Oct. 22, 2026
Veteran NFL Player Kicked Off Team For Bringing Gun To Practice
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RSS Feed This is a bizarre story that needs more context to fully understand. 7 year pro and defensive lineman Jordan Elliot is off the Tennessee Titans after the team says he went to his car in the player parking lot to retrieve a gun after an altercation with a teammate. Those who know Elliot say this is completely out of character for the husband and father of four, and “was a call for help more than a criminal act”. However, the NFL has a strict firearm policy; personnel are not allowed to bring guns anywhere at league facilities.
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00:00:09
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, October 22nd, and a still-developing story in the NFL. A player has been cut after bringing a gun to the team facility. But there's more to the story than that. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Ropes. This isn't a team you keep up with. This certainly isn't a player you keep up with. But you heard some of these details, and you certainly got curious.
00:00:35
Speaker 2: Yes, because this is.
00:00:38
Speaker 3: This is a story that needs some explanation because when you first told me the story, because yes, I wouldn't necessarily be that interested in a player I've never heard of being kicked off the team. But when you hear how people describe this guy and how much he is loved and he's a family guy, he's got a wife, he's got four kids, and then to hear that this is so out of character that he would do something like this, yeah, you got my attention.
00:01:09
Speaker 2: What's going on?
00:01:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:01:11
Speaker 1: And a lot of statements coming from the head coach himself have people asking that question, what is going on? Because some of the statements allude to something else maybe going on with this young man. And I say this young man, it is his seventh year in the league. He is a third round draft pick. His name is Jordan Elliott. Now he's a defensive tackle for the Titans. He has played in every game This year for them, they held him out the last game before they cut him, but he is a significant, or was a significant contributor to the team. He was an important piece. Before that, he was in San Francisco for a couple years. This is his first year actually with Tennessee, a two-year, $ 8 million contract gone. Now, the first details that came out, Robes, were that there was an incident, he brought a gun onto the facility, and.
00:02:04
Speaker 1: He was kicked out of the facility. Now, initially, the Titan statement didn't necessarily help clear anything up. This was really, really vague initially. But this is the first official word we got from anybody about the incident.
00:02:18
Speaker 3: Yes, they put out this statement on Thursday, October 15th. There was an incident at our team facility involving Jordan Elliott. Following our review of the incident, we have made the decision to release Elliott from our roster.
00:02:34
Speaker 2: We will have no further comment on the matter.
00:02:38
Speaker 1: What? So, obviously, every sports reporter started running trying to get comment on the matter. So, Rose, that was as vague as it gets. There was an incident bad enough. to not be dismissed from practice, not bad enough to be suspended. Robes kicked him off the team immediately, almost, after this incident. So October 15th, what exactly happened? Robes, by all accounts, it's NFL practice. We hear pretty often, it's pretty common, guys on the same team get into it at practice. That's common, and that makes sense. So this incident, what happened? Robes, from all indications, this didn't stand out. He got into it with a teammate.
00:03:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they described it as a minor altercation. And basically, coach or whoever on the field tells him, tells Elliot to go cool off, to get off the field. And so they assume he's back at the locker room, right? Just calming down, basically. And instead, he goes out to his car, which is in the player's parking lot. And I believe someone saw this on surveillance video, correct?
00:03:46
Speaker 1: One other player happened to see this and intervened. Essentially just saying, my man, what are you doing? Just stop. He stopped him from doing what? We don't know. What was his point? What was he doing? We don't know. And, Robes, it hasn't been answered if there's suspicion he was going to harm someone or harm himself. What was he doing? What was he doing? What set off somebody who plays football? Football for the past seven seasons in the NFL. He's gotten into some pretty good scrapes every single play. What happened?
00:04:24
Speaker 3: And even the guy who he got into the altercation with has been talking. And he even said, we're buds. We've never had a fight before. We've never had words before. We've hung out off the field. Mm-hmm. outside of the game and this was literally something minor so even he was confused why Elliot was that outraged or that upset that he would go to his vehicle to retrieve a gun that is a significant escalation that's even silly for me to even put it like that it's out of not only out of character of somebody who hasn't been described as violent or in any way threatening but it just it makes no sense.
00:05:09
Speaker 1: That anything on a football field would escalate to a point that someone wants to go get a gun. You can't make sense of it. And all those guys were there at practice who saw everything go down. It's inexplicable. So, Robes, as we just tell this story, you might be trying to figure out if you're hearing this for the first time, what was going on, what was happening. Well, what adds to the confusion of the story, Robes, are the words we hear from Coach Sala. The coach of the team... comes out later and has plenty of comments about this man. Robes, it's almost like his heart is broken that this guy is off the team now.
