Chris Henry suspended for 4 games by NFL

[BengalszoneBilly]

I suppose this will all depend on if and when some team is dumb enough to sign him.

Chris Henry suspended for 4 games by NFL

NEW YORK (AP)—Wide receiver Chris Henry was suspended by the NFL on Thursday for four games but may play the final 12 games of the regular season for any team that signs him.

Henry was released by Cincinnati in April after his fifth arrest. Commissioner Roger Goodell had suspended Henry indefinitely following his latest arrest. The charges against him on that arrest were subsequently dropped.

The 25-year-old player, one of a number of Bengals in trouble with the law the past few seasons, then applied for reinstatement.

Henry may participate in training camp and exhibition games if he is signed. He will be eligible for reinstatement following the fourth game of the season.

Henry was suspended for the first eight games of the 2007 season under the league’s personal conduct policy. He returned to catch 21 passes for 343 yards and two touchdowns in eight games.

But the Bengals released him after he was accused of punching a University of Cincinnati student and breaking his car window with a beer bottle.

A jury failed to reach a verdict on an assault charge, resulting in a mistrial. Prosecutors dropped the case following unfavorable rulings by a judge before the retrial was to start

[COB]

The Cowboys maybe? Someone will sign him. It is hard for me to imagine that Henry has truly learned a lesson.

Full time gangster.

[ArmyBengal]

Henry = Dumbass !!!

Any team signing Henry = F*cking dumbasses !!!

WHODEY !!!

[semiotter]

Good things come to good people.....He should have learned this somewhere while he was growing up>>>

[kevinc1129]

I'm sure Jerry Jones has already been in contact with him. I could easily see him in a Cowboys uniform in Week 5... against guess who.

[HoosierCat]

Not that I have much sympathy for Henry, but he was suspended four games...why? For not being guilty?

[BengalByTheBay]

Not that I have much sympathy for Henry, but he was suspended four games...why? For not being guilty?

He was suspended for 4 games for not being a Bengal -- otherwise it would've been the customary 8.

[Kazkal]

He would got 16 if he was still a bengal,but Jones probably gave comish a handjob to make it 4 games.

[kingwilly]

the 4 games seems arbitrary to me....lots of conduct unbecoming going on with no recourse. Marshawn Lynch hits-runs and get nothing...granted he does not have Henry's rap sheet but it reeks of inconsistency.

Here is to hoping Henry "gets it" (while I am at it please add a winning littery ticker for me) and signs somewhere and can get his life on track...maybe a place like AZ, Denver, Seattle...there is probably no shortage of places that would pick him up.

[ArmyBengal]

Seems a bit odd all the way around... He was given 8 games last year and told by the commish that it was "his last chance". This year he gets 4 games for something that couldn't be proven. Not only that, if it was his last chance, don't you think it would have been more severe ?? Stupidity all the way by the looks of it !!!

WHODEY !!!

[BengalByTheBay]

Seems a bit odd all the way around... He was given 8 games last year and told by the commish that it was "his last chance". This year he gets 4 games for something that couldn't be proven. Not only that, if it was his last chance, don't you think it would have been more severe ?? Stupidity all the way by the looks of it !!!

WHODEY !!!

The current "get tough" era just gets more and more bizarre. IMO Henry should've gotten a much harsher penalty, or nothing. Goodell continues to make things up as he goes along and, since it's nearly impossible to predict what conduct will result in what penalty, it can't be having any real deterrent effect on any of the players. My favorite was the league's recent statement that they don't punish players for what they did prior to being drafted, which is totally false as we know with Rucker's year-and-a-half-after-the-fact suspension for the season opener last year. The NFL apparently thinks their fans are idiots who can't remember anything for more than a week and, judging from the fact that nobody seems interested in anything other than whatever Favre's doing right this second, they may be right.

[COB]

Count me as in the camp that can't figure out why Cheech didn't get at least a full season. He was on complete double secret probation, then he clearly veers off the righteous path, and, here comes the hammer, four games? Wow, with merciless punishment like that being meted out, Ray Lewis will probably have to taper off to fatally stabbing only one person at a time instead of two.

I thought the conduct unbecoming clause was to allow Goodell to base his punishments on reality, not on what our very unreliable judicial system decides. Henry walking out of that courtroom unconvicted pretty clearly influenced this weak punishment. The biggest tipoff is that Goodell waited until after the trial to hand down the punishment.

So far in his tenure Goodell has done a lot of grandstanding. He's got his chance to do something for the game during negotiations for the next CBA. When he visited Cincy a few days ago he moaned about rookie contracts/holdouts, etc. We'll see if he has the diplomacy to negotiate a new NBA style salary slotting. Most likely, he'll be so drunk on his "New Sheriff in Town" image that he'll antagonize the players into a work stoppage. Roger Goodell is a complete jackass.