The Athletic article<\/a>, it\u2019s not good, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAnd you would imagine if it was flipped, it\u2019d probably be the same thing here?\u201d Harbaugh said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we probably would have had to let him go,\u201d Schneider admitted.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it\u2019s just the nature of like \u2014 when you\u2019re the team, it\u2019s different than the second-chance team,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cIt\u2019s totally different.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. I get that,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n
The rest of the episode includes some of the due diligence the Seahawks performed, with Schneider making it clear that he spoke to former Alabama coach Nick Saban about Arnold. There\u2019s also a scene in which Schneider and Arnold\u2019s agent, Nicole Lynn, tentatively agree that Arnold will accept an offer from the Seahawks.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing in the episode regarding whether incoming ownership was consulted regarding the move. It would be fair for Vinod Khosla and\/or his wife Neeru (who will be the controlling owner, if the deal is approved next week) to push back on the notion that it would be acceptable to the Seahawks to be Arnold\u2019s \u201csecond-chance\u201d team if the facts reported were sufficiently \u201cshocking\u201d to prompt the Seahawks to cut him, if Arnold had already been on the roster.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say Arnold doesn\u2019t deserve a second chance. But it seems premature to declare him ready for one. The criminal case against him is pending. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.<\/p>\n
Mike Vick, for example, got his second chance after he pleaded guilty to dogfighting charges and paid his debt to society by serving a prison term. At this point, the charges against Arnold are unresolved. The facts that Schneider found \u201cshocking\u201d could be entirely true \u2014 Saban\u2019s vouching for Arnold notwithstanding.<\/p>\n
The whole thing is just odd. And, as a source with another team put it last week regarding the Seahawks\u2019 willingness to move forward with Arnold, \u201cThey won, and they don\u2019t care<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nNew ownership might feel differently. Especially after watching the latest episode of Hard Knocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s still unclear why the Lions cut cornerback Terrion Arnold after he was arrested on eight felony charges.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-860632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}