00:05:49
Speaker 3: What's insane is, and this is just coming at this story from somebody who doesn't follow the NFL, and I'm not following the ins and outs of what happens in the league, but I have heard you plenty where we have talked about so many guys who've been charged with crimes, where there is even video of them conducting violent acts, conducting, but yes, being violent with their girlfriends, domestic violence charges. And you always kind of laugh and say, like, it has to rise to such a high level for anyone to even be disciplined within the NFL, especially when they're Anchors of an organization or, you know, they're the go-to guys. They pretty much have immunity. And so this guy doesn't even do anything violent. And yet his career with the Tennessee Titans is over. $ 8 million gone.
00:06:50
Speaker 1: And it's possible his playing career is over in the NFL. And that is because, Rose, the difference in those incidents... You're a threat to the NFL environment. Being a threat.
00:07:04
Speaker 3: To your wife or to your girlfriend?
00:07:06
Speaker 1: You're a threat to our reputation. But you're not a threat to us physically. Rose, the idea of a gun at an NFL facility is just as big of a hell no as you can get. For anybody associated with a team, you just cannot... It just doesn't. So he's a liability now, Robes, if you're allowing somebody back on your facility. Would you hire somebody who got fired from their last place for bringing a gun to work?
00:07:37
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. But I also wouldn't hire somebody or keep somebody. on the job who was violent to people in his own home. You can understand where I'm coming from just because I don't know the NFL environment the way you do. And I'm just, as an outsider thinking that makes no sense to me. Somebody who actually commits an act of violence against another, uh, is kind of just embraced and accepted and not even questioned.
00:08:02
Speaker 1: Well, um, they do have wide ranging or the commissioner does to suspend. Um, But yes, still to your point, nobody gets kicked out of the league. I cannot remember the last time I heard of a team actually cutting somebody for being arrested for something.
00:08:20
Speaker 3: Which is wild to me because this is just the idea that he was going for a gun or that the gun was in the parking lot on the actual premises, but he didn't actually do anything violent. So that's where I look, a suspension, a some sort of a punishment.
00:08:36
Speaker 2: Yes, I totally get that. But I am kind of fascinated.
00:08:40
Speaker 3: And a little perplexed why it's such an extreme violation for that, but it's not considered really anything at all to actually commit a violent act.
00:08:50
Speaker 1: Oh, babe, this is a life or death act at the workplace. This is the shield. Baby, there is too much money at stake. Rose, he brought a gun to an NFL facility. There's nothing left to talk about. That part I actually understand.
00:09:07
Speaker 3: I don't.
00:09:09
Speaker 1: They seem to know that something else is going on with him to where if you know he needs help, is the first thing you do cut him or do you help him? But you just can't take a risk, baby, with somebody. You say he didn't commit a violent act.
00:09:24
Speaker 2: But he might have.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: That is a deadly one, essentially. Having that gun on that campus is a deadly. You have to assume the worst in that act. damn, that just sucks. The coach here, Robes, he started giving as glowing, I mean, listening to the sound bite, his heart is, he does, he seems heartbroken.
00:09:41
Speaker 3: And that's when this story just got really interesting to me beyond what I've already mentioned. But yes, the coach said this, referring to Jordan Elliott. He's a good man, made a terrible, had a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as a call for help more than a criminal act. He's not, never committed a crime in his entire life, and he pulled a gun in the parking lot.
00:10:05
Speaker 1: It makes you go, huh? Like, you don't know anything about him, but the words from the coach, you learn a lot. This is a guy who, yes, he's head coach now, but they work together in San Francisco as well. They know each other. They go back for a little while. He's never committed a crime and he just pulled a gun in the parking lot.
00:10:22
Speaker 3: Right. So then the coach goes on to say, why did he go off the rails and grab a gun? To me, those are small signs of a cry for help. Obviously there was something greater happening in the last year. The NFL has lost two outstanding men to taking their own lives because they may have been crying for help and everyone ignored it. I will stand on the table for Jordan's character and, My message to 31 other teams, if you need a hell of a run-stopping DT that can help.
00:10:53
Speaker 2: For our playoff run, give me a call.
00:10:55
Speaker 3: I'll tell you everything you need to know about him.
00:10:57
Speaker 2: He's a good man.
