Adam "Pacman" Jones Out for the Season

[bengals8580]

[quote name='CJandTO' timestamp='1288127826' post='934936']
I obviously hope that nothing bad happens to Pac, or he gets in any trouble or anything,
but it is kinda eerily similar to what happened with Slim.
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And the WVU connection

[The Scales]

Morgan Trent may not have the acceleration and handling of Adam Jones but I thought he played well when called upon for a rookie. I just hope Adam gets his neck healed up and good to go - he's on the hook to us for another season.

[Elijah15]

[quote name='bengals8580' timestamp='1288152208' post='935005']
And the WVU connection
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oh yeah they did play together in college

[Inigo Montoya]

Sucks that Jones is out for the season.

Glad he showed that he can still make plays.

He'll be back next year.

[oldschooler]

From John Thornton's blog ...



[size="5"][b]Pacman done for season[/b]
[/size]October 26th, 2010 | [url="http://www.allproblogger.com/category/bengals/"]Bengals[/url]

Just read some reports that Bengals CB Adam Jones is done for the season with apparent neck injury. I don't think its "all" doom and gloom for the Bengals for a few reasons. One, the starting corners are pretty good. Two, Morgan Trent has played a lot of ball over the past two seasons, so he has the experience, but the negative is he's definitely not the play maker that Adam is/was. Three, the Bengals major problems are tied to the front seven. While Adam gave the Bengals an excellent 3rd corner with play making ability, I see this team needing better play out of the front seven to have any chance of getting out of this 2-4 hole. Losing Adam will hurt the Bengals vs a team like the Colts, but I didn't see them beating the Colts with Adam Jones anyway. Now the starters have to stay healthy, teams with bad records can't afford to keep losing players.



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[mullichicken25]

he wasn't a make or break player but adam was an awesome luxary to have on D defense

i for one was completely blown away with how he played

thats a shitty injury, hopefully he has a good revocery

[oldschooler]

[size="5"][b]Neck injury cuts short CB Adam "Pacman" Jones' comeback[/b]
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JOE KAY AP Sports Writer October 26, 2010|4:15 p.m.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones will miss the rest of his comeback season with the Cincinnati Bengals because of a neck injury that might require surgery.

The Bengals placed Jones on injured reserve Tuesday with a herniated disk in his neck. Jones was injured late in a 39-32 loss to Atlanta on Sunday. [b]He was examined by a doctor who indicated that surgery was needed, agent Tom Hunter told The Associated Press.

Jones will see other specialists before deciding whether to have surgery, Hunter said. An operation wouldn't necessarily end his career.

"It looks very promising for him," Hunter said. "Do not ever count this man out. He is going to be back."
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Jones was out of football last year after Dallas let him go. The Bengals gave him what amounted to a last chance, signing him to a two-year deal in the offseason. Jones played well in preseason, winning the job as the third cornerback behind Leon Hall and Johnathan Joseph. He also returned punts and kickoffs.

He missed one game with a shoulder injury. With Joseph sidelined by an ankle injury, Jones started against the Falcons and had one of the game's pivotal plays, stripping receiver Roddy White after a catch and returning the ball 59 yards for a touchdown that put the Bengals ahead 25-24.

Jones was Tennessee's first-round pick in 2005. Six arrests and a dozen instances involving police intervention quickly scuttled his career. He was suspended for the entire 2007 season with Tennessee. The Cowboys gave him another chance, but he was suspended for six games in 2008 for an alcohol-related scuffle with a team-provided bodyguard.

When he signed with the Bengals, he knew he was getting a last chance to salvage his career.

[b]"He's learned to channel that energy in the right direction," Hunter said. "That's why I'm even more optimistic, as Adam is, that he's going to bounce back and be fine. Indications are that he's going to be OK."
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The Bengals also made a change in their backup tight ends on Tuesday, signing free agent J.P. Foschi and waiving Daniel Coats. Foschi started 10 games for the Bengals last season. He will be one of the backups to rookie starter Jermaine Gresham.





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[-GoBengals-]

[quote name='Bengals1181' timestamp='1288125187' post='934926']
who is: the same guy who was the #3 last year as a rookie on a team that went to the playoffs?
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he got owned regularly.. even by the raiders..

he just got picked on and lost..

trent didnt paly well at all last year.. probably wouldnt have drafted Ghee if he has. definetly wouldnt have picked up both Ghee and adam if he was...

[Bengals1181]

considering Hall, Joseph, Trent, Ndukwe and Roy Williams all missed practice today, I suddenly feel much much worse about Adam being out for the season.

