PFT: Dolphins to release McMichael

[BACH]

FINS SAYING FAREWELL TO McMICHAEL

A league source tells us that the Miami Dolphins will soon be releasing tight end Randy McMichael.

McMichael, who recently emerged on the trade block, was due to earn a $3 million roster bonus on Wednesday. In lieu of paying the money, the team is cutting him loose.

The veteran tight end should draw immediate interest in a relatively weak field of free-agent tight ends. But the red flag is his history of allegations of violence against his wife.

Then again, in today's NFL, that's like getting pulled over for having an expired inspection sticker, isn't it?

I would love to have this guy, but his history means that we won't.

 

[MadCardDisease]

McMichael is a great player. He would immediately start on our team. This in one guy I would love to see us go after if he truely is released!

EDIT: I just realized this is from PFT so the odds of him being released just went down.

 

[Heucrazy]

Wife beater = Not a Cardinal ever.

 

[D-Dogg]

Wife beater = Not a Cardinal ever.

Yep.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Is he considered an upgrade over Reggie Kelly ...??

 

[MadCardDisease]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/...lt=AgMVcMdyIVAWuPCis_rPv0n.uLYF?urn=nfl,25741

 

[BACH]

Is he considered an upgrade over Reggie Kelly ...??

He's a better TE, but if we're looking for a blocking TE, then Kelly is the choice.

 

[Espo]

Wife beater = Not a Cardinal ever.

I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Heucrazy]

I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.

Being a wife beater?

Or the Cards not signing him because he's one?

 

[Espo]

Being a wife beater?

Or the Cards not signing him because he's one?

The Cards not signing him because of that.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Wife beater = Not a Cardinal ever.

You are probably right:

Legal troubles

McMichael was arrested on July 9, 2005 in Columbia County, Georgia after witnesses told police he gave his wife a bloody nose. His wife, Cawanna McMichael, told police the contact with her husband was an accident as he was throwing some of her belongings out of their 1984 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Witnesses told police they saw McMichael throw his wife from the car. One witness told police he saw the athlete throw his wife away from the vehicle several times, according to the report. Cawanna McMichael was treated at the scene. According to the police report, McMichael had two glasses of wine and several beers before arguing with his wife, but he refused to take a field Breathalyzer test.[2]

This marked the second domestic incident for McMichael. Prosecutors decided not to file charges after McMichael was arrested in June 2004 and accused of hitting his wife. McMichael had been charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant woman, a second-degree felony that is punishable by up to 15 years in prison

 

[TheCardFan]

His wife, Cawanna McMichael, told police the contact with her husband was an accident as he was throwing some of her belongings out of their 1984 Cadillac Coupe de Ville.

It's abuse for an NFL player to make his wife drive a 1984 Caddy in 2005!

(*) Family violence is not a joke.

 

[Heucrazy]

The Cards not signing him because of that.

I figured that's what you meant.

 

[Heucrazy]

"McMichael had been charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant woman, a second-degree felony that is punishable by up to 15 years in prison "


OMG what a POS. I'm glad the Cards don't like guys like this.

 

[Jetstream Green]

don't want him

usually I'm not too much into character since football is a violent sport so you would expect some players to carry it with them off the field but ANYONE who hits a woman or any other form of physical abuse does not deserve the air they are breathing. Cardinals going after him...see Michael Pittman.

 

[kerouac9]

He's a developed version of Leonard Pope. He can't block. No thanks.

 

[Pariah]

I like McMichael a lot, but for some reason I get flashbacks of Freddie Jones...