00:10:59
Speaker 3: Had a terrible lapse in judgment. That's a couple of questions here. So he got immediately.
00:11:07
Speaker 3: Kicked out of the Tennessee Titans for that act. But that doesn't mean that he wouldn't still be allowed to be hired in any other organization?
00:11:17
Speaker 1: The league will in all likelihood, no matter where he is, issue an official suspension of some kind. I don't know how severe it would be for something like this, but a suspension, whatever it may be. So even if another team does pick him up, he would still have to serve that suspension before he played. You just, as a front office person, are you going to take a risk on not only he brought a gun, but now the suggestion that he might be unstable or need help of some kind?
00:11:48
Speaker 3: It's weird because why would you put that out there that this was a mental health breakdown and then tell other teams, hey, got a.
00:11:56
Speaker 2: Good guy for you here. It's weird. And the other question I had, was there any implications?
00:12:04
Speaker 3: That he was going to use the gun on himself rather than his teammates.
00:12:09
Speaker 1: Again, nobody said that out loud.
00:12:10
Speaker 2: Because then he went to go talk about the suicides.
00:12:13
Speaker 1: The other guy needing mental health help, yeah.
00:12:16
Speaker 3: I didn't understand if there was a correlation that I was supposed to make between those two statements or between those two sentences.
00:12:23
Speaker 1: Again, a suggestion there that, yes, in that sentence, that he probably, I mean, mentioning two guys who've taken their own lives, Mentioning that, or is he just saying those guys needed some mental health help, and maybe this one does too? Again, Robes, right now it is just a mystery. What is not a mystery is how the NFL feels about guns on their campuses. Stay here. We have the actual NFL gun policy. All right, welcome back to Amy and TJ Robes. The NFL doesn't, they don't leave much room for error in terms of how they feel about the players having guns at all. This is their gun policy. I plucked this thing off ESPN's website. It's as plain as day. You're not supposed to have a gun.
00:13:25
Speaker 2: Yes, they make it very clear.
00:13:26
Speaker 3: They say you must not possess guns while traveling on league related business or whenever you are on the premises of the following a facility owned, operated or being.
00:13:38
Speaker 2: Used by an NFL club.
00:13:41
Speaker 3: A stadium, or any other venue being used for an NFL event, a facility owned or operated by the NFL or any league company.
00:13:49
Speaker 1: All right, hit them with that last line. Get them with the last line, heroes.
00:13:52
Speaker 3: Put simply, the league, the Players Association, and law enforcement authorities urge you to recognize that you must not possess a gun or other weapon at any time you are performing any service for your team or the NFL.
00:14:09
Speaker 1: Period.
00:14:10
Speaker 2: Period.
00:14:11
Speaker 1: They make it plain as day.
00:14:13
Speaker 3: Yes. And I was reading in another website, someone else brought up, it's not, it is a little similar, but in 2008, New York Giants receiver, do you know this Plaxico Burress?
00:14:24
Speaker 2: Am I saying his name right?
00:14:25
Speaker 1: Plaxico Burress, shot himself.
00:14:26
Speaker 2: Well, yes.
00:14:27
Speaker 3: He walked into a New York City nightclub with a handgun, walked out having shot himself in the leg.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: You are correct.
00:14:33
Speaker 3: But what followed after that Team suspension, a criminal case, a prison sentence, and a stalled career. And they're saying it's just a reminder, the NFL does not play. And one single firearm incident, even if it's you shooting yourself, can completely ruin and upend an NFL career.
00:14:51
Speaker 1: Rose, that duplexico was a wildly talented dude. He got a jail sentence and out of the league title. He didn't commit a violent act against anybody but himself.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: He accidentally shot himself.
00:15:07
Speaker 1: And they still brought the hammer down on him. Yeah, they don't play.
00:15:11
Speaker 3: So that was basically everyone saying perspective here. Jordan Elliott's probably in some serious trouble given this incident. And the NFL's opened its investigation against him already. So the writing is kind of on the wall if you look at past incidents and certainly this fairly ironclad policy that they have in place.
00:15:30
Speaker 2: I wasn't aware of it.
00:15:31
Speaker 1: It's almost like he was in trouble just having it in his car. Not even a matter of bringing it out. It's not supposed to be there anytime you're representing the league. So I hope the guy's okay. And, you know, he's going through it right now. His family's around him. I hope he's okay. And maybe this can be explained as a really, really bad thing. Lapse in judgment.
00:15:55
Speaker 3: A really, really bad lapse in judgment, but perhaps even the teammate who went out and stopped him could have prevented something that was so much more than just bad judgment.
