidence that has not even made public.
04:06That's according to his lawyers.
04:07We ask for fairness and restraint while the judicial process takes its course.
04:12He's in his third season with the Packers.
04:14Obviously, I was with the Raiders before that.
04:17Really good football player.
04:18Wildly talented football player.
04:20The Green Bay Packers, obviously, are aware of this.
04:22The NFL has come out and said, we're aware of the report, have been in contact with the club.
04:27He's a former rushing title winner when he was with the Raiders before going to Green Bay.
04:31He was a first-team All-Pro selection in 2022.
04:35And he's down almost 10 years now into the NFL.
04:38Look, I hope it didn't happen.
04:39Me too.
04:40I do, because the thought of Josh Jacobs, you know, suffocating and strangling a woman, I assume it's his partner,
04:48fiance, girlfriend, wife, whatever it might be, makes me sick to my stomach.
04:52But he is due his day in court.
04:54He is.
04:54He is given the opportunity, rightfully so, to defend himself and to prove to us that the allegations are false.
05:00I'm always interested in how the NFL reacts to it, what the NFL does.
05:05And we've seen far too many cases where the NFL doesn't do all that much.
05:10Now, I've always said this, Ray Rice is one of my closest friends in the world.
05:14He and I grew up in the same town.
05:16Ray's like family to me.
05:17So I know what it's like to be friends with someone who's accused of it.
05:20Obviously, in Ray's case, there's video.
05:22And the video speaks for itself, which is why Ray Rice, who was originally suspended for four games.
05:28After telling the truth.
05:29After telling the truth to both Roger Goodell and to the owner of the Baltimore Ravens.
05:35And then the thing, you know, grew like wildfire.
05:37And Ray Rice obviously never played another downed football again.
05:41Which was sad to me as a friend.
05:43What he did was wrong.
05:45He deserved to be punished for what he did.
05:47I want to be clear about that.
05:49And I know full well, if there was no video of it, Ray Rice would have continued to play football.
05:53Oh, yeah.
05:54Doesn't change what happened.
05:55It was wrong.
05:56It was offensive.
05:57And it was very hard to watch because I know his wife as well.
06:00That being said, Ray Rice is one of the few guys that paid for his actions with his career.
06:08Yes.
06:09I'm not sure if anyone else ever has, as a matter of fact, when it comes to domestic violence.
06:13Okay?
06:14Right.
06:14So I'm always interested in what the NFL does.
06:18The NFL likes to hide behind the notion of we're going to let the legal process play out before we
06:25get involved.
06:27But, man, as the details of this one comes out, or the details of the allegations come out,
06:33do you really want him on a football field on a Sunday representing what I was always told is the
06:41thing that they protect the most,
06:42which is the shield, the NFL logo?
06:45Right.
06:46You can't.
06:47You can't.
06:47I don't think you can.
06:49You can't.
06:50And, again, I'm not condoning even like a backhanded slap in a couple's argument.
06:56Right.
06:56All of it's wrong.
06:57I don't condone that.
06:57All of it's wrong.
06:58But I can tell you this.
07:00As the father of a daughter and the husband of a wife, strangulation and suffocation is not something that's thrown
07:10out there willy-nilly.
07:11It's just not.
07:12Usually not.
07:13Now, are there women out there that invent domestic abuse for this reason and another?
07:17Yes.
07:17Sadly, we've seen it.
07:18We saw it with Stefan Diggs literally a month ago.
07:21Yep.
07:21And Stefan, thankfully, got his day in court, and she was debunked very, very quickly by his attorney.
07:27Every part of it.
07:28Every part of it.
07:29It was just an obvious money grab or some kind of grab, but he didn't do the things that she
07:33accused him of.
07:34So I'm glad that we let that play out.
07:36This one just feels kind of different.
07:38This one just feels different.
07:38You do have to become silent.
07:38This one is from you.
07:38You
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