Titans CB Jones to meet with commish
Suspended cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones will meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in New York today about a possible early reinstatement.
Goodell suspended the Tennessee cornerback in April for the 2007 season and promised Jones' case could be reviewed after the Titans' 10th game, which is Nov. 19 in Denver. But today's meeting will come two days before the Titans' eighth game.
The meeting first was reported by The Tennessean.
The Titans will not have a representative at the meeting, and Jones will be accompanied by someone from the NFL Players Association.
Goodell suspended Jones in April for violating the league's personal conduct policy. At the time, Jones had been arrested five times since being drafted by the Titans with the sixth pick overall in 2005. He was arrested a sixth time in June on charges from a Las Vegas strip club fight.
The cornerback told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in October he thought he had done enough to be reinstated early.
"I did pretty much everything Mr. Goodell asked me to do. So all I can do is just wait and go back to speak with him," Jones said.
Judge critical of Reid's home: A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.
"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.
"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.
Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in "the 'hood," for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.
O'Neill said that searches of the Reid family's house and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.
Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, were in court but declined to comment. The judge said the parents clearly loved and supported their children and had tried many times over the years to get them help.
Bad news for Denver: Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said after practice that receiver Rod Smith's hip isn't recovering fast enough and he won't be activated this season. In addition, rookie defensive end Jarvis Moss broke his right shin in practice Thursday. Moss, the 17th overall pick in the 2007 draft, will have surgery in the next few days and will be out for 3-4 months.
Schaub won't start: Houston's Matt Schaub will not start Sunday's game against Oakland after suffering a concussion from a helmet-to-helmet hit last week in San Diego. With Schaub out, the Texans will go with Sage Rosenfels.
The concussion suffered by Schaub was a result of a hit by Chargers cornerback Drayton Florence, who was fined $15,000 Thursday by the NFL for his helmet-to-helmet hit.