00:16:04
Speaker 2: It could have been a life or death situation.
00:16:07
Speaker 1: All right, folks, this is something we wanted to put on your radar. There will be follow-ups on this one. We always appreciate you spending a little time with us. I'm TJ. That's Robes. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, October 22nd, and a still-developing story in the NFL. A player has been cut after bringing a gun to the team facility. But there's more to the story than that. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Ropes. This isn't a team you keep up with. This certainly isn't a player you keep up with. But you heard some of these details, and you certainly got curious.
00:00:35
Speaker 2: Yes, because this is.
00:00:38
Speaker 3: This is a story that needs some explanation because when you first told me the story, because yes, I wouldn't necessarily be that interested in a player I've never heard of being kicked off the team. But when you hear how people describe this guy and how much he is loved and he's a family guy, he's got a wife, he's got four kids, and then to hear that this is so out of character that he would do something like this, yeah, you got my attention.
00:01:09
Speaker 2: What's going on?
00:01:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:01:11
Speaker 1: And a lot of statements coming from the head coach himself have people asking that question, what is going on? Because some of the statements allude to something else maybe going on with this young man. And I say this young man, it is his seventh year in the league. He is a third round draft pick. His name is Jordan Elliott. Now he's a defensive tackle for the Titans. He has played in every game This year for them, they held him out the last game before they cut him, but he is a significant, or was a significant contributor to the team. He was an important piece. Before that, he was in San Francisco for a couple years. This is his first year actually with Tennessee, a two-year, $ 8 million contract gone. Now, the first details that came out, Robes, were that there was an incident, he brought a gun onto the facility, and.
00:02:04
Speaker 1: He was kicked out of the facility. Now, initially, the Titan statement didn't necessarily help clear anything up. This was really, really vague initially. But this is the first official word we got from anybody about the incident.
00:02:18
Speaker 3: Yes, they put out this statement on Thursday, October 15th. There was an incident at our team facility involving Jordan Elliott. Following our review of the incident, we have made the decision to release Elliott from our roster.
00:02:34
Speaker 2: We will have no further comment on the matter.
00:02:38
Speaker 1: What? So, obviously, every sports reporter started running trying to get comment on the matter. So, Rose, that was as vague as it gets. There was an incident bad enough. to not be dismissed from practice, not bad enough to be suspended. Robes kicked him off the team immediately, almost, after this incident. So October 15th, what exactly happened? Robes, by all accounts, it's NFL practice. We hear pretty often, it's pretty common, guys on the same team get into it at practice. That's common, and that makes sense. So this incident, what happened? Robes, from all indications, this didn't stand out. He got into it with a teammate.
00:03:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they described it as a minor altercation. And basically, coach or whoever on the field tells him, tells Elliot to go cool off, to get off the field. And so they assume he's back at the locker room, right? Just calming down, basically. And instead, he goes out to his car, which is in the player's parking lot. And I believe someone saw this on surveillance video, correct?
00:03:46
Speaker 1: One other player happened to see this and intervened. Essentially just saying, my man, what are you doing? Just stop. He stopped him from doing what? We don't know. What was his point? What was he doing? We don't know. And, Robes, it hasn't been answered if there's suspicion he was going to harm someone or harm himself. What was he doing? What was he doing? What set off somebody who plays football? Football for the past seven seasons in the NFL. He's gotten into some pretty good scrapes every single play. What happened?
00:04:24
Speaker 3: And even the guy who he got into the altercation with has been talking. And he even said, we're buds. We've never had a fight before. We've never had words before. We've hung out off the field. Mm-hmm. outside of the game and this was literally something minor so even he was confused why Elliot was that outraged or that upset that he would go to his vehicle to retrieve a gun that is a significant escalation that's even silly for me to even put it like that it's out of not only out of character of somebody who hasn't been described as violent or in any way threatening but it just it makes no sense.
00:05:09
Speaker 1: That anything on a football field would escalate to a point that someone wants to go get a gun. You can't make sense of it. And all those guys were there at practice who saw everything go down. It's inexplicable. So, Robes, as we just tell this story, you might be trying to figure out if you're hearing this for the first time, what was going on, what was happening. Well, what adds to the confusion of the story, Robes, are the words we hear from Coach Sala. The coach of the team... comes out later and has plenty of comments about this man. Robes, it's almost like his heart is broken that this guy is off the team now.