[oldschooler]

[size="5"][b]Jones, Coats take different paths to similiar fate[/b][/size]
By Marc Hardin
FOXSportsOhio.com | BengalsInsider.com
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

On Tuesday, we saw the relentless, play-making, never-say-die Adam Jones suffer the undeserved fate of being placed on season-ending injured-reserve with a neck injury on the very same day we saw the end result of Dan Coats squandering his ability while with the Bengals.

Dan Coats, a Brigham Young graduate, married with a daughter and twin boys, with nary a blot on his personal character, needs Adam Jones' passion just as much as Adam Jones has needed the kind of maturity Dan Coats has displayed much of his life.

Jones is getting there, with marked improvements not too dissimilar to the strides the late Chris Henry was making before he died. Jones on the field was proving the Bengals correct about their hunch regarding his football skills, which are still there in ample supply after a year away from football and after wandering all the long and winding, and often lonely roads, Jones found himself traveling.

Jones wanted to play so bad on Sunday while making his first start in two years that he played with a herniated disc in his neck, and still was able to make his spectacular rip-and-grab on Falcons receiver Roddy White and take off on an electric 59-yard fumble return for a touchdown.

He played in five games and had 13 tackles, one interception, one forced fumble and two fumble recoveries.

Now, he's out for the season. It's a cruel world.

And Coats is just plain out. Go figure.

Nobody is smarter than fate, so it's left to divine interpretation as to why Jones gets the shaft after working his way back with such gusto while the way-more-together-off-the-field Coats gets dumped for lack of skills and focus.

It is curious how Coats never seemed to harness his personal maturity and let if fuel better performance on the field. Coats has developed a reputation for lacking good hands. He does not catch the football well, and he has been fumble-prone. Yet you never heard of many reports detailing how Coats was hooking up with any of the Bengals quarterbacks after hours while having football after football thrown to him so he could break his bad habits. He became so unreliable as a pass-catcher that he pigeon-holed himself to a role on special teams. Then, on Sunday, Coats was flagged for a holding penalty that wiped out a 45-yard kick return by, who else, Adam Jones.

On Tuesday, the two were linked again, with Coats out two days after his costly penalty, and Jones out presumably before career-saving surgery. Jones has a two-year contract with the Bengals.

Coats has an uncertain future.

It makes you wonder, how did this happen?

FOSCHI RETURNS: To fill the roster spot vacated by Coats, the Bengals signed free agent tight end J.P. Foschi, a 6-foot-3, 265-pound fourth-year tight end out of Georgia Tech. He played in 15 games with 10 starts for Cincinnati last season, posting career highs in catches (27), receiving yards (260) and touchdowns (two). But he became a free agent this past March when his contract expired, and the Bengals re-signed Coats.

Foschi was released by Buffalo in September. He is yet another in a long line of former Bengals who have returned for a second stint under head coach Marvin Lewis, who once again demonstrates that he prefers turning to his former players when in need. Even so, the Bengals should have kept Foschi over Coats during the offseason, to begin with. Either way, Tuesday's moves at tight end aren't exactly ringing endorsements for Chase Coffman.

PRESSLEY GETTING A LOOK: A league source said former Bengal fullback Chris Pressley was in town for a workout with the team after getting released by Tampa Bay last week. Pressley made the Bengals as a college free agent last year but was cut before the season started. He ended up with the Buccaneers but never played.




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[oldschooler]

[b][url="http://cincinnati.com/blogs/bengals/2010/10/27/thoughts-go-out-to-pacman/"][size="5"]Thoughts go out to Pacman[/size][/url][size="5"] [/size][/b]
Posted by [email="jreedy@enquirer.com"]jreedy[/email] October 27th, 2010, 7:09 pm


Adam "Pacman" Jones is expected to recover from his upcoming surgery for a herniated disc in his neck. He has one year left on his contract and the overwhelming sentiment from players and coaches are that he gets well quickly and that they can't wait to see him back.

Barring a major housecleaning, Jones is signed through 2011.

Jones had 13 tackles, an interception (in Week 2 against Baltimore) and two passes defensed. He also had the forced fumble and 59-yard recovery in the third quarter of last week's game against Atlanta. Jones was injured in the fourth quarter.

Said coach Marvin Lewis about Jones: "He's been working hard. He obviously had some plays that weren't very good in the game last week, but also made a big play, and he's made some. The thing is that you're sad for Adam. You're sad for everything he's gone through and then to not just have it taken away for a couple of weeks, but have it taken away for the rest of the football season. I think long term, things will work out fine.

" It's a tough thing on him. This is important to him, as he's shown, and I think to everybody here he's shown that as he's gone about his daily life. This is important and he's made such huge steps and strides."

Defensive backs coach Kevin Coyle said that Jones was improving as the season had gone along but noted that it was time for others to step up.

"I feel terrible for him," said cornerback Leon Hall of Jones. "He's been making good plays throughout the year. It's going to change a little bit but we expect someone to come in and make plays."

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