If this is all true...it's better that he's gone.

[Loki]

Ooooooh. Two teams in one city.

You got me there.

But please tell us all how the NFL is a free market enterprise.

Especially when the fans of one city are forced to root for a team with a racist name.

[ech1997]

Josh Innes (WIP) was on this Louisiana radio show talking about DeSean Jacksopn and the Eagles locker room, etc, kinda matches up with the article. Here is the YouTube clip, scroll to the 49:00 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPq-qwCh1kU

[Two Gap Penetrator]

I disagree with all of this

The fans are your CUSTOMERS and you DO owe them an explanation when you are changing the product on them. You ABSOLUTELY do. These are the people who have made you successful. JEFFREY LURIE SHOULD GIVE ME A HOT STONE MASSAGE FOR ALL OF THE BULLSH*T I'VE BEEN THROUGH WITH THIS TEAM!!!

[Eagle In Ohio]

The same reason every fan is owed an explanation

Why? Seriously, why? What makes you, The Ref in LA, entitled to an explanation?

I'm getting tired of this talk.

The fans, the paying customers, have invested a lot of time, energy, and most importantly money, into this team, a lot of fans have been doing it for decades. THE EAGLES have been the ones to tell us that they're the Gold Standard, and that their primary goal is winning the Super Bowl. We didn't put that label on them, THEY said it. They have not been consistent in their quest for that goal, sometimes showing outright incompetence. Now, they get rid of without a doubt, one of the three best players on this team who was still under contract for three more years, and coming off of a career year in his first year in this new offense, got nothing for him, let the national media run with a story that basically paints said player as a gangbanger, and then that same player ends up signing with a hated division rival. Does that sound like the Gold Standard to you ? Yeah, after all of that, someone in a position of power in that FO needs to get in front of a microphone and explain how this move gets the team closer to that trophy that we've been waiting for since three years prior to Kennedy being killed.

[GroundedBird]

Yes and, in my opinion, they should have if the story wasn't a factor, given the damage that perpetuating the story could do to his reputation. "Today our organization has chosen to part ways with Desean Jackson. While we are aware of the story that was recently published on NJ.com, the decision to release Desean was based solely on where we see our team heading from a personnel standpoint." End of story.

the next questions would be:
When did you find out about the issues brought forth in the article?
How involved was he in these activities?
To your knowledge did he do anything illegal?
What, if anything, did you do to address these activities?

The questions go on and on.

[Mt Iggle]

I was originally upset over them dumping their best Receiver, whom I have liked, and he has done well.
But if this is the case - OK. It is telling not much peer support.
But I kind of agree with Slizz - they don't have to say crap. They have a captive audience.