00:05:49
Speaker 3: What's insane is, and this is just coming at this story from somebody who doesn't follow the NFL, and I'm not following the ins and outs of what happens in the league, but I have heard you plenty where we have talked about so many guys who've been charged with crimes, where there is even video of them conducting violent acts, conducting, but yes, being violent with their girlfriends, domestic violence charges. And you always kind of laugh and say, like, it has to rise to such a high level for anyone to even be disciplined within the NFL, especially when they're Anchors of an organization or, you know, they're the go-to guys. They pretty much have immunity. And so this guy doesn't even do anything violent. And yet his career with the Tennessee Titans is over. $ 8 million gone.
00:06:50
Speaker 1: And it's possible his playing career is over in the NFL. And that is because, Rose, the difference in those incidents... You're a threat to the NFL environment. Being a threat.
00:07:04
Speaker 3: To your wife or to your girlfriend?
00:07:06
Speaker 1: You're a threat to our reputation. But you're not a threat to us physically. Rose, the idea of a gun at an NFL facility is just as big of a hell no as you can get. For anybody associated with a team, you just cannot... It just doesn't. So he's a liability now, Robes, if you're allowing somebody back on your facility. Would you hire somebody who got fired from their last place for bringing a gun to work?
00:07:37
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. But I also wouldn't hire somebody or keep somebody. on the job who was violent to people in his own home. You can understand where I'm coming from just because I don't know the NFL environment the way you do. And I'm just, as an outsider thinking that makes no sense to me. Somebody who actually commits an act of violence against another, uh, is kind of just embraced and accepted and not even questioned.
00:08:02
Speaker 1: Well, um, they do have wide ranging or the commissioner does to suspend. Um, But yes, still to your point, nobody gets kicked out of the league. I cannot remember the last time I heard of a team actually cutting somebody for being arrested for something.
00:08:20
Speaker 3: Which is wild to me because this is just the idea that he was going for a gun or that the gun was in the parking lot on the actual premises, but he didn't actually do anything violent. So that's where I look, a suspension, a some sort of a punishment.
00:08:36
Speaker 2: Yes, I totally get that. But I am kind of fascinated.
00:08:40
Speaker 3: And a little perplexed why it's such an extreme violation for that, but it's not considered really anything at all to actually commit a violent act.
00:08:50
Speaker 1: Oh, babe, this is a life or death act at the workplace. This is the shield. Baby, there is too much money at stake. Rose, he brought a gun to an NFL facility. There's nothing left to talk about. That part I actually understand.
00:09:07
Speaker 3: I don't.
00:09:09
Speaker 1: They seem to know that something else is going on with him to where if you know he needs help, is the first thing you do cut him or do you help him? But you just can't take a risk, baby, with somebody. You say he didn't commit a violent act.
00:09:24
Speaker 2: But he might have.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: That is a deadly one, essentially. Having that gun on that campus is a deadly. You have to assume the worst in that act. damn, that just sucks. The coach here, Robes, he started giving as glowing, I mean, listening to the sound bite, his heart is, he does, he seems heartbroken.
00:09:41
Speaker 3: And that's when this story just got really interesting to me beyond what I've already mentioned. But yes, the coach said this, referring to Jordan Elliott. He's a good man, made a terrible, had a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as a call for help more than a criminal act. He's not, never committed a crime in his entire life, and he pulled a gun in the parking lot.
00:10:05
Speaker 1: It makes you go, huh? Like, you don't know anything about him, but the words from the coach, you learn a lot. This is a guy who, yes, he's head coach now, but they work together in San Francisco as well. They know each other. They go back for a little while. He's never committed a crime and he just pulled a gun in the parking lot.
00:10:22
Speaker 3: Right. So then the coach goes on to say, why did he go off the rails and grab a gun? To me, those are small signs of a cry for help. Obviously there was something greater happening in the last year. The NFL has lost two outstanding men to taking their own lives because they may have been crying for help and everyone ignored it. I will stand on the table for Jordan's character and, My message to 31 other teams, if you need a hell of a run-stopping DT that can help.
00:10:53
Speaker 2: For our playoff run, give me a call.
00:10:55
Speaker 3: I'll tell you everything you need to know about him.
00:10:57
Speaker 2: He's a good man.
00:10:59
Speaker 3: Had a terrible lapse in judgment. That's a couple of questions here. So he got immediately.
00:11:07
Speaker 3: Kicked out of the Tennessee Titans for that act. But that doesn't mean that he wouldn't still be allowed to be hired in any other organization?
