Thread: Case For or Against Joe Mixon

If that young man wants or is willing to seek professional help and grow, there's no reason as to why his career should end. We cannot condemn people forever - it mitigates the likelihood of change.

Originally Posted by Von Kinger

If that young man wants or is willing to seek professional help and grow, there's no reason as to why his career should end. We cannot condemn people forever - it mitigates the likelihood of change.

I dont dispute any of that - a lot of my job is perpetrator work.

I just hate hearing incidents like this getting written off as "a young mans mistake" - or similar. It is deep rooted problem that requires both a desire to change, and a commitment to the process. If he has both, then great - but i still wouldnt take the chance on him.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

I dont dispute any of that - a lot of my job is perpetrator work.

I just hate hearing incidents like this getting written off as "a young mans mistake" - or similar. It is deep rooted problem that requires both a desire to change, and a commitment to the process. If he has both, then great - but i still wouldnt take the chance on him.

I feel you bro. It tends to be habitual behavior. I didn't feel like writing out a post hitting a bajillion qualifiers.

Originally Posted by Von Kinger

I feel you bro. It tends to be habitual behavior. I didn't feel like writing out a post hitting a bajillion qualifiers.

Not a bajillion

Just that it is an inveterate problem, not a superficial easy fix.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Not a bajillion

Just that it is an inveterate problem, not a superficial easy fix.

I'm verbose. If I did it it'd have been a bajillion qualifiers.

I haven't read anywhere that Joe Mixon has altercations with teammates, or he's a problem on the football field and locker room or even off the field. I don't see where he has anger issues. Granted I don't condone hitting a female, but I don't know what brought Mixon to his boiling point and then being assaulted by the female. I see this as being reactionary, and not a pattern of anger issues. He's a damn good RB, and I'd take him as a BRONCO.

If many of us were judged in our f*ck ups in life, very few of us would be employed.

Originally Posted by Nomad

I haven't read anywhere that Joe Mixon has altercations with teammates, or he's a problem on the football field and locker room or even off the field. I don't see where he has anger issues. Granted I don't condone hitting a female, but I don't know what brought Mixon to his boiling point and then being assaulted by the female. I see this as being reactionary, and not a pattern of anger issues. He's a damn good RB, and I'd take him as a BRONCO.

If many of us were judged in our f*ck ups in life, very few of us would be employed.

People who beat their partners do not have anger issues (domestic violence is not about anger) - many are really popular and described as great guys..............that does not mean they don't have deep rooted issues surrounding power and control and a fundamental insecurity in the vast majority of cases.

If he is assulting his partner at this level - it matters not what she has done to him, he already has a base line behaviour where he is comfortable to be abusive, otherwise this incident would not have been so extreme.

I really hope we pass on this dude

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

People who beat their partners do not have anger issues (domestic violence is not about anger) - many are really popular and described as great guys..............that does not mean they don't have deep rooted issues surrounding power and control and a fundamental insecurity in the vast majority of cases.

If he is assulting his partner at this level - it matters not what she has done to him, he already has a base line behaviour where he is comfortable to be abusive, otherwise this incident would not have been so extreme.

I really hope we pass on this dude

I thought it was a stranger that got in his face, not his girlfriend???

Show me where Mixon has a history of violence and being abusive, and I may agree, until then this is an isolated incident.

Originally Posted by slim

I thought it was a stranger that got in his face, not his girlfriend???

I was replying to a post that suggested his girlfriend done something to him that made him respond this way.

It was a random person.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

I was replying to a post that suggested his girlfriend done something to him that made him respond this way.

Oh, okay.

But in this case there is not a pattern of behavior, just a random event. So I am curious why you are so skittish about the Broncos picking him.

Originally Posted by Nomad

Show me where Mixon has a history of violence and being abusive, and I may agree, until then this is an isolated incident.

LOL - thats such a slim possibilty it is almost laughable.

On average, there will have been over 30 previous incidents of abuse before it becomes known outside of the relationship, and it almost never starts with a knock out punch

Originally Posted by slim

Oh, okay.

But in this case there is not a pattern of behavior, just a random event. So I am curious why you are so skittish about the Broncos picking him.

because it wont be a random event, violence like this is not a first time endevour

Originally Posted by slim

Oh, okay.

But in this case there is not a pattern of behavior, just a random event. So I am curious why you are so skittish about the Broncos picking him.

It's the one time it was caught on camera, but if he could so easily knock a female out like that, it stands to reason it's not the first time he's done it.