Zellner in Dallas

[Russ Smith]

FYI there's another reason Dallas let him walk after his contract was up. Zellner was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. His older brother was also arrested. the next week his brother testified that the drugs were his, Peppi knew nothing about them, and had been asked to visit him by their mother so that Peppi could convince his brother to clean his act up and get off drugs.

Dallas, still trying to shake the druggie team label, decided they had no interest in keeping him because they knew everyone would only remember the arrest, not that all charges against peppi were dropped.

by most accounts Peppi is a complete opposite of his brother and was wrong place wrong time.

 

[DRVNFAST]

Well heres what good ole' google found


http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ev=/images?q=peppi+zellner&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8

 

[CardinalChris]

Why is it everyone arrested for crack has the worst haircut ever in their booking picture?

 

[Russ Smith]

Well heres what good ole' google found


http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ev=/images?q=peppi+zellner&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8

Yep, the official story is his mother asked him to come home and help get his brother off drugs. He was in a known drug neighborhood because he'd gone out looking for his brother, found him, and picked him up, and then they got arrested.

I did some google searching last night and basically everyone on a board that was both Dallas and Washington fans said that nobody really felt Peppi had done anything wrong, but Dallas just figured he wasn't that good, there was no sense keeping the guy after the arrest further tarnishing their already horrible image with respect to drugs.

He lasted 2 weeks with Oakland, they brought him in because of injuries to Sam Williams, DeLawrence Grant and some others, but decided he couldn't play the hybrid rush end/LB role so he was going to be cut soon.

 

[football karma]

Setting aside the crack cocaine issue--

Zellner is a true 4-3 defensive end. Oakland is playing alot of 3-4 and Zellner never fit in that scheme.

 

[Russ Smith]

Setting aside the crack cocaine issue--

Zellner is a true 4-3 defensive end. Oakland is playing alot of 3-4 and Zellner never fit in that scheme.

Yep, they wanted him to be a hybrid that pass rushed at both DE, and LB, they decided he couldn't do it.

With both Grant and Williams injured they were looking at bodies to see if they could play that role.