00:11:17
Speaker 1: The league will in all likelihood, no matter where he is, issue an official suspension of some kind. I don't know how severe it would be for something like this, but a suspension, whatever it may be. So even if another team does pick him up, he would still have to serve that suspension before he played. You just, as a front office person, are you going to take a risk on not only he brought a gun, but now the suggestion that he might be unstable or need help of some kind?
00:11:48
Speaker 3: It's weird because why would you put that out there that this was a mental health breakdown and then tell other teams, hey, got a.
00:11:56
Speaker 2: Good guy for you here. It's weird. And the other question I had, was there any implications?
00:12:04
Speaker 3: That he was going to use the gun on himself rather than his teammates.
00:12:09
Speaker 1: Again, nobody said that out loud.
00:12:10
Speaker 2: Because then he went to go talk about the suicides.
00:12:13
Speaker 1: The other guy needing mental health help, yeah.
00:12:16
Speaker 3: I didn't understand if there was a correlation that I was supposed to make between those two statements or between those two sentences.
00:12:23
Speaker 1: Again, a suggestion there that, yes, in that sentence, that he probably, I mean, mentioning two guys who've taken their own lives, Mentioning that, or is he just saying those guys needed some mental health help, and maybe this one does too? Again, Robes, right now it is just a mystery. What is not a mystery is how the NFL feels about guns on their campuses. Stay here. We have the actual NFL gun policy. All right, welcome back to Amy and TJ Robes. The NFL doesn't, they don't leave much room for error in terms of how they feel about the players having guns at all. This is their gun policy. I plucked this thing off ESPN's website. It's as plain as day. You're not supposed to have a gun.
00:13:25
Speaker 2: Yes, they make it very clear.
00:13:26
Speaker 3: They say you must not possess guns while traveling on league related business or whenever you are on the premises of the following a facility owned, operated or being.
00:13:38
Speaker 2: Used by an NFL club.
00:13:41
Speaker 3: A stadium, or any other venue being used for an NFL event, a facility owned or operated by the NFL or any league company.
00:13:49
Speaker 1: All right, hit them with that last line. Get them with the last line, heroes.
00:13:52
Speaker 3: Put simply, the league, the Players Association, and law enforcement authorities urge you to recognize that you must not possess a gun or other weapon at any time you are performing any service for your team or the NFL.
00:14:09
Speaker 1: Period.
00:14:10
Speaker 2: Period.
00:14:11
Speaker 1: They make it plain as day.
00:14:13
Speaker 3: Yes. And I was reading in another website, someone else brought up, it's not, it is a little similar, but in 2008, New York Giants receiver, do you know this Plaxico Burress?
00:14:24
Speaker 2: Am I saying his name right?
00:14:25
Speaker 1: Plaxico Burress, shot himself.
00:14:26
Speaker 2: Well, yes.
00:14:27
Speaker 3: He walked into a New York City nightclub with a handgun, walked out having shot himself in the leg.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: You are correct.
00:14:33
Speaker 3: But what followed after that Team suspension, a criminal case, a prison sentence, and a stalled career. And they're saying it's just a reminder, the NFL does not play. And one single firearm incident, even if it's you shooting yourself, can completely ruin and upend an NFL career.
00:14:51
Speaker 1: Rose, that duplexico was a wildly talented dude. He got a jail sentence and out of the league title. He didn't commit a violent act against anybody but himself.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: He accidentally shot himself.
00:15:07
Speaker 1: And they still brought the hammer down on him. Yeah, they don't play.
00:15:11
Speaker 3: So that was basically everyone saying perspective here. Jordan Elliott's probably in some serious trouble given this incident. And the NFL's opened its investigation against him already. So the writing is kind of on the wall if you look at past incidents and certainly this fairly ironclad policy that they have in place.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware of it.
00:15:31
Speaker 1: It's almost like he was in trouble just having it in his car. Not even a matter of bringing it out. It's not supposed to be there anytime you're representing the league. So I hope the guy's okay. And, you know, he's going through it right now. His family's around him. I hope he's okay. And maybe this can be explained as a really, really bad thing. Lapse in judgment.
00:15:55
Speaker 3: A really, really bad lapse in judgment, but perhaps even the teammate who went out and stopped him could have prevented something that was so much more than just bad judgment.
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Speaker 2: It could have been a life or death situation.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, this is something we wanted to put on your radar. There will be follow-ups on this one. We always appreciate you spending a little time with us. I'm TJ. That's Robes. We'll talk soon.