Written by Will Brinson at CBS Sports.com
The Ezekiel Elliott investigation continues to linger over the Cowboys 2017 season, with everyone holding their breath and wondering what the league office will decide to do, and when the league office will decide to do it. CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora has been reporting for nearly a year now that a suspension is a likely outcome, and the drumbeat for Elliott to miss time has gotten louder in recent weeks.
Many are expecting some kind of suspension for the 2016 NFL leading rusher, primarily because of all the different incidents that have popped up this offseason. Elliott had a March incident where he pulled down a woman’s top at a parade and was at the scene of an incident at a Dallas bar late one night in July where a physical altercation took place (Dallas police have since suspended that investigation).
According to Dan Patrick on radio Thursday, that accumulation is a problem for Elliott. But there is a bigger problem brewing, Patrick reported in a very interesting segment on his radio show. There is a faction of owners out there who are pressuring NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to punish Elliott in some form or fashion because of previous punishments handed out to other teams.
“This is what’s happening with Ezekiel Elliott right now, I was told yesterday. There are other owners — this happens every single day I was told, because I said how often do owners rat on other owners, and I was told every day,” Patrick said. “Somebody has something to say that someone is getting away with something.”
According to Patrick, the Elliott situation is a combination of several things. There is the Terrelle Pryor situation — Pryor was suspended by the NFL for something he did in college — and there is the Patriots situation — owners were coming to the NFL about pursuing punishment of Tom Brady for the Deflategate incident — and there is the general domestic violence approach of the league.
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