It takes more than talent to be a football player!
What ever this program is that the Dallas Cowboys have for troubled souls simply isn’t working these days. Joseph Randle, who was released in 2015 for getting in trouble, has been arrested for the fifth time in 17 months on Sunday. The charges were aggravated battery, possession of hallucinogens/marijuana and criminal damage to property and his bond was set at $100,000.
Randle’s release in early November last year was partially due to his involvement in sports gambling.
The Cowboys wanted him to get counseling to help him deal with his off-the-field issues and he refused, two sources have told ESPN’s Jean-Jacques Taylor. The team believed it had no choice but to release Randle because it couldn’t trust him, the sources said.
Earlier this month, Randle was arrested on an outstanding warrant in Irving, Texas. According to police, Randle had stopped at his ex-girlfriend’s home around 3 a.m. local time, but residents of the home turned him away and called police. He was stopped, and the outstanding warrant was discovered.
Then one week later, he was suspended four games by the NFL under the league’s personal conduct policy. Also in November, he was arrested on suspicion of criminal threat, assault of a law enforcement officer, battery, disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and interference with a law enforcement officer after an altercation at a Kansas casino.
Then Randle was arrested in February 2015 in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas but not charged after a domestic disturbance complaint. And there the time that he was detained on a shoplifting charge in October 2014 at a Dallas area mall when police said he tried to take a bottle of cologne and a pack of underwear from a department store.
Combine this with the recent mishaps with Randy Gregory and Greg Hardy this year and that’s too much!
The Cowboys need to draft and sign better characters.