Quote:I think Hardy would step in as day 1 Leo and make an impact….he isn't just a player that is available and we got money to spend.

 

Has Hardy had any other issues with the law/team?  I mean if this is 1 incident and the lady (whether paid off or not) dropped the charges basically….I don't see how we can label him as some terrible human being.  

 

I do think Hardy is an exceptional talent, but his situation is not nearly that simple.

 

He does have a track record. He was suspended in college for missing multiple team meetings, sparring with coaches, and repeatedly missing class. On top of that he was benched and criticized publicly in college and NFL for lack of work ethic and bad behavior. He was the guy that started a lot of the ethical combine questioning stuff because teams asked him a lot about if he was bi polar, had schizophrenia, or any other mental issues. Even if you are in the camp that thinks asking that stuff was inappropriate, the fact that there were wide concerns about mental issues among many of the teams says something to me.There were a lot of concerns about that coming in, which is by far the reason that he fell to the 6th round.

 

Off the field, he sustained a concussion in 2011 after crashing a motorcycle while speeding, and has two other speeding violations on his record...and also a driving without a license/registration that was rectified and dismissed. Yes obviously some of all of this sounds trivial, but it adds up. 

 

If Dave looks digs into it and is willing to give him a chance I support it (even though a whole lot of people won't, for deserved reasons), but I feel like most people that want him are simply like "OOOOOO LOTS OF SACKS GET HIM!" without looking at what the potentially severe ramifications of doing so could be. 

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