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Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

How does a DUI not reflect character?

I know this much. If one random Sunday (say after a Cowboys game), they tested every driver who left FedEx, They would hand out no less than 10,000 DWI's.

I am not sure how a DWI reflects on character. All a DWI proves is that you drink and that you are capable of bad decisions after you drink (there is a revelation). Almost every person that I know who drinks has been behind the wheel at least once when they shouldn't have.

If someone gets a DWI and then never gets behind the wheel after a drink, I would say that person has good character. If someone gets a DWI and continues to drink and drive that would reflect either poor character or an addiction.

As far as the "character" issue regarding players. I think it is overblown and hypocritical. If Sean Taylor beat somebody up this offseason I wouldn't give a damn. If you are a marginal player, your nose better be clean. If you are a freak of nature, nobody including Joe Gibbs or G. Williams, cares if you get in trouble a few times. Just show up on Sunday.

Someone may say, "Well, they suspended Taylor when he received a DWI". So what, I would argue that the spitting incident was a worse reflection on Taylor and the Redskins than a DWI arrest.

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Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

I know this much. If one random Sunday (say after a Cowboys game), they tested every driver who left FedEx, They would hand out no less than 10,000 DWI's.

I am not sure how a DWI reflects on character. All a DWI proves is that you drink and that you are capable of bad decisions after you drink (there is a revelation). Almost every person that I know who drinks has been behind the wheel at least once when they shouldn't have.

If someone gets a DWI and then never gets behind the wheel after a drink, I would say that person has good character. If someone gets a DWI and continues to drink and drive that would reflect either poor character or an addiction.

As far as the "character" issue regarding players. I think it is overblown and hypocritical. If Sean Taylor beat somebody up this offseason I wouldn't give a damn. If you are a marginal player, your nose better be clean. If you are a freak of nature, nobody including Joe Gibbs or G. Williams, cares if you get in trouble a few times. Just show up on Sunday.

Someone may say, "Well, they suspended Taylor when he received a DWI". So what, I would argue that the spitting incident was a worse reflection on Taylor and the Redskins than a DWI arrest.

The media tends to over-blow certain things. It's more about severity of your infraction, not necessarily quantity of them, and that can be a fairly subjective matter.

In my opinion you've got to judge how it will affect your team in the locker-room. That's the #1 thing. Distractions during the season are the #1 locker-room killer. So when evaluating those with "character" issues. It just comes down to how will it affect your team chemistry...

With that said... Who's got the biggest "character" issues on the redskins right now?

Not the guy with the worst legal rap... nooo IMO it's not Sean Taylor, but rather B-Lloyd that has been isolating himself from the team and causing some locker-room issues. Everyones gotta take character into context.